It really is almost unimaginable to me to try and picture what life would be like. Harper has woven a captivating tale of the hardships of life on the massive cattle properties in outback Queensland, the isolation, the stress, the risks associated with supplies if there are floods. What is it that was troubling him? No-one seems to know. Nathan has grown accustomed to the isolation and now can go months without hearing another voice or seeing another person.Ĭameron seemed to have it all together lovely wife, two gorgeous daughters, a successful cattle property and the respect of the town. He had issues in town a couple of years ago and has been shut out and shunned, completely unwelcome in his hometown. He often leaves his radio off and is completely uncontactable, which concerns everyone who cares about him. He is living a life more isolated, and is deemed a much greater risk. Nathan is the older Bright brother, living on an adjoining property to the rest of the family and still about a 3hr drive away. Town is a number of hours away and there is only a single police officer, who happens to be hours in the other direction when Cameron is found. The cast of characters is quite small because the Bright cattle properties are so large, and so far out of town, that the only real interactions are the family and the staff. The Lost Man is a slow burning suspense that is completely character driven.

Cameron had been troubled in recent months, did he lose hope and walk into the unforgiving sun because if not the isolation leaves few suspects. The stockman’s grave casts a shadow that offered little hope for the middle Bright brother Cameron when he found himself under the relentless outback sun.Ĭameron’s death raises many questions and through the anguish of saying goodbye the family is left to try and unravel the mystery. A landmark that has been a part of the landscape for so many generations that no-one remembers the truth of the site. Two brothers meet at the border of their neighbouring cattle properties, at the legendary landmark that is the stockman’s grave. The Lost Man is set in the vast outback of Queensland.

The Lost Man is the third book by talented Australian author Jane Harper and it’s another 5 star read for me.

The lone man jane harper