She won, picked up six-figure publishing deals in Australia, the United States and Britain, and went on to sell more than a million copies worldwide of her debut novel, “The Dry.” In April 2015, Harper entered pages she’d written over the past six months into the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. A journalist eking out a novel is cliché, but what happened next was so shocking, you’d have to call it a twist.
She was explaining why she didn’t let on about her manuscript, which she worked on for an hour before and after work each day. “Is there anything more boring than someone trying to tell you about the novel they’re working on?” Harper asked over lunch recently here in Sydney. But there was one project Harper didn’t talk about: She was writing a murder mystery inspired by “Gone Girl,” Agatha Christie and all the other thrillers she’d loved reading since childhood. Harper, who is now 38, liked to tell friends that she had “more self-improvement activities than a Victorian spinster,” busying herself with hobbies including sewing, ballroom dancing, tennis and piano lessons. SYDNEY, Australia - Four years ago, Jane Harper was a business reporter at The Herald Sun, a tabloid in Melbourne, Australia.
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