Force of Nature -- Jane Harper

<p><b>Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018) <br>BookBrowse Best Books of 2018<br>Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel<br></b><b>BookRiot's 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018</b><br><b>Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018</b><br><b>Dead Good Reads shortlist for Best Small Town Mystery 2018</b><br><b><br>Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Dry, </i>asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?</b> <p/>When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. <p/>But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. <p/>Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder? <p/><b>"<i>Force of Nature</i> bristles with wit; it crackles with suspense; it radiates atmosphere. An astonishing book from an astonishing writer."</b><br><b>--A.J. Finn, author of <i>The Woman in the Window</i></b> <p/>Select praise for <i>The Dry</i>: <br>One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read. Every wo