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I loved Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry and was happy to see the return of her beloved character Aaron Falk… Harper’s vivid depictions of Australia make for a rich, moody and atmospheric reading experience.”
It's been a year already since the disappearance of Kim Gillespie. She and her family were attending a festival in South Australia. Nothing added up from there on. Kim was last seen pushing her baby's pram to a corner of the activities.....and then walking away. Someone found the baby unattended as evening set in. No Kim then. No Kim now. No clues then. No clues now. The police found Kim's shoe in a reservoir near the fairgrounds, and concluded the missing woman committed suicide. However Kim's body was never found, and Kim's teenage daughter Zara - from a previous relationship with Charlie Raco (Greg's brother) - refuses to believe Kim killed herself.Raco’s brother Charlie use to be married to Kim and they have a daughter together. This close-knit family is still struggling with her disappearance and how out of character it was for Kim to leave her baby that night. Harper presta molto cura al luogo, al paesaggio, la natura, l’ambientazione: non si tratta di semplice “atmosfera”, riesce a rendere questo elemento parte della storia, come se fosse un personaggio. Forse per questo nei suoi libri i personaggi camminano molto, si muovono spesso a piedi, oltre che in macchina.
Beneath the ferris wheel at the Marralee Valley Annual Food and Wine Festival is a pram bay, for attendees to leave their prams, pushchairs, bikes, scooters, etc. But, when the festival closes, there is a single uncollected pram, and on closer inspection a technician discovers six week old Zoe Gillespie sleeping within – her thirty nine year old mother Kim nowhere to be found. During last year's Food and Wine Festival, a woman named Kim Gillespie disappeared, leaving her baby daughter Zoe alone in her stroller. In the small town of Marralee in South Australia's vineyard region, not far from Adelaide, the annual festival was about to get underway once again. But this year was to be a little different, as a young woman and her family searched for answers to a woman who went missing the previous year from this same festival. Kim Gillespie's tiny baby, Zoe, was found snuggly covered in her pram, safe and secure, but alone. And her mother was nowhere to be found. Kim's teenage daughter Zara was leading the quest for information, hoping that something would come to light that hadn't the year before. The christening in Raco’s home town of Marralee Valley in the South Australian wine region was originally scheduled for a year ago but cancelled when Raco’s brother Charlie’s ex-wife KIm disappeared suddenly at the town’s wine and food festival, leaving her six week old baby alone. With the investigation into her disappearance still open, Raco and Falk find themselves taking another look at the investigation and unravelling the secrets and lies of a small town and its people. Though she makes a point of careful plotting and neatly tied-up threads, Harper’s books are as much about Australian society and the pressures and dangers of the country’s landscape as they are about finding missing people and solving murders...The ability to spot subtle warning signs of a troubled soul is probably Falk’s greatest gift as an investigator, leading him to look for answers about Kim’s fate very close to home.”
Once again Harper proves that she is peerless in creating an avalanche of suspense with intimate, character-driven set pieces that are as Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Publishers for sending me an ARC of Exiles in exchange for an honest review. The kind of crime novel you move into rather than just reading it - a wholly absorbing set of mysteries, a cast of characters that feels entirely real and a setting so vivid you can practically smell the breeze through the bushland. Aaron Falk is the still centre of the novel, a quiet presence like no other in crime fiction. Exceptional in every way." Jane Casey The recognition came to Falk all at once, followed by a jolt as he realized the little girl now smashing a fistful of dried fruit toward her mouth must be Zoe Gillespie, who up until this moment had remained frozen in his mind at six weeks old. Jane Harper scrive thriller particolari, che si distinguono: c’è poca violenza e poco sangue, pochi morti; c’è un fatto, o più, del passato che stende ali di colpa e inquietudine sul presente; c’è un presente che va sistemato riconciliandosi col passato, risolvendo cosa e come è davvero successo tempo prima.
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