Garry Disher

A thrilling new standalone set in regional South Australia, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors. Sanctuary follows Grace, a thief—a good one. She was taught by experts and has been practising since she was a child. Her expertise lies in small, high-value items—stamps, watches—and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it's a solitary life, always...

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 study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in...

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 himself cut off without backup, there are two possibilities. Either he’s found the...

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 thinks a child may be in danger at home, and a father is on the rampage at the primary school. Hirsch knows how situations...

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. From daybreak to day's end, he navigates dirt roads and dust, handling every issue that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus,...

Day's End is the next in the Australian rural crime series by critically acclaimed author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch. Hirsch's rural beat is wide. From daybreak to day's end, he navigates dirt roads and dust, tackling every problem that troubles small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson. In the time of the virus, Hirsch...

It’s been a peaceful Christmas for Paul Hirschhausen, the only cop in Tiverton. A grass fire, a stolen ute, the usual welfare checks. The big event: Brenda Flann driving her Falcon into the front bar of the pub. Then Hirsch is called to a strange, vicious incident in Kitchener Street. And Sydney police ask him to look in on a...

Now in smaller format paperback, the thrilling standalone from one of Australia's most esteemed crime writers. Grace is a talented thief ready for a normal life. Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel's rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different. A weekday job. A place to call home. But someone...

Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin’s mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; her body was never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now, Charlie’s back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and on permanent leave from his marriage. After two...

A stunning new standalone crime novel from one of Australia's most revered writers. Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out cop named Charlie Deravin. Charlie is living in his family's holiday house, on forced leave since he made a mess of things at work. Things have never...

The latest gripping story in the popular Wyatt thriller series kicks off in Sydney and then unfolds on the beaches of Newcastle. 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...

The Heat by Garry Disher follows Wyatt, a character in need and on the lookout for a lucrative job. A bank heist or a security van hold-up would fit the bill, as long as he can avoid working with arrogant amateurs or unstable meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. Wyatt reaches out to a reliable contact from his past who has...

The gripping new standalone mystery from one of Australia's most celebrated crime writers, longlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way—and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of...

The job's 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...

At the height of the Great Depression, with farmers walking off the land and the city’s creeks lined with kerosene-tin shanties, a young mother is taken by a shark in the shallows at Henley Beach. Her grieving husband flees north with his baby son to the town of Pandowie, far from the treacherous ocean. In time, the boy will have...

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? Port Vila Blues is Wyatt's fifth heist, this time leading him to a reckoning far from home. The Fallout: The Fallout takes off where Port Vila Blues left Wyatt - on...

Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without D. I. Challis. But Hal Challis is a thousand...

A small bushfire, but nasty enough for ice cooks to abandon their lab. Fatal, too. But when the bodies in the burnt-out Mercedes prove to be a pair of Sydney hitmen, Inspector Hal Challis's inquiries into a local ice epidemic take a darker turn. Meanwhile, Ellen Destry, head of the new sex crimes unit, finds herself not only juggling the...

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 aren't safe. The Dragon Man introduces Detective Inspector Hal Challis, who is up against it. The media are demanding...

When hordes of 18-year-old schoolies descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the last of their exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. Maybe even drink-spiking and sexual assault. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. The victim is connected, and now Detective Inspector Hal Challis is facing interference...

Kittyhawk Down is the second novel featuring Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. For Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this marks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence, becoming the target of a...

An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. For Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and becomes the target of a massive manhunt. Meanwhile, Challis's own emotional life is strained, and some...

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 the corner...

Eva's Angel takes readers on a journey to Italy, where Eva Hicks arrives seeking love and art. In the enchanting, ever-changing light of Tuscany, she instead encounters gunshots echoing across the terraced hillsides, crosses paths with the enigmatic painter Nye, and grapples with a sense of her own misplaced faith. Among the other students, Matt grows increasingly suspicious of their...

When Louis's family moves from the city to a small coastal town, he finds himself at odds with everything around him. He's an outsider at his new school, where he's at the mercy of the two school bullies, and he misses the city and his friends. The only person Louis can talk to is the 'windmill man', Mr Chatters. Then...

Maddie Finn lives with her mother above a converted stable in the grounds of a big house owned by the gloomy Harold Delamore. It's their cosy burrow against the world, and Maddie's favourite task is to walk Sal, Mr Delamore's rare, prize-winning dog. But one day, Maddie and her mother are given two months' notice by the trouble-making Delia Delamore,...

It's a great feeling to break away from home, school and the restrictions of your childhood years, to test yourself in the world at last. First flight, first love, first job, first holiday alone, first place to call your own. You feel as if anything could happen, and you're prepared for it. You're no longer restless, you're flying free. But...

Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers 1993'[An] evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age story' - Publisher's WeeklyTwelve-year-old Paul is a solitary boy, interested in music and conscious of the troubled spirits of those around him - especially his father. He has few friends because he lives on a farm. The town kids...

'an outstanding piece of writing...a powerful novel...' Reading TimeFriendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed... Set against the backdrop of World War II, four teens growing up in the pearling town of Broome form a deep...

Hirsch is one of my favourite characters...Unmissable. - HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, author of Dirt Town Disher is one of this country's finest writers. - TONY BIRCH Disher is the gold standard for rural noir. - CHRIS HAMMER Mischance Creek is the next in the Australian rural crime series by bestselling author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch. Hirsch is checking...

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...

Now in a smaller format paperback, Mischance Creek is the latest in the bestselling Australian rural crime series featuring beloved local copper Hirsch. 'Hirsch is one of my favourite characters...Unmissable.' Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Town 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' Chris Hammer 'Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' Tony Birch Hirsch is checking firearms....

Publisher's Weekly describes it as 'heart-pounding suspense'. What do you do if an outsider tells you the teachings of Ratface and the White League are wrong? What if Ratface shuts you away behind an electric fence, or if he expects you to help him mould another child in the ways of the White League? For Max and Christina, the White...