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Exiles

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I found this book slow, bogged down heavily with content that would've been more at home in women's fiction, small-town romances, or a family drama. The mother, Kim Gillespie, hasn’t been seen since, and the mystery is troubling to this tight knit community.

She was swaddled carefully in a clean wrap purchased from the state's leading baby-wares retailer, and tucked in with an artisan wool blanket, thick enough to have the effect of flattening out the bundle of her shape if placed in the right way. Aaron Falk, a Melbourne police officer of the AFP Financial Division, is off to attend a delayed christening of the child of one of his closest friends. Thank you to Jane Harper, Macmillan Audio with a fine narration by Stephen Shananhan, and NetGalley for the ability to listen to this story, which published on January 31, 2023.As he looks into Kim's case, long-held secrets and resentments begin to come to the fore, secrets that show that her community is not as close as it appears.

Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast.Joining the celebrations on a rare break from work is federal investigator Aaron Falk, who begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. A year ago, 39-year-old Kim Gillespie disappeared from the Marralee Valley Annual Food and Wine Festival, leaving behind her newborn daughter Zoey safely tucked away in a stroller under the Ferris wheel. Last year, Aaron Falk was in South Australia to be godfather to Henry, Greg and Rita Raco’s new baby. Jane Harper is the author of four internationally bestselling Australian mysteries, including The Dry.

From the small town in a drought in ‘the dry’, to the remote bushland of ‘Force of nature’, the parched cattle ranches of outback Queensland in ‘The lost man’, and most recently, the small Tasmanian beach town of ’ The survivors’.A strong sense of place and culture makes the book all the more rooted - there’s even a bit of AFL in this one. Tasked with trying to determine what would make Kim abandon her son, Aaron is also drawn to another woman.

Biography: Jane Harper is the author of four internationally bestselling Australian mysteries, including The Dry. As with her other books, this one is highly atmospheric, and the contrast of the serene and beautiful Australian wine country with the darker side of human nature is compelling.One doesn’t need to read them to read this book-- Exiles can be read as a standalone; however, the earlier books add to the layers and dynamics of Falk’s character.

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