Garry Disher, Author . Scholastic/Levine $15.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-439-36915-2
"You could say that this is a story about friendship, and the betrayal of friendship, and friendships lost and regained," notes the narrator of this often elegant but just as often elusive novel from Australia. Set in the seaside town of...
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Garry Disher, Author . Soho $23 (246p) ISBN 978-1-56947-356-6
Australian author Disher delivers an intelligent, atmospheric police procedural, the first of a new series. A serial killer targeting young women along the isolated Old Peninsula Highway has baffled Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his staff....
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Garry Disher, Author . Soho $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-394-8
In Australian author Disher's gripping second police procedural (after 2004's The Dragon Man
), Melbourne homicide detective Hal Challis contends with the pressure of two unsolved murders and his inability to sever all ties with his wife,...
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Garry Disher, Author . Soho $23 (337p) ISBN 978-1-56947-426-6
Fans of grim, uncompromising police procedurals will welcome Australian Disher's gritty, well-plotted third novel to feature Insp. Hal Challis (after 2005's Kittyhawk Down
). A dedicated but haunted man, the Melbourne homicide detective is...
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Garry Disher, Author . Soho Crime $23 (375p) ISBN 978-1-56947-461-7
Australian Disher's fine fourth novel to feature Insp. Hal Challis, head of Peninsula East's Crime Investigation Unit in Waterloo, Queensland (after 2005's Snapshot
), opens with the kidnapping of 10-year-old Katie Blasko. In Challis'
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Garry Disher, Author . Soho Crime $24 (314p) ISBN 978-1-56947-563-8
Two major crimes occupy Det. Insp. Hal Challis and his subordinate and now lover, Sgt. Ellen Destry, in this superior police procedural from Australian Disher, the fifth entry in the Ned Kelly Award–winning series (after 2007’s Chain of...
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Garry Disher, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $15 (96p) ISBN 978-0-395-66595-4
From its exquisite opening line (``There was once music in our lives, but I can feel it slipping away'') to the moving finale, this elegantly delineated tale never strikes a false note. Australian Disher, a newcomer to the American children's book...
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Garry Disher, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-395-69451-0
Readers hoping for another The Bamboo Flute, the Australian author's American debut, will not find it here. In place of the lyricism of that novel, Disher offers up a highly wrought, dystopian tale of two teenagers who escape from the clutches of a...
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-962-9
A jewel heist that appears straightforward proves anything but in Australian author Disher's outstanding seventh thriller featuring Melbourne bank robber Wyatt Wareen, last seen in 1997's The Fallout. Intercepting and robbing an international...
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61695-101-6
It’s thief vs. thief Down Under in Disher’s fast-paced fifth Wyatt thriller, first published in 1995 (after 1994’s Crosskill). Wyatt, a mellower version of Richard Stark’s professional crook Parker, is worried about his career options, especially...
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-174-0
pcMajor budget cuts hamper the investigations of Insp. Hal Challis in Ned Kelly Award–winner Disher's solid sixth novel featuring the Melbourne cop (after 2009's Blood Moon). Challis has two difficult cases to crack: a sophisticated cat burglar who...
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61695-103-0
At the start of Disher's fast-paced sixth Wyatt novel (after Port Vila Blues), the Australian career criminal slipping away from his police woman lover, Liz Redding, to sell some stolen jewelry, but the exchange goes sour and Wyatt barely escapes...
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Garry Disher, Author, Judy Levin, Editor, Andrew McLean, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-395-71643-4
The heroine of this story may not be terribly soignee, but she's found a soulmate in her oh-so-tidy neighbor Cecilia's scruffy cat, Ms. Whiz. Truth is, her own cat, the finicky Evangelina, prefers the perfect Cecilia. Though the girls are willing to
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-859-6
Early in Ned Kelly Award–winner Disher’s excellent seventh Hal Challis investigation (after 2012’s Whispering Death), a pair of hit men from Sydney execute a fencer of stolen property who has the bad luck to spot them in the act of disposing of a...
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Garry Disher. Soho Crime, $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-64129-057-9
In this beautifully written if flawed thriller from Ned Kelly Award–winner Disher (Signal Loss), former homicide detective Alan Auhl, who has come out of retirement to handle cold cases, and his team look into the discovery of a body found under an...
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