The Lost Man

Critics Review

• The Lost Man, like The Dry, is a study in isolation and its psychological and physical effects

  New York Times

• Harper’s The Lost Man is storytelling at its finest

  Daily Mail USA

• Harper’s The Lost Man is storytelling at its finest

  St Albans Review

• The fantastic Jane Harper’s third novel marks a highly anticipated return to the intense setting of the Australian outback

  St Albans Review

• A good crime writer creates a great sense of place and bestselling author Jane Harper is no exception. In her atmospheric third novel, the Australian outback is more than just a backdrop to the story, indeed it is the murder weapon itself

  Hampshire Living

• Against an unforgiving landscape, Harper’s story has the qualities of an epic, its plot specific, its themes universal

  Belfast Telegraph

• In seemingly no time Jane Harper has gone from excellent debut to consistent brilliance

  Weekend Sport

• The fantastic Jane Harper’s third novel marks a highly anticipated return to the intense setting of the Australian outback

  Watford Observer

• Jane Harper has gone from excellent debut to consistent brilliant

  Weekend Sport

• The pace is frenetic, the landscape epic and the red herrings so cleverly placed that your prime suspect changes by the chapter

  Nottingham Post

• Harper’s masterful narrative places readers right in the middle of a desolate landscape that’s almost as alien as the moon’s surface, where the effects of long-term isolation are always a concern. The mystery of Cam’s death is at the dark heart of an unfolding family drama that will leave readers reeling, and the final reveal is a heartbreaker. A twisty slow burner by an author at the top of her game

  Kirkus starred review

• Harper’s sinewy prose and flinty characters compel . . . Jaw-dropping denouement

  Publishers Weekly

• Jane Harper is at the top of the crime writing genre along with Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, and Tana French…[The Lost Man] slowly builds into one hell of a mystery! I will drop whatever I am doing to read a Jane Harper crime novel

  BookRiot

• The atmosphere is so thick you can taste the red-clay dust, and the folklore surrounding the mysterious stockman adds an additional edge to an already dark and intense narrative. The truth is revealed in a surprising ending that reveals how far someone will go to preserve a life worth living in a place at once loathed and loved

  Booklist

• In its portrayal of heat and harshness, power and its abuse, you’ll find a satisfying, page-turning account of wheat and tares growing up together

  Church Times

• So satisfying. You’re in the parched Australian outback from the first paragraph to the last

  Waitrose Weekend

• Jane Harper’s gripping third novel – after The Dry and Force of Nature – is her most accomplished yet: a moving story of loneliness, grief and redemption

  The Times