Crime

Day’s End

by Garry Disher
Ligature finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction

The pandemic has found its way even to Tiverton—the remote South Australian town where Constable Paul Hirschhausen was finally getting the measure of the place—layering new divisions and disruptions on top of the old ones. The rich and the poor, the old and the new, authority and sovereignty, all playing out in a tiny population spread over a vast geography.

A Belgian doctor comes looking for her son, last seen working on an endless sheep station; and someone’s started a scrub fire out of town. The usual kind of thing for a country cop’s wide-ranging beat. But then there’s the body in the suitcase …

Day’s End is the sequel to Bitter Wash Road, Peace and Consolation, rounding out an extraordinary sequence that stands at the pinnacle of rural noir.

‘Crime fiction at its best … took this reader’s breath away.’—Canberra Times

Consolation

by Garry Disher
Ligature finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction

Winter has arrived in Tiverton, the outback South Australian town where Constable Paul Hirschhausen is serving his exile. There’s snow on the peaks and frost on the plains—and a snowdropper in town, swiping women’s underwear from clotheslines. It’s a nuisance offence that leads Hirsch to more chilling crimes—of obsession, exploitation and conspiracy.

And just when Hirsch thinks he’s untangling the seams of trust and resentment that wind through the streets and backroads of this hard landscape—he finds himself at the centre of them all, not sure he’ll make it out alive.

Consolation is the sequel to Bitter Wash Road and Peace, and unveils an entirely new kind of rural noir.

Peace

by Garry Disher
Ligature finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction

Christmas is coming to Tiverton, the outback South Australian town where Constable Paul Hirschhausen is making peace with his exile. That means rising temperatures—and tempers—and all Hirsch wants is a general absence of mayhem.

But the usual brawls and bingles give way to something darker: animal slaughter, dead bodies, missing children, as the insidious gaze and reach of social media deepens the fissures in this isolated rural community.

Peace is the first sequel to Bitter Wash Road and confirms Hirsch and the landscape he is fused to as the new heroes of Australian crime fiction.

‘A scorchingly good novel.’ —Michael Robotham

‘An utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity.’ —Dervla McTiernan

‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.’ —Chris Hammer