Product DescriptionKieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn.When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge in the murder investigation that follows. A sunken wreck, a missing girl and questions that have never washed away...Praise for Jane Harper:'Queen of outback noir' Sunday Times'Harper has a fine gift for making her readers comfortable in inhospitable territory - psychological as well as physical' Daily Telegraph'Powerful, intriguing and recommended . . . Harper is wonderful at evoking fear and unease' The TimesReviewThe new crime novel from the Australian author dubbed "the queen of outback noir" byThe Sunday Times ?The Best Books of 2021 from The Times and the Sunday TimesSecrets, guilt and a sunken wreck. More from the Australian bestselling author ?The Times, Books to Look Out For in 2021A new book from Harper is always an event. Starting withThe Dry (2016), she has built an international reputation on a series of crime novels set in remote communities in Australia, a genre that has become known as rural noir. For her fourth novel, Harper has turned her attention to a different kind of isolation; a small town battered by the elements on the coast of Tasmania...It is the kind of set-up that Harper handles expertly ?Sunday Times Best Crime Novels for January 2021The Australian novelist Jane Harper is known for her excellent outback noir novels, in which the harsh, sun-bakedexpanses of the landscape play as much a part as her protagonists. Her latest, The Survivors, moves the action to the coast of Tasmania, and shows that Harper doesn't need sun and sand to write a compelling, terrifying thriller...Harper goes from strength to strength ?Observer, Thrillers of the MonthFundamental to the success of her previous novels such asThe Dry has been Jane Harper's subtle mastery of a sense of place, in particular rural Australia...Harper's writing is as unobtrusively effective as ever in setting the scene ?The TimesAustralian author Harper's debut,The Dry, won a host of awards when it came out in 2017.Her latest, set in a small Tasmanian coastal town, is the same mix of brooding atmosphere and clever plotting ?Good Housekeeping, This month's 10 books to read right now!The mistress of Australian noir returns with an emotional story about secrets beneath the surface of apparently respectable small towns...Both a mystery and a subtle examination of character.Once again Harper demonstrates how good she is at portraying the fear and menace that lurk in ordinary lives ?Daily MailMulti-layered, atmospheric and brilliantly written ?SunA dark, Tasmania-set tale oflong-ago disaster, barely buried guilt and possible murder ?iNews, 75 Best Books for 2021A latest slice of outback noir from Jane 'The Dry' Harper,the queen of Australian crime, in which a man is forced to reckon with the secrets of his past when a body washes up on the beach ?Metro, Top Eight Gripping New Novels in 2021Australian crime author, Jane Harper, has become an automatic must-read writer for me and her fourth novel,The Survivors, isfull of her trademark twists and turns and clever, atmospheric writing ?Sarra Manning, The Best Books to Read this January, RedJane Harper's superb new novel The Survivors exhibits all the qualities that make her such a compelling writer: a preoccupation with the clumsy, anxious joys and sorrows of adolescence and the awkward, haunted relationships of old friends who have nothing left in common but the past;an ability to unfold with steady, deliberate, unshowy brilliance a slow-burning