He had squeezed into that shade, contorting his body into desperate shapes, kicking and scuffing the ground as fear and thirst took hold.Ĭam’s two brothers, Bub who lives on the family homestead, and Nathan who has a neighbouring property (three hours’ drive away naturally), have arranged to meet the police and ambulance there. The man had brawled, then dragged himself around as it moved. It was the only shade in sight and its blackness was slippery, swelling and shrinking as it ticked around like a sundial. His body was spotted by a helicopter pilot who called it in. When Cameron Bright, the eldest of three brothers is found dead at the Stockman’s Grave – a ‘local’ site of historic interest, it first appears he had planned to die there.
The Australian outback 1500km west of Brisbane, where your nearest neighbours are a three-hour drive away in the unforgiving 45 degree heat provides the setting for what is essentially a locked room mystery. They featured a Melbourne detective, Aaron Falk, however The Lost Man is a standalone. I’ll say it up front, Jane Harper’s third novel, The Lost Man, was totally unputdownable! Not having read her first two, The Dry and Force of Nature (which Gill reviewed for Shiny here), I will have to return to them and catch up.
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