“Winners train, losers complain.”

Not sure which anonymous winna made that bold claim, but I seriously gotta start to train.  Today I’m talkin’ winners because it’s my boy Steph’s birthday.  And the Dubs are beating the Jazz, which feels like birthday cake to me. I could write an effusive, gushy ode to Steph, but I’ll spare you because you’re here to read about books that—like Charlie Sheen—scream “winning!”

If you’ve read our posts for any length of time, you’ll know we think you can take Jane Harper’s books to the bank. Rae and I aren’t alone. Dave Baldacci and A.J. Finn have lavished praise for “the Australian crime author everyone seems to be reading.” I pre-ordered her February-release The Survivors. It won’t surprise you that once again Harper created an atmospheric setting in Evelyn Bay—a sometimes sleepy, sometimes turbulent beach town on the Tasmanian Coast. When a body is discovered on the beach, age-old secrets loosen. Harper’s latest involves a missing girl, a sunken wreck, and unanswered questions that, over a decade later, still fester and haunt the small fettered coastal town.

You’ll feel compelled to turn Jane Harper’s pages. While I think The Dry and The Lost Man top her latest, The Survivors is definitely worth a read. Let’s face it, Jane Harper is a trained winner.

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