The Survivors (Signed Book)

by Jane Harper

Overview

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250817952
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Edition description:	Signed Edition
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,082,784
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jane Harper is the New York Times bestselling author of #1 international bestseller The Dry, Force of Nature, and The Lost Man. The Survivors is her fourth novel. Jane previously worked as a print journalist in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne with her husband, daughter, and son.

Editorial Reviews

11/02/2020

Sydney physiotherapist Kieran Elliott, the protagonist of this elegiac suspense novel from bestseller Harper (The Lost Man), has steeled himself for an emotionally turbulent visit to his hometown of Evelyn Bay, Tasmania, where he has returned to help his mother pack up the family home before his dementia-afflicted father moves into a nursing facility. Then the murder of college student Bronte Laidler, who had been spending her summer break creating art inspired by the area’s rugged coast, upsets the town. While locals profess that Bronte’s killer must be an outsider, many start wondering—as do the police—whether there’s any connection to a tragedy involving Kieran that tore apart the community 12 years earlier. That Kieran’s father may have been wandering on the beach the night of the murder raises the stakes. The distinctively Aussie array of stoic characters who are weathered, and in some cases warped, by their uncompromising environment more than compensates for a denouement that feels psychologically false. Harper expertly weaves past guilts with present grief. She remains a writer to watch. Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writers House. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Jane Harper:
“Ms. Harper is not one to drop a fact [...] without using it later. If you enjoy being hoodwinked…you’ll love Ms. Harper’s sleight of hand. Ms. Harper has made her own major mark.” —The New York Times

“Such a good storyteller… Harper has again raised the bar for emerging crime writers.” —Chicago Tribune
“Intense, deeply intelligent psychological thrillers that explore how our pasts – especially our childhoods – mold and disrupt our lives in the present.” —Christian Science Monitor

“Harper writes with precision and creates a tense atmosphere on the brink of combustion.” —Real Simple

“Book by book, [Harper is] creating her own vivid and complex account of the outback.” —New York Times Book Review
“Place is paramount, a multifaceted character that’s in turns brutal and breathtaking.” —Washington Post

“An author at the top of her game.” —Kirkus, starred review

“I think of Jane Harper as the Australian Louise Penny. Like Penny's Inspector Gamache series, Harper's books evoke a vivid sense of place, and are as much about her nuanced characters and the moral dilemmas they face as the mystery itself.” —BookRiot

“Harper works miracles. We’re lucky to witness them.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Harper evokes the complexities of love, hate, rage, emotional baggage, and a spot of redemption with a spare language that suits her story’s geographical surroundings – and her characters’ deeply interwoven and even more deeply imprinted relationships – down to a T.” —Seattle Review of Books

“Harper adroitly blends the tension and brisk pace of a thriller with the psychological acuity and stylish prose of literary fiction.” —Irish Independent

“In just a couple of years, Jane Harper has soared into the first rank of contemporary crime writers.” —Sunday Times (UK)

“Ms. Harper is not one to drop a fact [...] without using it later. If you enjoy being hoodwinked…you’ll love Ms. Harper’s sleight of hand. Ms. Harper has made her own major mark.” —The New York Times

“Such a good storyteller… Harper has again raised the bar for emerging crime writers.” —Chicago Tribune

“Harper writes with precision and creates a tense atmosphere on the brink of combustion.” —Real Simple

“Book by book, [Harper is] creating her own vivid and complex account of the outback.” —New York Times Book Review

“Harper works miracles. We’re lucky to witness them.” —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

From the Publisher

09/01/2020

In Armstrong's A Stranger in Town, Det. Casey Duncan learns that off-the-grid Rockton may be cashiered (50,000-copy first printing). Award-winning YA fiction author Cosimano's first adult novel, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, features a struggling suspense writer mistaken as a serial killer (100,000-copy first printing). In Finch's An Extravagant Death, Victorian-era sleuth Sir Charles Lennox takes his first trip to America (100,000-copy first printing). In Harper's The Survivors, Kieran Elliot returns to his coastal hometown and relives a childhood tragedy (125,000-copy first printing). Harrod-Eagles's Cruel as the Grave has Bill Slider doubting that a fitness trainer was killed by his girlfriend. Ide's Smoke marks the return of Isaiah Quintabe, the Sherlock Holmes of South Central Los Angeles. Mosley's Blood Grove puts popular protagonist Easy Rawlins front and center again (40,000-copy first printing). In Robb's Faithless in Death, Lt. Eve Dallas wonders if an angry lover really did kill sculptor Ariel Byrd (750,000-copy first printing). Todd's A Fatal Lie, Inspector Ian Rutledge seeks the identity of a stranger who tumbled from a Welsh aqueduct. Westerson's Spiteful Bones has Crispin Guest, London's famed Tracker, untangle the mystery around a bound skeleton found in a manor wall.

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