It’s always fun when you read of a locale you are familiar with, even if was just a fleeting impression based on a few week's holidays.

But the christening didn't happen because the mother of Greg's niece went missing from this very festival, leaving her baby unattended in her stroller. 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. There are two mysteries for Aaron Falk to try to solve, but the book seemed more of a domestic/family drama and romance than a suspenseful thriller. Jane Harper gifts us with the presence of Aaron Falk, once again, in her third installment of this series.Falk will have to tread carefully if he is to expose the dark fractures at its heart, but sometimes it takes an outsider to get to the truth. Aaron is an intuitive detective who susses out clues that other people miss, and he eventually solves all the mysteries. Si tratta sempre di situazioni ben più terra terra: in questo caso, una donna scomparsa da un anno, a cui, con lo scorrere delle pagine, si aggiunge un incidente automobilistico avvenuto sei anni prima.

He leaned both hands on the railing and let himself relax for a minute, soaking up the sight in front of him. A linen square normally used as a sunshield was draped over the opening between the hood and the pram. There are a couple of things Harper had to accomplish in this final installment of the Aaron Falk series: present a mystery we could solve with him, and give the character a nice send-off.

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. Falk is at the heart of this gripping narrative, finding himself at a personal crossroads with his strong feelings for Gemma Tozer, devoted to her stepson, Joel, and who lost her husband, Dean, in a hit and run accident 6 years ago whilst he was out running, the driver had never been identified. However, there is an incident that occurred in The Dry that is referred to in this one that I consider a spoiler. Whenever I receive a new book by her, it immediately goes to the top of the books I am reading, and I set everything else aside.