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Force Of Nature is the follow up to The Dry, Jane Harper’s massively successful debut thriller.
Aaron Falk, the quiet and thoughtful detective from The Dry, is now working in Melbourne investigating financial crime. He and his partner Carmen are drawn into a missing person case after finding a link to a money laundering case they are working on.
During a team building exercise for the personnel of BaileyTennants, an accounting firm, a woman goes missing. The exercise concerned a four day orienteering trek in the deep forest of the Giralang mountain range. A group of men and a group of women from the firm, took slightly different routes but were due to rendezvous at the same time and place. The men returned on schedule. The women, after a long tense wait finally arrived scared, battered and traumatised, one of their number having gone missing.
The narrative flits back and forth from an account of the women’s frightening experience in the forest to the subsequent investigation by Falk and Carmen as they begin to unravel the tangled web of dysfunctional relationships that underpin the story. It seems unlikely that an outward bound experience had any chance of bonding this group!
This second in the Aaron Falk series is a good, solid read. Not sensational but quietly enjoyable, as the pace gradually picks up leading us to an exciting conclusion.
There’s a certain clarity in the writing of Jane Harper that I enjoy. I always know exactly where I am in the plot, can clearly see the characters and understand their motivations .......... all follows on logically and makes sense. There were no ‘Yeah, right, as if!!�� moments.
This has the makings of a superior crime series and I’m looking forward to my next Aaron Falk encounter.