RobMCFC
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1. The Stand - Stephen King - 10/10
2. Red Snow - Will Dean - 7/10
3. The Seventh Perfection – Daniel Polansky - 6/10
4. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig - 6/10
5. Crowfall - Ed McDonald - 7/10
6. Force of Nature - Jane Harper - 8/10
Second book I’ve read by this Australian author (although she was born in Manchester), but first I should write a bit about her debut novel for some context.
I read The Dry last year, and it is superb piece of writing that introduces Aaron Falk, a policeman with the Melbourne financial crimes unit. The story unfolds in two timelines – in the present, Falk goes back to his hometown for the funeral of a friend who apparently committed suicide after killing his family. Tension is high because of the killings and also because the farming community is suffering a terrible drought (hence the title of the book). Falk is not well liked in the town, the reasons for which we see in the past timeline. This book is 9/10 stuff, some great twists and red herrings and a real sense of time and place. Can’t wait to see the highly rated film adaptation starring Eric Bana, which is already out in Australia but doesn’t yet have a UK release date.
Anyway, on to the latest book, Force of Nature, which doesn’t quite hit the heights of The Dry.
Five women go on a team building exercise in the Australian bush but only four come back out. As search teams are scrambled to find the missing woman, Aaron Falk also arrives on the scene because the missing woman was an informant in his latest financial investigation. It’s a decent book that doesn’t hit the heights of The Dry.
2. Red Snow - Will Dean - 7/10
3. The Seventh Perfection – Daniel Polansky - 6/10
4. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig - 6/10
5. Crowfall - Ed McDonald - 7/10
6. Force of Nature - Jane Harper - 8/10
Second book I’ve read by this Australian author (although she was born in Manchester), but first I should write a bit about her debut novel for some context.
I read The Dry last year, and it is superb piece of writing that introduces Aaron Falk, a policeman with the Melbourne financial crimes unit. The story unfolds in two timelines – in the present, Falk goes back to his hometown for the funeral of a friend who apparently committed suicide after killing his family. Tension is high because of the killings and also because the farming community is suffering a terrible drought (hence the title of the book). Falk is not well liked in the town, the reasons for which we see in the past timeline. This book is 9/10 stuff, some great twists and red herrings and a real sense of time and place. Can’t wait to see the highly rated film adaptation starring Eric Bana, which is already out in Australia but doesn’t yet have a UK release date.
Anyway, on to the latest book, Force of Nature, which doesn’t quite hit the heights of The Dry.
Five women go on a team building exercise in the Australian bush but only four come back out. As search teams are scrambled to find the missing woman, Aaron Falk also arrives on the scene because the missing woman was an informant in his latest financial investigation. It’s a decent book that doesn’t hit the heights of The Dry.