Peace Garry Disher

Peace Garry Disher

The outstanding new novel from Australia’s King Of Crime

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He’s still new in town but his community work – welfare checks and a light touch – is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a vehicle and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch’s life has been peaceful.

Until he’s called to an incident on Kitchener Street, a strange and vicious attack that sickens the community. And when the Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living on a forgotten back road, it doesn’t look like a season of goodwill at all …

Crime fiction £8.99 B-format trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 78816 512 9 384pp eISBN: 978 1 78283 699 5 October 2020 UK Com ex Can, ANZ Exclusive Europe

14 Garry Disher has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is best known as Australia’s King of Crime. He has won the Deutsche Krimi Preis three times, the Ned Kelly Award twice, and his novel The Sunken Road was nominated for the Booker Prize. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

‘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, author of The Ruin

‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.’ Chris Hammer, author of Scrublands