Harper worked as a print journalist for 13 years before writing her first novel, The Dry, which was published in 2016. In 2008 she returned to Australia to take up a reporting job at the Geelong Advertiser, then in 2011 became a journalist for the Herald Sun in Melbourne. Later she was a senior news journalist for the Hull Daily Mail.

She got her first job as a trainee at the Darlington & Stockton Times in County Durham. 154,385 Ratings A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After spending time working on her career, she moved back to Australia.Īfter graduating with a degree in English and history, Harper gained an entry-level journalism qualification. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Luke, is dead, his entire family murdered, Falk still isnt planning on going back. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Later, she attended the University of Kent and studied English. 'Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasnt been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. As a teen, Harper returned to the UK with her family and resided in Hampshire. There, she lived in the outer Melbourne suburb of Boronia, and eventually acquired Australian citizenship. Jane Harper (born 1980) is a British–Australian author known for her crime novels The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man, all set in rural Australia.īorn in Manchester in the UK, Harper moved to Australia with her family when she was eight.

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