Force of Nature
by Jane Harper
I picked up Force of Nature at an airport kiosk, desperate for something to read on a flight when I’d left my kindle in the previous airport’s security line. Needless to say, I didn’t have high hopes for it. It turns out, I was very pleasantly surprised and enormously entertained!
The book starts out with four women coming back from a corporate retreat in the wilderness, battered and emotional. One woman didn’t make it back. With a police detective on the case, interviewing the four survivors and trying to find out what happened to the woman still at large, there’s a race against time to find her or merely her body.
Normally, I don’t like the use of flashbacks in a novel, but in this book, it’s not only necessary but exciting. The detective asks one woman a series of questions, and in the very next chapter, her flashback shows that her answers were lies. What is everyone covering up, and why? With a fast-paced plot, an interesting writing tone that is neither too descriptive nor too brief, and characters you’ll love to hate, this book will be your new best friend the next time you’re flying across the country.
The book starts out with four women coming back from a corporate retreat in the wilderness, battered and emotional. One woman didn’t make it back. With a police detective on the case, interviewing the four survivors and trying to find out what happened to the woman still at large, there’s a race against time to find her or merely her body.
Normally, I don’t like the use of flashbacks in a novel, but in this book, it’s not only necessary but exciting. The detective asks one woman a series of questions, and in the very next chapter, her flashback shows that her answers were lies. What is everyone covering up, and why? With a fast-paced plot, an interesting writing tone that is neither too descriptive nor too brief, and characters you’ll love to hate, this book will be your new best friend the next time you’re flying across the country.