Jane Harper Books in Order

Jane Harper is a British-Australian crime writer best known for the Aaron Falk trilogy, which launched with The Dry in 2016. That debut won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel and the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, putting the author on the map as one of crime fiction’s most significant debut voices of the decade.

Her novels are set in rural and regional Australia, with drought-stricken outback towns, remote cattle stations, isolated coastal communities, and this setting features prominently in every book. Jane Harper has also written four standalone novels alongside the Falk series.

This page lists all Jane Harper books in order, including the Aaron Falk series and standalone novels.

Latest Jane Harper Books

Last One Out, April 2026

Aaron Falk Series (Books in Order)

The Aaron Falk series follows federal financial investigator Aaron Falk, who repeatedly finds himself pulled into murder investigations in remote Australian communities. Set across rural Victoria, the Queensland outback, and South Australian wine country, the series is known for its strong sense of place, which usually features in every Jane Harper novel, and the slow-brewing psychological tension. Jane Harper confirmed that Exiles is the final Falk novel.

Reading Order

  1. The Dry, 2017
  2. Force of Nature, 2018
  3. Exiles, 2023

Standalone Novels

Jane Harper Biography

Jane Harper books in order

Jane Harper is a British-Australian crime author whose work includes the Aaron Falk trilogy and several standalone novels. So far, she has published six books since her debut in 2016.
Official website: janeharper.com.au

Born in Manchester, England, she moved to Australia with her family at the age of eight and spent several years in the outer Melbourne suburb of Boronia. As a teenager, she returned to the United Kingdom, where she studied English and History at University of Kent.

After college, she started working as a print journalist, first in County Durham and then as a senior reporter at the Hull Daily Mail. She returned to Australia in 2008, and was employed by the Geelong Advertiser and later by the Herald Sun in Melbourne. In mid-2010 she began writing short stories.

In 2014 a short story she submitted was selected for the Big Issue’s Fiction Edition, which gave her the push to write longer books. She applied for a Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course that year and developed what became The Dry, which would become the first book in the Aaron Falk series. The manuscript won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Unpublished Fiction before being published in 2016. The novel became a New York Times bestseller and won multiple major awards, establishing Jane Harper as one of the most awarded crime debut authors in recent years.

Her subsequent books have kept that same level of recognition. The Lost Manwon the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel and the Barry Award for Best Novel. Exiles won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Her books are published in more than 40 countries.

Jane Harper lives in Australia and writes novels full-time.

Jane Harper Book Adaptations

  • The Dry – adapted into the feature film The Dry (2021)
  • Force of Nature – adapted into the feature film Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)
  • The Survivors – adapted into the Netflix limited series The Survivors (2025)

Jane Harper Awards and Honors

Awards

  • The Dry – Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript (2015)
  • The Dry – ABIA Book of the Year / General Fiction Book of the Year (2017)
  • The Dry – Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Novel (2017)
  • The Dry – Davitt Award, Best Adult Crime Novel (2017)
  • The Dry – CWA Gold Dagger (2017)
  • The Dry – Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year (2017)
  • The Dry – British Book Award for Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (2018)
  • The Dry – Barry Award for Best First Novel (2018)
  • Force of Nature – Davitt Award, Readers’ Choice (2018)
  • The Lost Man – Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (2019)
  • The Lost Man – ITW Award for Best Paperback Original (2019)
  • The Lost Man – Barry Award for Best Novel (2020)
  • Exiles – Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (2023)

Nominations and Shortlists

  • The Dry – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2018)
  • The Dry – Macavity Award for Best First Novel (2018)
  • The Dry – Anthony Award for Best First Novel (2018)
  • Force of Nature – Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel (2018)
  • The Lost Man – Macavity Award for Best Novel (2019)
  • The Lost Man – Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller (2019)
  • The Lost Man – Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (2020)
  • The Dry – Barry Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade (2020)
  • The Survivors – Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (2021)
  • The Survivors – Indie Book Awards Fiction (2021)
  • The Survivors – ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year (2021)
  • The Survivors – Colin Roderick Award (2021)
  • The Survivors – Dublin Literary Award 2022 (2022)

Edited by

Marika

Founder of Mystery Sequels, a reference site focused on listing mystery and thriller books in the correct reading order. I maintain and update the site’s bibliographies as new titles are released, ensuring accuracy and consistency across author and series pages.

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13 Comments

    1. As far as I know, there is no novel published or to be soon rereleased titled The Cure by Jane Harper. The latest release will be Last One Out, published early 2026.

  2. Absolutely love reading Jane Harper books. I have read them all. With the exception of exiles. I will be looking forward to reading that one on holidays.

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