Garry Disher

On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.

A Love Story

The Divine Wind

A must-read Australian rural crime novel, written by one of the masters of the genre.

Peace

A stunning new standalone crime novel from one of Australia’s most revered writers

The Way It Is Now

'The greatness of Garry Disher' - IAN RANKIN 'A superb chronicler of cop culture' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Disher is the equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMES ________________________________________ WHO SHALL INHERIT THE SINS OF THE FATHER? Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin's mother went missing, believed murdered. Her body has never been found, and his father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie has returned to the coastal town where his mother vanished, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site... and the past comes crashing in on Charlie. From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new standalone thriller, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.

Australia’s favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.

Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award

Consolation

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge. Today he’s driving an international visitor around: Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They’re checking out his last photo site, his last employer. A feeling that the stories don’t quite add up. Then a call comes in: a roadside fire. Nothing much—a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight. But two noteworthy facts emerge. Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence. And the body in the suitcase is not her son’s.

Day’s End

Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch—and perhaps the girl—that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules—even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines.

Port Vila Blues

Relegated to a backwater town after a whistle-blowing incident earns him powerful enemies, detective Paul Hirschhausen confronts more local crime than anticipated, including the murder of a 16-year-old girl. By the award-winning Australian author of the Inspector Challis mysteries.

Hell to Pay

Out in that country the sun smeared the sky and nothing ever altered, except that one day a scrap man came by ... Australia, 1909. A scrap man buys a scab-kneed three-year-old girl for nine shillings and sixpence. Her name is scarcely known or remembered. All in all, she is worth less than the coins counted into her father's hand. She bides her time. She does her work. Way back in the corner of her mind is a thought she is almost too frightened to shine a light on: one day she will run away.

A cold-case investigator will stop at nothing to find justice in this gripping standalone by Australian crime legend Garry Disher. The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, offand on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced he was murdered; the coroner is not so sure. Or the skeleton that's just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend, and left no evidence at all. Auhl will stick with these cases until justice is done. One way or another.

Under the Cold Bright Lights

An edgy thriller that hits the road, from bestselling author and crime writer, Garry Disher 'Disher is brilliant.' Sydney Morning Herald Leah Flood is on the run. The cops are after her and she has to keep one step ahead. The irony is that Leah is a cop too. But she's a cop who made a mistake Leah knows she's in the right, but that doesn't seem to matter to the guys who are chasing her. Then somewhere along a lonely road in the middle of nowhere, Leah meets Tess, who also has something to hide. Soon the two young women are being tracked by a ruthless killer But who is the intended target? And why? An edgy thriller for young people from bestselling author and crime writer Garry Disher

Two-Way Cut

Detective Inspector Hal Challis, who must apprehend a killer before he strikes again, is forced to first contend with the media, as well as his ex-wife, who is attempting to resurrect their marriage eight years after attempting to murder him.

The Dragon Man

A gripping prequel to Garry Disher’s Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019

Bitter Wash Road

Wyatt needs a job. A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time. So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten. He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful. But who is his client? Who else wants that painting? Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.

The Heat

Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong? Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away. Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.

Wyatt

An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. This sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. Challis finds some aerial possesion in the possession of his friend, Kitty, that link her to the murders.

Kittyhawk Down

Two classic Wyatt novels in one volume Wyatt. Cool, organised, enigmatic. A master criminal of the old school. But sometimes all the organisation in the world won’t stop you stealing the wrong thing. Like the Tiffany butterfly that wasn’t supposed to be in Cassandra Wintergreen’s floor safe. Beautiful? Trouble. It’s the start of a breakneck chain of betrayal, pursuit and revenge that will take Wyatt a long long way from home—and place him squarely in the sights of maverick cop Liz Redding. Garry Disher’s classics Port Vila Blues and Fallout—now for the first time in one irresistible, action-packed volume.

Two Barrels of Classic Wyatt

The Wyatt Butterfly

Wyatt, introduced in 'Kickback', returns in a new adventure set on the far side of morality.

Roman

Dreck

Menlo Beach, ein paar bescheidene Hütten zwischen holprigen Schotterpisten und struppigen Eukalyptusbäumen, Asbest in den Wänden, Meersalz in der Luft. Charlie Deravin ist vom Dienst bei der Kriminalpolizei suspendiert, tätlicher Angriff auf einen Vorgesetzten. Bei seinen einsamen Strandspaziergängen drehen sich Charlies Gedanken stets um den gleichen alten Fall: den seiner Mutter. Verschwunden, vor zwanzig Jahren. Der Hauptverdächtige: sein Vater. Damals freigesprochen, halten sich die Gerüchte hartnäckig, doch Charlie will nicht an die Schuld seines alternden Vaters glauben. Die nagende Ungewissheit treibt Charlie wieder zurück in die kalten Ermittlungen – und in die Abgründe seiner eigenen Familie.

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