In 2014, Big Issue published one of Harper's short stories. Visiting friends in South Australian wine country, Aaron Falk finds himself drawn into the investigation of the disappearance of a woman a year ago at the local food and wine festival, and the hit-and-run death of a man a few years before. In Harper's fourth murder mystery, the death of a young woman in a Tasmanian coastal town unearths questions around events during a storm 12 years earlier, when two men drowned and a girl disappeared. The police find nothing in Cameron Bright's death from dehydration to suggest foul play, and the investigation is carried out informally by the dead man's elder brother Nathan. Harper's third murder mystery is set in south-west Queensland on a large cattle station. Falk has been investigating the company for financial irregularities, and the woman was his secret informer. A group from a Melbourne tech company go on a retreat in the mountains, where Alice Russell, one of the women in the group, disappears while navigating the Mirror Falls trail. Harper's second thriller is set in the thickly forested mountains north-east of Melbourne, again featuring Federal Agent Aaron Falk. Falk teams up with a local detective and tries to uncover the truth behind Luke's sudden mysterious death, only to find more questions than answers.

A Federal Agent, Aaron Falk, returns to his old hometown to attend the funeral of his childhood best friend, Luke. The Dry, Harper's first novel, is a thriller set in a fictional town five hours west of Melbourne. 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. Career Īfter graduating with a degree in English and history, Harper gained an entry-level journalism qualification. After spending time working on her career, she moved back to Australia. Later, she attended the University of Kent and studied English. 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. Early life īorn in Manchester in the UK, Harper moved to Australia with her family when she was eight. 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.

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