![]() She’s a stickler for rules in some areas. ![]() ![]() Jill Bailey is not just the company’s chairwoman but also the CEO’s sister. Alice Russell is a sharp-tongued executive and loving mother who is eager to return to Melbourne in time for her teenage daughter’s award presentation. Harper avoids that trap by populating her story with a solid cast of women, each thoroughly realized.Īll five of the hikers at the center of the story are women. Plunking one complex female character at the center of a story otherwise populated by tissue-thin saints and shrews does no one any favors - least of all the reader. ![]() What happened to the fifth? How were the other four involved in what happened? How does her disappearance relate, if at all, to an ongoing investigation led by Federal Police Carmen Cooper and Aaron Falk? Each answer leads to new questions as the story unfolds.Īs the trend of “female-oriented crime fiction” rampages on, it has become abundantly clear that not all such thrillers are created equal. Five hikers on a corporate retreat go into the woods together. And you’ll enjoy the book a lot more because of it. ![]() Nearly all of the main characters of Jane Harper’s new Australia-set thriller, Force of Nature - a loose follow-up to The Dry - are more unpleasant than pleasant, more misbehaving than misunderstood. The fascinating and flawed women we so enjoy in fiction might not be much fun to spend time with in real life. ![]()
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