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Is part of Aaron Falk Jane Harper , 2016 series - author (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Exiles
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'At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing into the crowds.

'A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition to the family.

'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. Between Falk's closest friend, a missing mother, and a woman he's drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • A short review of this work appears in The New York Times 20 and 26 January 2023

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The Strange Case of Australian Noir Gillian Bouras , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 20 May vol. 34 no. 10 2024;

'The Way it is Now, by Garry Disher, Text Publishing, Melbourne 2021 Exiles, by Jane Harper, Pan Macmillan, Australia 2022 I have a friend who says that in her (not very) old age, all she wants to read is biography and crime/detective fiction. My reading range is somewhat wider, but I confess to an addiction to detective fiction, my mother having introduced me to the novels of Agatha Christie when I was about 11 years old. She herself had read all of them, and I think I have too. Mum was also a big fan of John Dickson Carr, he of the locked-room mystery fame, and Earl Stanley Gardner, creator of the fascinating Perry Mason. I no longer read Christie but remain a dedicated admirer of A. Conan Doyle. This devotion also started quite early, because Doyle’s famous story The Dancing Men was in a high-school anthology. Perhaps genes will out: my third grandson, aged 11, is a great admirer of a German series, which he reads in Greek: it involves (hooray) a detective who has various adventures and solves numerous crimes. Detective fiction as a category came fairly late to English literature. American Edgar Allan Poe is credited with writing the first novel in this genre: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which appeared in 1841. Charles Dickens is assumed to be the first writer to use the actual word ‘detective’, and a detective story is an important thread in his novel Bleak House, which appeared in serial form in 1852–53. His contemporary and friend Wilkie Collins is famous for The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868). The latter was lavishly praised by Dorothy M. Sayers, herself no slouch in the genre: she believed The Moonstone was the finest detective story ever written, and T.S. Eliot agreed with her.' (Introduction)
Jane Harper, Bestselling Author of The Dry, on Exiles, Writing in a Pandemic and the Rural Noir Renaissance Nicola Heath , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2022;

'In Exiles, bestselling author Jane Harper's latest novel, detective Aaron Falk (first introduced to readers in 2016's The Dry) travels to South Australia's wine country where he engages in a little post-COVID reflection over a glass or two of red.'  (Introduction)

Floods, Blood and Mysteries Robyn Walton , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 October 2022; (p. 22)

— Review of Exiles Jane Harper , 2022 single work novel
Floods, Blood and Mysteries Robyn Walton , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 October 2022; (p. 22)

— Review of Exiles Jane Harper , 2022 single work novel
Jane Harper, Bestselling Author of The Dry, on Exiles, Writing in a Pandemic and the Rural Noir Renaissance Nicola Heath , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , November 2022;

'In Exiles, bestselling author Jane Harper's latest novel, detective Aaron Falk (first introduced to readers in 2016's The Dry) travels to South Australia's wine country where he engages in a little post-COVID reflection over a glass or two of red.'  (Introduction)

The Strange Case of Australian Noir Gillian Bouras , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 20 May vol. 34 no. 10 2024;

'The Way it is Now, by Garry Disher, Text Publishing, Melbourne 2021 Exiles, by Jane Harper, Pan Macmillan, Australia 2022 I have a friend who says that in her (not very) old age, all she wants to read is biography and crime/detective fiction. My reading range is somewhat wider, but I confess to an addiction to detective fiction, my mother having introduced me to the novels of Agatha Christie when I was about 11 years old. She herself had read all of them, and I think I have too. Mum was also a big fan of John Dickson Carr, he of the locked-room mystery fame, and Earl Stanley Gardner, creator of the fascinating Perry Mason. I no longer read Christie but remain a dedicated admirer of A. Conan Doyle. This devotion also started quite early, because Doyle’s famous story The Dancing Men was in a high-school anthology. Perhaps genes will out: my third grandson, aged 11, is a great admirer of a German series, which he reads in Greek: it involves (hooray) a detective who has various adventures and solves numerous crimes. Detective fiction as a category came fairly late to English literature. American Edgar Allan Poe is credited with writing the first novel in this genre: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which appeared in 1841. Charles Dickens is assumed to be the first writer to use the actual word ‘detective’, and a detective story is an important thread in his novel Bleak House, which appeared in serial form in 1852–53. His contemporary and friend Wilkie Collins is famous for The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868). The latter was lavishly praised by Dorothy M. Sayers, herself no slouch in the genre: she believed The Moonstone was the finest detective story ever written, and T.S. Eliot agreed with her.' (Introduction)
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