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‘Help me, please help me.’ Young, naked, filthy, the woman must have stumbled through bushland to get here. She was clasping the top fence wire with both hands, rocking and keening like an abandoned child. A rapist in a police uniform is stalking Inspector Hal Challis’s Peninsula beat, a very clever female cat burglar has also appeared on his patch—and he’s in hot water with the boss. Again. Meanwhile, at the Waterloo police station, something interesting is going on between Constable Pam Murphy and Jeannie Schiff, the feisty young sergeant on secondment from the Sex Crimes Unit. In his sixth Peninsula novel, Garry Disher keeps the tension and intrigue ramped up on multiple fronts while he takes his characters in intriguing new directions.

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'The sixth in the Challis and Destry series is unmissable. If you haven't heard of them, reading this will have you backtracking.' * Sunday Examiner * 'Now he's back with the sixth book of a first-rate police procedural series featuring the perennially tired DI Hal Challis and his feisty offsider Sergeant Ellen Destry...Whispering Death is the most complex and intriguing book of the lot and close to the best thing Disher's yet written.' * Hobart Mercury * 'Disher works like a biographer, calmly attempting to assemble order in his characters' chaotic lives. Disher cares about their interlinked worlds as much as he does about labyrinth plots, fetishised violence and the showy brainwork of his coppers. As always this grand master propels us methodically yet elegiacally. But he doesn't just provide classy entertainment. His fiction is a kind of social barometer of prevailing tensions in the community, especially in the outlying badlands of Australia's provincial coastal towns.' * Weekend Australian * 'This very fine novel submits to the thriller conventions but with an easy freedom that makes it seem as if Disher made the rules himself...A compulsive and unsettling novel that should win Disher many new readers.' * Sunday Age * 'This is classic Disher, the taut writing bringing a complex plot into as sharp relief as the vivid settings and dread-laden atmosphere do the fully rounded characters.' * West Australian * 'Disher's layered plotlines, peppered with familiar Mornington Peninsula references, make this an engaging yet unsettling read.' * Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun * 'In all, this is a world-class police novel and Disher continues to be one of our best and most consistent crime novelists. Highly Recommended.' * Canberra Times * 'There is no shortage of blood, but Disher has a light touch that adds wry amusement to the predicaments his characters create for themselves. Disher proves you don't have to be a tourist to enjoy the delights of the peninsula.' * Otago Daily Times * 'Disher's sixth Challis murder-mystery emerges as a beguiling, multi-faceted tale.' * Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin * 'Disher is a fine writer about place and also people. Challis, in all his testiness and kindness, is a carefully crafted senior policeman...As in all the best police series, there's continuity and change...Go Garry, Go!' -- Sue Turnbull * Age, Sydney Morning Herald * 'You'll enjoy the journey and an ending that's far more believable than so many modern murder mysteries.' * Herald Sun * 'With so many exhibitionist forensic experts showing off their extraordinary skills, it's a rare pleasure to sit down to a traditional detective story in which solid police work solves a crime. Inspector Hal Challis is very much in charge of the operations in an excellent Australian series written by Garry Disher...There are no shootouts here. Just the drama of people from very different social classes locked in battle over the schools, the services, the beaches, the views-and a way of life that has already gone behind a cloud.' * New York Times * 'DI Challis and his sergeant Ellen Destry...are both deftly, yet complexly drawn characters: two of the best in the genre and Disher easily one of the best writers.' * Weekend Herald *

'DI Challis and his sergeant Ellen Destry...are both deftly, yet complexly drawn characters: two of the best in the genre and Disher easily one of the best writers.' Weekend Herald 'With so many exhibitionist forensic experts showing off their extraordinary skills, it's a rare pleasure to sit down to a traditional detective story in which solid police work solves a crime. Inspector Hal Challis is very much in charge of the operations in an excellent Australian series written by Garry Disher...There are no shootouts here. Just the drama of people from very different social classes locked in battle over the schools, the services, the beaches, the views-and a way of life that has already gone behind a cloud.' New York Times 'You'll enjoy the journey and an ending that's far more believable than so many modern murder mysteries.' Herald Sun 'Disher is a fine writer about place and also people. Challis, in all his testiness and kindness, is a carefully crafted senior policeman...As in all the best police series, there's continuity and change...Go Garry, Go!' -- Sue Turnbull Age, Sydney Morning Herald 'Disher's sixth Challis murder-mystery emerges as a beguiling, multi-faceted tale.' Weekend Gold Coast Bulletin 'There is no shortage of blood, but Disher has a light touch that adds wry amusement to the predicaments his characters create for themselves. Disher proves you don't have to be a tourist to enjoy the delights of the peninsula.' Otago Daily Times 'In all, this is a world-class police novel and Disher continues to be one of our best and most consistent crime novelists. Highly Recommended.' Canberra Times 'Disher's layered plotlines, peppered with familiar Mornington Peninsula references, make this an engaging yet unsettling read.' Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Herald Sun 'This is classic Disher, the taut writing bringing a complex plot into as sharp relief as the vivid settings and dread-laden atmosphere do the fully rounded characters.' West Australian 'This very fine novel submits to the thriller conventions but with an easy freedom that makes it seem as if Disher made the rules himself...A compulsive and unsettling novel that should win Disher many new readers.' Sunday Age 'Disher works like a biographer, calmly attempting to assemble order in his characters' chaotic lives. Disher cares about their interlinked worlds as much as he does about labyrinth plots, fetishised violence and the showy brainwork of his coppers. As always this grand master propels us methodically yet elegiacally. But he doesn't just provide classy entertainment. His fiction is a kind of social barometer of prevailing tensions in the community, especially in the outlying badlands of Australia's provincial coastal towns.' Weekend Australian 'Now he's back with the sixth book of a first-rate police procedural series featuring the perennially tired DI Hal Challis and his feisty offsider Sergeant Ellen Destry...Whispering Death is the most complex and intriguing book of the lot and close to the best thing Disher's yet written.' Hobart Mercury 'The sixth in the Challis and Destry series is unmissable. If you haven't heard of them, reading this will have you backtracking.' Sunday Examiner

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Garry Disher has published almost fifty titles—fiction, children's books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Peninsula Crimes series. He has won numerous awards, including the German Crime Prize (twice) and two Ned Kelly Best Crime novel awards, for Chain of Evidence (2007) and Wyatt (2010). Garry lives on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

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