As always, Harper skillfully evokes the landscape as she weaves a complicated, elegant web, full of long-buried secrets ready to come to light.

Overall, there were elements that I absolutely liked: the normalcy of Nate’s family and what he went through after coming back from the war.I was curious to see how things would come together but I didn’t truly care what happened and wasn’t rooting for anyone. There is a large bronze statue at the base of the cliffs, titled “The Survivors” that looks out to the sea. The Survivors is another slow burn from Jane Harper that quickly morphs into a gripping, unputdownable story. But Nate's heroic efforts quickly unleash a huge ball of trouble for him and his family because the bank heist was perpetrated by a Russian mafia head, all for the sake of breaking into a safe deposit box. However, I probably should have known better and realised very quickly that this book certainly wasn't one that would make me settle!

Jane Harper, after just two of her books, The Lost Man and The Survivors, ranks up there with my favorite authors.The MC is endearing as he tries to cope with some big issues and yet he needs to save his family from destruction. Gets in tussle with hero who has been shot in shoulder of arm weakened by ALS yet hero manages to gain advantage in struggle for a weapon they both grab at once. On the very next day, poor Bronte’s dead body is found on the shore feeds the town’s people with more questions and gossips because Liam was the last person saw her alive. She builds foreboding tension and suspense from the very start that keeps you captivated and hanging on until the very end. The Survivor starts with a bang, literally: a 747 crashes in a field near Eton (UK) killing all the people on board except one person, the co-pilot, who surprisingly manages to not only survive but leave the plane with his own legs, almost unharmed.

If you love stand-alone thrillers that pull on your emotions while biting your nails sitting on the edge of your seat, you will love Gregg Hurwitz's novels.Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide. Setup: A whole bunch of secrets in a small Tasmanian coastal town, and Kieran digging through the past while we all try to work out who's responsible for the recent death of a girl. Gregg Hurwitz’s SURVIVOR sends me into manic-depressive swings, the turbo-charged plot producing a high so exhilarating from the very first page that meth might as well be Valium, and writing—oh, that kid’s prose—that makes me weep with the knowledge that I could never be that good, that lyrical, in my dreams. Jane Harper has a wonderful ability to paint the scene so vividly that the seaside location is suffused with sights and sounds, the wind and smell of the sea, the uneasiness walking across the beach at night, and the looming threat of being stranded in the caves as the tide comes in.

His novels have been shortlisted for numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 30 languages. Schulman sets himself a complex technical challenge; he tells his story in two parallel narratives, one running backwards through the day of the funeral, the other moving forwards through childhood summers to the climactic point of the catastrophe, whose exact nature is only hinted at until the very end. A slow moving, deliberate thriller that delves into the lives of those haunted by the past tragedies.The community will be thrown into morning again with the discovery of a murdered young woman found on the beach. It's all jumbled together so there is the fun element of trying to untangle everything and come to your own conclusions. He hears gun shots from inside and peeks in the window where he sees armed men robbing the bank, He quickly becomes a hero and kills five of the robbers unwittingly setting himself up for the revenge of a Ukranian mobster who needs an item from a safety deposit box in the vault. I love the use of the dangerous caves which hide as much as the people do and are an excellent metaphor for submerged secrets.