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S'està carregant… Exilesde Jane Harper
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A good plot with sympathetic characters in a charming locale. What more can you ask for? ( ) After reading the first 2 in this series, I was expecting an equally gripping page turner; unfortunately this was not the case. Reading this was like wandering round the festival in it's pages, there was no set plot line or path, and it felt like the story kept covering ground already covered. Needless to say, after aimlessly wandering through its pages, I laid this one aside. I will try again to read it at a later date, but for now it's back on the shelf. In Jane Harper’s fifth novel and third featuring Australian Federal Police officer Aaron Falk, at the invitation of friends Aaron has returned to the Marralee Valley, in the heart of South Australian wine country for a christening, and for the local food and wine festival. Among the people welcoming Aaron to the valley is Greg Raco, the police officer Aaron met and befriended in The Dry, whose family lives in the region. Greg’s brother Charlie runs a vineyard in Marralee. Charlie’s product features at the festival. Unfortunately, it is not an altogether celebratory occasion. Aaron was also there the previous year when an incident occurred that remains unresolved: the disappearance of Kim Gillespie, Charlie’s ex-wife, who was last sighted on the festival grounds and hasn’t been seen since. Inexplicably, chillingly, Kim was last spotted pushing a stroller holding her newborn daughter Zoe, and people were alerted to her disappearance when the stroller was found abandoned with the sleeping baby still inside. The only remnant of Kim to appear in the intervening year is a shoe discovered in a nearby reservoir, leading police to conclude that Kim drowned herself. Aaron does not want to get involved, but is pushed to do so by Zara, Kim and Charlie’s teenage daughter, who’s convinced her mother would never end her own life. Along the way, Aaron becomes involved in unravelling a cold case: six years earlier a man named Dean Tozer was killed on the road skirting the edge of the reservoir, a tragic hit and run, his body found in the water months later. Complicating matters is Aaron’s budding relationship with Gemma, festival organizer and Dean’s widow. The story Harper has devised offers bottomless family entanglements, lots of secrets and suspicious behaviour, and a multitude of avenues for investigation. As with her previous novels, Harper is as concerned as much with character as she is with story. The mystery of Kim’s disappearance is absorbing, and Aaron is a deeply sympathetic man whose own past includes tragedy and regret. But all of Harper’s characters exhibit the depth and vulnerability necessary for them come alive on the page, making Exiles a gripping read and perhaps Jane Harper’s best book yet. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx66HZEOP_Q/ Jane Harper - Exiles: A worthy junior effort, and with what I consider a surprise ending (no, not the murderer reveal). #cursorybookreviews #cursoryreviews Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper is back with a new mystery featuring Aaron Falk, the detective from the bestseller and major motion picture The Dry. At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her stroller, 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"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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