Series: Hirsch series

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...

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...