Force of Nature
Force of NatureJane Harper
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Force of Nature (2017)

Jane Harper

Others: Leaning positive

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder? Five colleagues go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness-- but one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Australian Federal Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. As the investigation takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?

ISBN:
9781408708200
Length:
380 pages

Genres: thriller

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Loved it

I couldn't put this book down. I think I read it over the course of a weekend and I could do nothing but like think about this book over the course of that weekend because I wanted to know what was gonna happen.