'An atmospheric and nail-biting novel by one of Australia's finest writers. He deserves to be far better known and far more widely read' ―
The Times'Disher is brilliant at rural noir, capturing the stifling atmosphere of a small town where resentments simmer against the backdrop of an unforgiving landscape' ―
Sunday Times'An uplifting book, an utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity. If you enjoyed Jane Harper's The Lost Man, this novel is for you' -- Dervla McTiernan
'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' -- Chris Hammer
'A scorchingly good novel' -- Michael Robotham
'In this brilliant novel Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey' -- Jock Serong
'The stories are complex without being complicated, the writing pared down yet run with rich seams of character and place. The Hirsch novels are Disher's finest work' -- Dominic Nolan, author of
After Dark'In prose baked as hard as the sun-scorched outback, Disher summons up the muggy oppressiveness of a small town with years of buried secrets, a veteran crime writer who knows how to expertly tie together the disparate threads of his narrative' ―
Herald'Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction' ―
Sydney Morning Herald'Peace is a very impressive piece of crime fiction. There has been a lot of fuss about Australian rural noir in recent years, but few, if any, do it better than Disher' ―
Canberra Weekly
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Garry Disher is a genre-defining writer of Australian crime fiction, hailed as 'the gold standard for rural noir' by Chris Hammer, and as 'one of Australia's finest writers' by
The Times. He has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the German Crime Prize three times, the Ned Kelly Award twice, and his novel
The Sunken Road was nominated for The Booker. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Book Description
The bookseller favourite, must-read rural crime novel of 2019 now in a new format.
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