Alice Russell y cuatros compa eras de trabajo participan en una actividad para ejecutivos en la zona boscosa de Giralang Ranges, al este de Melbourne. Los directivos de la empresa, una prestigiosa compa a de contabilidad que el agente federal Aaron Falk est investigando por un presunto delito financiero, pretenden con esta acci n fomentar el esp ritu de equipo. Sin embargo, todo se tuerce cuando Alice, testigo clave en las pesquisas y confidente de Falk, desaparece y ste tiene que sumergirse en el coraz n de una naturaleza exuberante y estigmatizada por el fantasma de un asesino en serie.

As , mientras las cinco mujeres caminan sin rumbo entre el fr o y la lluvia, y sobreviven a duras penas entre los silencios y las sombras de un bosque tan bello como terrible, Falk ir descubriendo no s lo que Alice dista mucho de ser apreciada por sus colegas, sino tambi n un trasfondo de recelos y heridas que ha dinamitado la armon a del grupo y ha convertido esta aventura en una insospechada trampa mortal.

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Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018)
BookBrowse Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel
BookRiot's 25 Best Suspense Books from 2018
Davitt Awards shortlist for Adult Crime Novel 2018
Dead Good Reads shortlist for Best Small Town Mystery 2018

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with?

When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path.

But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.

Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers. But did that lead to murder?