*** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD ***
*** A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME PICK OF THE MONTH ***
'A scorchingly good novel' - MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' - CHRIS HAMMER
'An utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity' - DERVLA MCTIERNAN
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AN ACT OF INEXPLICABLE CRUELTY. A FAMILY DESTROYED.
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 his community work - welfare checks and a light touch - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a vehicle, and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch's life has been peaceful.
Until he's called to an incident on Kitchener Street, a strange and vicious attack that sickens the community. And when the Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living on a forgotten back road, it doesn't look like a season of goodwill at all...
A hugely atmospheric police procedural set in the dust of the Australian outback. Perfect for readers of Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Dervla McTiernan.
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'In this brilliant novel, Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey' - JOCK SERONG
'An atmospheric and nail-biting novel by one of Australia's finest writers' -THE TIMES
'Disher is brilliant at rural noir, capturing the stifling atmosphere of a small town where resentments simmer' - SUNDAY TIMES
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October 8, 2020 -
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- ISBN: 9781782836995
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- ISBN: 9781782836995
- File size: 535 KB
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- English
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September 26, 2019
In Peace, Garry Disher returns to the rural South Australian town of Tiverton and to the hero of his 2013 novel Bitter Wash Road, Constable Paul ‘Hirsch’ Hirschhausen. Hirsch has been exiled to the one-man police station after accusations of whistleblowing on members of his department in Adelaide, his own reputation tainted by their corruption. A tough, smart, honest cop—one of the most likable lawmen in crime fiction—most of Hirsch’s days are spent doing welfare checks and attending to small, nuisance offenses and the occasional drug overdose as the ice epidemic runs its horrific course. Keeping the peace, in other words. Then, over Christmas, the unthinkable happens: a brutal, bloody incident involving the massacre of Nan Washburn’s horses, and an equally violent incident involving a stand-offish family living outside of town that brings the metropolitan police into Hirsch’s territory. The cast of Peace is strong and the local colour is as vivid as ever. Disher was portraying the harshness of the Australian landscape long before Jane Harper’s The Dry ignited a new wave of Australian crime fiction, and fans of her work, and Chris Hammer’s Scrublands, will find much to enjoy here. Disher provides the complete mystery package: unobtrusively slick detection, plenty of surprises and mounting thrills, with a protagonist that demonstrates a remarkable level of humanity.Simon McDonald is a bookseller at Potts Point Bookshop
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