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Garry Disher
A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.
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It’s a scorching hot summer on the Mornington Peninsula, and the police are preparing for the usual holiday madness. But this time it’s not just petty theft, and joyriding kids…
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The bookseller favourite, must-read rural crime novel of 2019 now in a new format
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The job’s a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Stake out the courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to…
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A stunning new standalone crime novel from one of Australia’s most revered writers
The latest gripping story in the popular Wyatt thriller series kicks off in Sydney and then unfolds on the beaches of Newcastle
Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a…
When hordes of 18-year-old schoolies celebrate the last of their exams, the Waterloo police expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. They don’t count on a brutal bashing that…
Day's End is the latest novel in the Australian rural crime series by critically acclaimed author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch.
Hirsch's rural beat is wide. Daybreak to…
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Superintendent McQuarrie is not well liked. Bullying bureaucrat, dapper golfer and Chamber of Commerce toady. But when his daughter- in-law is brutally murdered in front of her 7 year-old daughter…
A gripping prequel to Garry Disher’s Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019
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Australia’s favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in this new edition of Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.
'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' CHRIS HAMMER 'The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' THE TIMES 'A superb chronicler of cop culture' SUNDAY TIMES
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Day’s End is the next in the Australian rural crime series by critically acclaimed author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch
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The seventh installment in Garry Disher’s celebrated Challis and Destry procedural series, set in Australia A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very…
‘A superb chronicler of cop culture’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Disher is the equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke’ THE TIMES ‘Doesn’t get better than this’ DOMINIC NOLAN
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Port Vila Blues: Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, but can he make it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart? The…
The gripping new standalone mystery from one of Australia’s most celebrated crime writers
A toddler is missing. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea not far from Melbourne with an anchor strapped to his waist. Then a friend of Inspector Challis…
Australia’s favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.
This moving, powerful novel set in the wheat and wool country of mid-north South Australia is at once the story of a region, a town and a people-and of one…
Gripping page turning thriller from one of Australia’s most celebrated literary crime writers.
Set in the South Australian outback, this novel continues the adventures of master thief Wyatt, first introduced in the author’s earlier novel, Kickback . In this novel, the Sydney mob…
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A gripping, beautifully observed novel by the author of the award-winning, bestselling, THE DIVINE WIND.
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An edgy thriller that hits the road, from bestselling author and crime writer, Garry Disher.
A gentle and moving story of friendship and trust by the award-winning author of THE BAMBOO FLUTE.
A compelling and fast-paced story by the award-winning author of THE DIVINE WIND.
Out in that country the sun smeared the sky and nothing ever altered, except that one day a scrap man came by … HER name is scarcely known or ..
The trouble which dogged him in Kickback and Paydirt refuses to go away - the Mesics have his money, the Outfit want him dead. Wyatt meets the problem head on…
Reprint of a thriller first published in 1991, featuring Wyatt, a stylish bank robber whose inscrutable methods ensure he never gets caught - until he meets Anna Reid. The author…
A collection of award-winning short stories by Garry Disher spanning Australia, Africa and Europe, the extremes of loneliness and connection, and the myriad relationships that can bind people and places…
Clearly and compactly explains the fundamentals of good fiction-writing, with examples from a wide variety of known writers.
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It took months for psychiatrist Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband’s pressure to have sex with strangers at suburban spouse-swapping parties, and after attending a few, she is murdered…
SHORTLISTED FOR 1999 CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF 1999 NSW PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don’t…
Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice. Or a security van. But these days armed robbery means working with cocky young idiots or strung-out meth-heads-and Wyatt’s not…
Garry Disher s thrilling new junior novel in which an eleven-year-old girl, Maddie Finn, must outwit a gang of kidnappers and grow in courage and confidence.
What do you do if: an outsider tells you the teachings of Ratface and the White Leage are wrong? Max and Christina have grown up in the White League. But…
Beautifully and powerfully written, this is a look at the darker side of Australia’s past - and particularly the status of girls and women in our society - that will…
Six stories of suspense and the supernatural from one of Australia’s favourite writers, Garry Disher.
An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor wrapped around his waist. For DI Hal Challis this sparks the beginning of a mysterious series of deaths…
An evocative story of hardship, hope, respect and recognition, set during the Depression.
***ONE OF THE TIMES BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2021*** *** WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL *** *** THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB STAR PICK ***
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The latest novel from one of Australia’s most celebrated literary crime writers.
