Awards

• Long-listed for Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel 2018 (Australia)
• Short-listed for Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel 2018 (Australia)

Overview

Gripping page turning thriller from one of Australia's most celebrated literary crime writers. 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.

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9781925498882

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`A top-class writer.' * The Times * `[Disher's] writing is subtle, terse and relentless...understated but astoundingly vivid.' * Weekend Herald * `Disher is a world-class crime novelist.' * Canberra Weekly * `Garry Disher deserves his reputation as one of Australia's finest crime writers.' * Stuff NZ * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian * `Disher's terse, spare prose never falters.' * Weekend Press * `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.' * Age *

`Victorian crime fiction king Garry Disher is a literary machine...Bring on the next case.' * Herald Sun * `Well-crafted and leanly written, this tense novel grips from beginning to end.' * Canberra Weekly * `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 * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian *

`Well-crafted and leanly written, this tense novel grips from beginning to end.' * Canberra Weekly * `A top-class writer.' * The Times * `[Disher's] writing is subtle, terse and relentless...understated but astoundingly vivid.' * Weekend Herald * `Disher is a world-class crime novelist.' * Canberra Weekly * `Garry Disher deserves his reputation as one of Australia's finest crime writers.' * Stuff NZ * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian * `Disher's terse, spare prose never falters.' * Weekend Press * `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.' * Age *

`The reader is taken on a breathtaking ride...[Disher's] characters, vivid prose and settings are wonderful.' * ReadPlus * `Well-crafted and leanly written, this tense novel grips from beginning to end.' * Canberra Weekly * `A top-class writer.' * The Times * `[Disher's] writing is subtle, terse and relentless...understated but astoundingly vivid.' * Weekend Herald * `Disher is a world-class crime novelist.' * Canberra Weekly * `Garry Disher deserves his reputation as one of Australia's finest crime writers.' * Stuff NZ * `Garry Disher has been giving us highly intelligent literary thrillers for decades and he gets better and better.' * Australian * `Disher's terse, spare prose never falters.' * Weekend Press * `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.' * Age *

Author Information

Garry 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.

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