The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1408708213
- ISBN 13
- 9781408708217
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About This Item
First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2019 Little, Brown. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition and is not price clipped.
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On May 25 2024, CloggieDownunder said:
The Lost Man is a stand-alone novel by award-winning, best-selling Australian author, Jane Harper. In outback Queensland, Nathan Bright and his teenaged son, Xander abandon the fence-mending chore on his own property to return to the family's holding when they learn that Nathan's younger brother is dead.
Cameron Bright was meant to meet the youngest Bright brother, Bub, at Lehmann's Hill for a repair job on Wednesday. Instead, he lies dead against a remote gravestone in the blistering mid-December heat, his car, replete with food and water, parked nine kilometers away. His brothers are mystified.
Sergeant Ladlow, a city-trained stand-in for their local cop, Sergeant Glenn McKenna, asks about Cameron's mood over the previous weeks: it's clear he believes Cam walked away from his car intending to end his life, although how he could have attained that distance in the heat is a puzzle.
With just days until what will be a very subdued Christmas, the family gathers at the homestead, stunned at the news, incredulous, asking each other when they last saw Cam and was there any sign that this was in his mind.
A few things niggle at Nathan: that the two British backpackers employed as hands seem wary of police; the very particular way Cam's car keys were placed in his car; that their farm manager, Harry Bledsoe located the car so easily; and Bub's light mood in the face of such a grave situation. And Xander draws Nathan's attention to the thorough preparations Cam made for the planned repair, hardly the actions of a man intending suicide.
The presence of Cam's wife (now widow), Ilse is also distracting: there is a history between them, and despite his avoidance, the attraction is still there. Nathan's self-imposed exile, born of the same incident that saw him ostracised by the entire community of Balamara, means that he has missed a lot of what has transpired at his family's home. Over the next few days, the funeral and Christmas, what he sees and hears gradually reveals exactly what has happened.
Harper easily evokes the outback setting and the prevalent community attitudes. She gives the reader a tale that features isolation, loneliness and suicide risk, as well as domestic violence, coercive control and sexual harassment. Fans may note that the events of Harper's first novel in KIewarra, The Dry, intersect with the story at a certain point. Brilliant Aussie slow-burn crime fiction.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Lost Man
- Author
- Jane Harper
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1408708213
- ISBN 13
- 9781408708217
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 366
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