Peace: The second book in the bestselling Australian crime series

Awards:   Long-listed for Bookseller's Choice for Adult Fiction, Australian Booksellers Association 2020 (Australia) Long-listed for Booktopia Favourite Australian Book 2020 (Australia) Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2020 (Australia) Long-listed for General Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards 2020 (Australia) Runner-up for International, Deutscher Krimipreis 2020 (Germany) Short-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2020 (Australia)
Author:   Garry Disher
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781922330123


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   04 August 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Long-listed for Bookseller's Choice for Adult Fiction, Australian Booksellers Association 2020 (Australia)
  • Long-listed for Booktopia Favourite Australian Book 2020 (Australia)
  • Long-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2020 (Australia)
  • Long-listed for General Fiction Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards 2020 (Australia)
  • Runner-up for International, Deutscher Krimipreis 2020 (Germany)
  • Short-listed for Colin Roderick Award 2020 (Australia)

Overview

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 lookin on a family living on a back road outside town. Suddenly it doesn’t look like a season of goodwill at all.

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Author:   Garry Disher
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781922330123


ISBN 10:   1922330124
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   04 August 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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'Disher is one of Australia's leading crime writers. ...Disher is brilliant at rural noir, capturing the stifling atmosphere of a small town where resentments simmer against the backdrop of an unforgiving landscape.' * The Times * 'A very, very good novel.' -- David Gaunt * RN Bookshelf * 'Garry Disher shows why he's the master...A novel of sweat-inducing authenticity.' * NZ Listener * '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 * 'This is one cracker of a book and there will be little peace until you turn the final page.' * Weekly Times * 'Peace is rural noir at its best.' * Canberra Times * 'There is very little peace in this gripping country cop procedural.' * David Astle * 'A thrilling mystery with plenty of surprises.' * 2SER Tuesday Book Club * 'If you love Aussie rural noir, this one's for you.' * New Idea * 'Disher is a master of crime and this has to be one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a while.' * Mark Rubbo, Readings * 'Peace is marvellous, and Garry Disher, as always, is in award-winning form, creating a town so vivid and hot you could swelter just reading it - and you'd look askance at everybody you pass on the street.' * Readings * '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: unobtru sively slick detection, plenty of surprises and mounting thrills, with a protagonist that demonstrates a remarkable level of humanity.' * Books+Publishing * 'Mark Peace down as one to look out for, and if you have not already done so, give Bitter Wash Road a read, you won't be disappointed.' * Jeff Popple * 'Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction in terms of its form, content and style.' * Sydney Morning Herald * 'I loved Peace. It is an 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 * 'Peace tells the story of a cop exiled to a wounded town in South Australia's dry country. In this brilliant novel Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey.' * Jock Serong * 'There is no peace for a good man when the mercury rises, tempers fray and violence simmers. This is a scorchingly good novel.' * Michael Robotham * 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' * Chris Hammer *


'A very, very good novel.' -- David Gaunt * RN Bookshelf * 'Garry Disher shows why he's the master...A novel of sweat-inducing authenticity.' * NZ Listener * '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 * 'This is one cracker of a book and there will be little peace until you turn the final page.' * Weekly Times * 'Peace is rural noir at its best.' * Canberra Times * 'There is very little peace in this gripping country cop procedural.' * David Astle * 'A thrilling mystery with plenty of surprises.' * 2SER Tuesday Book Club * 'If you love Aussie rural noir, this one's for you.' * New Idea * 'Disher is a master of crime and this has to be one of the most enjoyable books I've read in a while.' * Mark Rubbo, Readings * 'Peace is marvellous, and Garry Disher, as always, is in award-winning form, creating a town so vivid and hot you could swelter just reading it - and you'd look askance at everybody you pass on the street.' * Readings * '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: unobtru sively slick detection, plenty of surprises and mounting thrills, with a protagonist that demonstrates a remarkable level of humanity.' * Books+Publishing * 'Mark Peace down as one to look out for, and if you have not already done so, give Bitter Wash Road a read, you won't be disappointed.' * Jeff Popple * 'Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction in terms of its form, content and style.' * Sydney Morning Herald * 'I loved Peace. It is an 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 * 'Peace tells the story of a cop exiled to a wounded town in South Australia's dry country. In this brilliant novel Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey.' * Jock Serong * 'There is no peace for a good man when the mercury rises, tempers fray and violence simmers. This is a scorchingly good novel.' * Michael Robotham * 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' * Chris Hammer *


Author Information

Garry Disher has published fifty titles across multiple genres. His last standalone novel, Bitter Wash Road, won the 2016 German Crime Prize, a prize he has previously won twice. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

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