Australian Queen of Crime Jane Harper is the internationally bestselling author of The Dry and we're absolutely delighted to be welcoming her to the beautiful St. Mary's Church in Stockport for the launch of her gripping new thriller Last One Out - a immersive and deeply atmospheric standalone crime novel that reveals the explosive truth about what happened to a young man who vanished five years ago in a small town in the Australian outback. Jane will be in conversation with Phil Williams and the talk will be followed by an audience Q&A and book-signing. 

Tickets are £8.00 each or £20.00 including a copy of Last One Out. 

Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm) 

About the book:

He had been here, that was clear from the marks in the dust. And he had been alone.

In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday.

Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.

Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam's disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.

But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?

About the author:

Jane Harper is the author of The Dry, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2017. Rights have been sold in 27 territories worldwide, and film rights optioned to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne.