by Garry Disher
Ligature
finest
genre Crime
The first Wyatt novel. Professional, methodical and only slightly sentimental, Wyatt is a flinty poem of a criminal and one of the most memorable creations in modern Australian literature.
by Bernard Cohen
Ligature
finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction
The multiple award-winning The Blindman’s Hat is Paul Auster with added exuberant silliness, Sara Paretsky stuffed full of red herrings, and Hergé overcome by lust.
by Garry Disher
Ligature
finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction · Stories
There are three ways to play a crime story. You can play it straight, making the most of the conventions of the genre. You can bend the conventions and the genre itself all the way around. Or you can take the genre deeper into the human mind and soul. These dozen stories play it every way there is, and they’re like nothing you’ve ever read.
by Garry Disher
Ligature
finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction · Stories
Melbourne in the last decade of the millennium feels like a hard-boiled fiction or a noir film, with corruption in the air and on the ground. Six short stories and a novella circle the city’s decay, spiral towards a thrilling conclusion and fuse into a new kind of crime fiction.
by Garry Disher
Ligature
finest
genre Crime · Literary Fiction · Stories
Two of Garry Disher’s seminal collections of fiction, collected together for the first time. If you love Garry’s literary fiction or crime fiction, his longer or shorter works—this collection has it all, and usually all at once.
by Matt Rubinstein
Ligature
first
genre Crime · Literary Fiction
A postmodern serial killer thriller. The world’s greatest writers of Multiple Homicide Fiction are gathered for a festival—only to be killed in ways that hauntingly recall their most famous works. Local author Rachel Stern finds herself on the hunt for the shadowy Reader—but will she end up on his list?
