Force of Nature

Jane Harper Littlebrown. Out Thursday No one looks forward to a corporate team-building exercise, but a group of Australian women find their adventure descends into real horror. Lost in an isolated area, once the hunting ground of a notorious serial killer, tensions worsen and the desperate colleagues turn on one another. Then, one of the party disappears. The delight of this spell-bindingly suspenseful thriller lies in the slow revelation of what really happened to the missing woman, Alice, a whistleblower exposing corruption at the firm. This follow-up novel shows Harper is a crime writing force to be reckoned with.