

While they grieve Cameron’s loss, suspicion starts to take hold, and Nathan is forced to examine secrets the family would rather leave in the past. Nathan, Bub and Nathan’s son return to Cameron’s ranch and to those left behind by his passing: his wife, his daughters, and his mother, as well as their long-time employee and two recently hired seasonal workers.

But something made him head out alone under the unrelenting sun. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harperīrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." -Stephen King sucks you into a world where nothing is ever what it seems and everyone has secrets. PRAISE FOR THE LOST MAN 'Harper secures her place as queen of outback noir with this haunting family mystery' Sunday Times 'Her best book yet' Evening Standard 'Harper's intricate, beautifully woven mystery. Did he choose to walk to his death? Because if he didn't, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects. The Bright family's quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. They are at the stockman's grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was alive, he didn't look peaceful in death. ' haunting family mystery' Sunday Times 'A riveting, deeply atmospheric read' Mail on Sunday ' Just as good - perhaps even better - than Harper's excellent thrillers The Dry and Force of Nature' Observer He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked.
