Jane Harper

The Survivors (eBook, ePUB)

'Without doubt one of the finest crime writers at work today' Chris Whitaker

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Produktbeschreibung

'I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries... and The Survivors is the best yet. There are cave scenes that will freeze your blood' Stephen King

'With The Survivors, Jane Harper proves she's unquestionably the real deal' Val McDermid

'Without doubt one of the finest crime writers at work today, a new Jane Harper novel is the highlight of my reading year. She has this knack of painting such beautiful scenes, only to thread them with such menace, such sheer atmospheric terror. Phenomenal' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge in the murder investigation that follows. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

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Praise for The Survivors

'You won't put this novel down until you've uncovered every last skeleton in the closet. I loved it ' Louise Candlish

'A new book by Harper is always an event' Sunday Times

'Once again Harper demonstrates how good she is at portraying the fear and menace that lurk in ordinary lives' Daily Mail

'Multi-layered, atmospheric and brilliantly written' Sun

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408711965
• Artikelnr.: 59399243

Autorenporträt

Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man. Her books are published in more than forty territories worldwide, and The Dry has been released as a major film starring Eric Bana. Jane has won numerous top awards including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and now lives in Melbourne.

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Instant New York Times bestseller, #1 International Bestseller

"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries....and The Survivors is the best yet. There are cave scenes that will freeze your blood." -Stephen King

"As always, Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light."
-New York Times Book Review

"Harper is to Australia what Tana French is to Ireland, a writer whose psychologically rich plots are matched by a deep understanding of place."
-Washington Post

"Another suspenseful thriller...And in Harper's proven style, the story is not only atmospheric, it delves deep into the psyche of main character Kieran Elliott and the townsfolk, unearthing dark secrets, hidden guilt and simmering social tensions."
-Herald Sun

"The latest stunner from Jane Harper...[She] expertly raises the reader's pulse throughout the narrative, insinuating what happened that day but only revealing the truth slowly as Kieran comes to see past and present in a new light."
-Booklist, starred review

"[Harper is] a master at creating atmospheric settings, and it's easy to fall under her spell...A layered and nuanced mystery."
-Kirkus

"Jane Harper has created a tightly told, beautifully written, and suspenseful novel... It is a novel of guilt, remorse, injustice, and regret, all skillfully woven together seamlessly into a realistic work of literary power I cannot recommend highly enough."
-Deadly Pleasures

"Harper expertly weaves past guilts with present grief. She remains a writer to watch."
-Publishers Weekly

"Jane Harper creates an impressive landscape that serves to illustrate how the experience of place inevitably shapes the lives of those who live there."
-Sydney Morning Herald

"It's now clear Harper has a gift...every book has a distinct landscape that plays a central part in the plot made possible by her uncanny knack of bringing scenery to life."
-Daily Telegraph

Praise for Jane Harper:
"Ms. Harper is not one to drop a fact [...] without using it later. If you enjoy being hoodwinked...you'll love Ms. Harper's sleight of hand. Ms. Harper has made her own major mark." -The New York Times

"Such a good storyteller... Harper has again raised the bar for emerging crime writers." -Chicago Tribune
"Intense, deeply intelligent psychological thrillers that explore how our pasts - especially our childhoods - mold and disrupt our lives in the present." -Christian Science Monitor

"Harper writes with precision and creates a tense atmosphere on the brink of combustion." -Real Simple

"Book by book, [Harper is] creating her own vivid and complex account of the outback." -New York Times Book Review
"Place is paramount, a multifaceted character that's in turns brutal and breathtaking." -Washington Post

"An author at the top of her game." -Kirkus, starred review

"I think of Jane Harper as the Australian Louise Penny. Like Penny's Inspector Gamache series, Harper's books evoke a vivid sense of place, and are as much about her nuanced characters and the moral dilemmas they face as the mystery itself." -BookRiot

"Harper works miracles. We're lucky to witness them." -A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Harper evokes the complexities of love, hate, rage, emotional baggage, and a spot of redemption with a spare language that suits her story's geographical surroundings - and her characters' deeply interwoven and even more deeply imprinted relationships - down to a T." -Seattle Review of Books

"Harper adroitly blends the tension and brisk pace of a thriller with the psychological acuity and stylish prose of literary fiction." -Irish Independent

"In just a couple of years, Jane Harper has soared into the first rank of contemporary crime writers." -Sunday Times (UK)

"Ms. Harper is not one to drop a fact [...] without using it later. If you enjoy being hoodwinked...you'll love Ms. Harper's sleight of hand. Ms. Harper has made her own major mark." -The New York Times

"Such a good storyteller... Harper has again raised the bar for emerging crime writers." -Chicago Tribune

"Harper writes with precision and creates a tense atmosphere on the brink of combustion." -Real Simple

"Book by book, [Harper is] creating her own vivid and complex account of the outback." -New York Times Book Review

"Harper works miracles. We're lucky to witness them." -A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author