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My beautiful Street Library just keeps on giving. Among the recent deposits: Jane Harper's 'The Lost Man', which I immediately whipped out of the box and set on the pile for holiday reading... then almost dreaded reading it. I loved 'The Dry' (2016), but another outback noir? Yeah nah. But when I finally got to it, it was a cracker. Taut, grim but deeply satisfying; set in an otherworldly landscape of radical isolation fraught with logistical complexities as fascinating as the unfolding plot. I'll happily send this one back out into the Street Library for another reader's pleasure.