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The Survivors (2020), Jane Harper's fourth murder mystery, is set in Tasmania, Australia. The murder of a young woman in a Tasmanian coastal town turns out to be connected to the events during a storm 12 years earlier when two men drowned and a girl disappeared.
Highly anticipated yet a stand-alone mystery The Survivors was published in September 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. It went straight to No.1 on the national bestseller list (Nielsen BookScan) after a massive debut week. It was released in the United Kingdom on January 21 and the United States on February 2.
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets...
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.
Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.
When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...
The plot revolved around family, friendship, town mentality, rumors, superstition, illness, the growth and maturity that occurs between teenage and adulthood, and how major life-altering events can shape people for the better. The story interweaves major social issues of toxic masculinity, peer pressure, the downside of social media, sexism, narcissism, the damaging effects of hook up culture.
The Survivors --The novel is a tribute to the lives lost over a century ago when the SS Mary Minerva sank. Three imposing, iron, life-size figures erected on the furthered rocks out to sea. they stand guard overlooking the site of the shipwreck. The locals and tourists of the beachside Tasmanian town, Evelyn Bay, recall the dreadful date the storm hit. Rumored to be the worst weather in eighty years is caused widespread destruction and anguish, and worst of all it claimed three lives.
"As always, Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light."-- The New York Times
"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
About the Author
Jane Harper is the author of the international bestseller The Dry, Force of Nature, and The Lost Man. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide. Jane has won numerous top awards including:
- CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel
- British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
- Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year
- Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year.
The major motion picture adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana as Aaron Falk has taken more than $16 million at the Australian box office since its release on New Year's Day.
Jane was born in Manchester in the UK and moved to Australia with her family at age of eight. After spending six years in Victoria, she moved back to the UK with her family and lived in Hampshire before studying English and History at the University of Kent in Canterbury. On graduating, she completed a journalism entry qualification and got her first job as a trainee on the Darlington, Stockton Times in County Durham. In 2008 she moved back to Australia.
Jane worked as a print journalist for 13 years. In 2014, she submitted a short story which was one of 12 chosen for the Big issue's annual Fiction Edition. That inspired her to pursue creative writing more seriously, breaking through with The Dry at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2015.
Jane lives in bayside Melbourne with her husband and their two children.
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Rating: 4.2/5
Author: Jane Harper
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publishing Date: September 22, 2020
Edition Language: English
Genre: International Mystery and Crime, Small Town and Rural Fiction, Murder Mystery, Thriller
ISBN-10: 1408711990
ISBN-13: 978-1408711996
Pages: 384 (Hardcover)
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