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OverviewThe 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 random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick-his daughters still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that's just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend, and left no evidence at all. Auhl will stick with these cases until justice is done. One way or another. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Garry DisherPublisher: Text Publishing Imprint: The Text Publishing Company Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.224kg ISBN: 9781925773217ISBN 10: 1925773213 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 29 October 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews`Under the Cold Bright Lights is a gripping page-turner of a book with a truly likable hero. Auhl must wrestle with his own morality as he faces a flawed system that threatens to allow for more harm than it prevents. Award-winning author Garry Disher expertly weaves together Auhl's different cases and dilemmas to create an authentically Australian standalone police procedural with a memorably different kind of protagonist-one I'm hoping will be able to take his big heart and keen sense of empathy to more crime novels in the future.' * Criminal Element * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian * `There are many twists to a tale that opens with one of those closely observed vignettes of outer suburban life that Disher does so well...It's a riveting opening scene, setting in motion just one of the cases with which the amiable Auhl will deal in the most cathartic of ways.' * Age * `Well-crafted and leanly written, this tense novel grips from beginning to end.' * Canberra Weekly * `Victorian crime fiction king Garry Disher is a literary machine...Bring on the next case.' * Herald Sun * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian * `There are many twists to a tale that opens with one of those closely observed vignettes of outer suburban life that Disher does so well...It's a riveting opening scene, setting in motion just one of the cases with which the amiable Auhl will deal in the most cathartic of ways.' * Age * `Well-crafted and leanly written, this tense novel grips from beginning to end.' * Canberra Weekly * `Victorian crime fiction king Garry Disher is a literary machine...Bring on the next case.' * Herald Sun * Author InformationGarry Disher has published fifty titles-fiction, children's books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Peninsula Crimes series. His previous standalone novel, Bitter Wash Road, won the German Crime Prize in 2016. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |