I'm gonna be honest, I wish I had read this before The Lost Man. It has a lot of similarities (rural Australian farmland, same town vibe, main character has a bad past in the town so everyone hates him, investigating a death of a farmer who had a lot of secrets), but I enjoyed it more. It's just reading it so soon after The Lost Man kind of had me thinking about that one. I'd recommend them both, but maybe give it a decent amount of time before reading the two.

I love Jane Harper. I'm going through all her books now, whenever my library holds are coming in, and they're all fantastic. Just genuinely wonderful thrillers. She writes complex characters and interesting stories, combined with enough drama for a good, slow paced mystery. I'm always so invested in her books.

I struggled a little with the ending. It felt a little too much like spoon feeding information for my taste. Like not everything needs to be tied up neatly with a little bow. She could've done less and I think it would have hit harder.

But I loved this. Read it in a day and then immediately started the sequel. I still think The Survivors is my favorite of her books, but this is a very close second. All her books are so worthwhile. If you're interested in a slow paced thriller, I can't recommend this enough. She's one of my favorite thriller authors now, and I only discovered her two months ago.