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Bitter Wash Road (Rejacketed) by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: HIRSCH SERIES BOOK 1
'Shots fired on Bitter Wash Road...' Hirsch is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now hated and despised. Exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. Threats. Pistol cartridge in the mailbox. So when he heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate gunfire and finds ...Show more
Consolation (#3 Paul Hirschhausen) by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Hirsch Ser.
In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a teacher who thinks a child may be in danger at home. A father on the rampage ov ...Show more
Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: HIRSCH SERIES BOOK 3
In Consolation, Tiverton's only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in- a teacher who thinks a child may be in danger at home. A father on the rampage ov ...Show more
Day's End by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Hirsch Ser.
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 ...Show more
Day's End by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Hirsch Ser.
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 day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed ...Show more
Her by Garry Disher
Category: Fiction
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 remembered. All in all, she is worth less than the nine shillings and sixpence counted into her father's hand. She bides her time. She does her work. Way back in ...Show more
Kill Shot: A Wyatt Thriller by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Wyatt Ser.
Some people just work better alone. Wyatt's one of them. He's been getting by on nice quiet little burglaries-one-man jobs-when he gets wind of something bigger. A corporate crook, notorious Ponzi schemer, set to face court and certain jail time. He's about to skip bail the old-fashioned way- on a luxu ...Show more
Peace by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: HIRSCH SERIES BOOK 2
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work--welfare checks and working bees--is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Flann ...Show more
Peace by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: Bitter Wash Road #2 | Reading Level: very good
Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work - welfare checks and working bees - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Fla ...Show more
Sanctuary: From the international bestselling author of the Hirsch series by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller
Grace is a thief: a good one. She was taught by experts and she's been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items--stamps, watches--and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It's not the life s ...Show more
The Dragon Man (Peninsula Crimes #1) by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller
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. There's a killer on the old Peninsula Highway and women alone are not safe. Detective Inspector Hal Challis is up against it. ...Show more
The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher
Category: Crime | Thriller
The latest standalone crime novel from one of Australia's most revered writers, now in a new format. Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shack-believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie's back liv ...Show more