The Survivors
by Jane Harper, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Stephen Shanahan, Macmillan Audio
I don’t think this is Jane Harper’s best work, although I have read only two of her books. The first book I read was her first book The Dry, and I enjoyed it a lot. The major difference was that Tge Dry focused on one character who was dragged into an investigation of a murder against his wishes. He eventually solved the crime after following various leads.
The Survivors, on the other hand, deals with a number of individuals who are affected by two incidents, one some deaths from a storm twelve years prior, and another death that has occurred recently but under similar circumstances. The story meanders back and forth from the prior incident to the current one and finally comes to an end when all of the information is revealed.
This novel takes place in Tasmania where I had visited briefly in 1970 so I was curious about the location. It was interesting in that regard, but I didn’t enjoy it otherwise. The characters weren’t that interesting, and the plot just seemed to wander. There wasn’t much of a twist in the end and the solution to the mystery was ho-hum. Hopefully, some of her other books will be much better.
The reader did a nice job as I enjoy a book about Australia a lot more when it’s read with an Australian accent.
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