I thoroughly enjoyed Exiles, which is an engrossing read with several twists and turns and, more unexpectedly, a hint of romance. It is told mostly from Falk’s point of view, which is gently curious with a sharp nose for anomalies. Exiles is an intricately plotted mystery, the third in the Aaron Falk series. This was planned as a trilogy, but please Jane Harper, give us more! I'm not yet ready to say goodbye to Falk.

While visiting a friend to attend a christening, AFP Officer Aaron Falk finds himself caught up in the case of a woman who went missing a year ago during a town festival and in an unsolved murder from years ago. Joining the celebrations is federal investigator Aaron Falk. But as he soaks up life in the lush valley, he begins to suspect this tight-knit group may be more fractured than it seems.While Falk investigates this mystery, he has a new romance brewing on the sidelines and big decisions that could affect his career and overall life. I loved the sense of family that surrounds Raco and Rita, whom we first encountered in The Dry. Falk is welcomed, even embraced, in this family and it stirs the feeling that maybe work isn't everything, that maybe there could be more if he would just open himself to the possibility. And here’s another fact for you. It took nearly six months to find my dad in that water, but in the end they still found him. Take a guess how many people in the past fifty years have drowned in the reservoir and never been seen again?’ Harper skillfully ratchets up the tension in this powerful, slow-burning portrait of small-town life... high quality, atmospheric crime fiction' – Mail on Sunday But late at night, as the festival was closing, a worker found a lone pram with baby Zoe in it. Kim Gillespie’s baby. Henry’s christening was postponed, and the search was on. The shoe was found.

Harper's third murder mystery is set in south-west Queensland on a large cattle station. The police find nothing in Cameron Bright's death from dehydration to suggest foul play, and the investigation is carried out informally by the dead man's elder brother Nathan. [11] The Survivors [ edit ]I'm not sure if it was me or Ms Harper's writing, but I found this book exhausting. From the first word I was looking for clues. The story centred around a food and wine festival in rural South Australian wine country, but the fact that two people, one confirmed dead from 6 years ago during the same festival, the second a missing woman from the previous year. So for me, the story came second to the search for clues and finding out just what happened. It was a spring night and the South Australian sky was clear and starry with no rain forecast, but the weatherproof hood had been pulled over to full stretch. A linen square normally used as a sunshield was draped over the opening between the hood and the pram. A casual glance would not now see the sleeping girl at all.