Jane Harper (born 1980) is a British Australian author known for her crime novels, including The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man, all set in rural Australia.
[7] A Federal agent, Aaron Falk, returns to his old hometown to attend the funeral of his childhood best friend, Luke.
Falk teams up with a local detective and tries to uncover the truth behind Luke's sudden mysterious death, only to find more questions than answers.
[8] Harper's second thriller is set in the thickly forested mountains north-east of Melbourne, again featuring Federal Agent Aaron Falk.
The police find nothing in Cameron Bright's death from dehydration to suggest foul play, and the investigation is carried out informally by the dead man's elder brother Nathan.
[11] In Harper's fourth murder mystery, the death of a young woman in a Tasmanian coastal town unearths questions around events during a storm 12 years earlier, when two men drowned and a girl disappeared.