Two young girls, next-door neighbors, find themselves hopelessly mismatched with their own pets and completely compatible with each other's cats, but their parents will not allow them to switch animals....
Anna's life is both theme and content of this novel. From her early years to her old age, each chapter reworks this theme. Anna's life has the flavour of melodrama but there are also truths about the nature of regret, the impact of mortality, the wor...
In this thrilling installment in Garry Disher's jewel thief series, Wyatt escapes from a boat with policewoman Liz Redding and a fortune in stolen gems, only to find himself embarking on quite a mission. While others search for sunken treasure in...
`an outstanding piece of writing...a powerful novel...? Reading TimeFriendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don?t, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed?In the pearl...
Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Dete...
From the two-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award and the German Crime Fiction Critix Circle Prize A missing two-year-old girl, an unidentified drowning victim, arson, and the threat of murder bring Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Morningto...
Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mo...
The fifth Hal Challis investigation, set in southeast AustraliaIt’s been a busy few days for Inspector Hal Challis. The school year has just ended, and with the sudden influx of rowdy teenagers on break, Waterloo has become a hotbed for petty crime...
Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch--and perhaps the girl--that undoes him. Now so...
`a masterful achievement? Magpies We have come here to scratch for gold.Once we had a house, a business and a Packard sedan,but they are gone now, seized by the bank.The year is 1934, the time of the Great Depression. The place is a settlement of min...
Eva Hicks has come to Italy for love and art. What she finds in the shifting light of Tuscany are gunshots along the terraced hillsides, the enigmatic Nye and a sense of her misplaced faith.Meanwhile, in a crypt beneath the wintry stones of Venice, M...
`...stunning... Disher is brilliant? Sydney Morning HeraldWe always hurt the ones we love...When Louis?s parents decide to move from the city to a small coastal town, Louis finds himself at odds with everything around him. He?s an outsider at school ...
Maddie Finn lives with her mother above a converted stable in the grounds of a big house owned by the gloomy Harold Delamore. It's their `cosy refuge against the world? and Maddie's favourite task is to walk Sal, Mr Delamore's rare, prize-winning dog...
`a fabulous and creative novel? Daily AdvertiserI goses by the name Moondyne Kate...I was a Orphan Girl and fell into a great melancholyof the spirit, great discouragement was my lot...Canongate was a colourful town in 1865 ? convicts, a gold rush, m...
'Disher is brilliant.' Sydney Morning HeraldLeah Flood is on the run. The cops are after her and she has to keep one step ahead. The irony is that Leah is a cop too. But she?s a cop who made a mistake. Leah knows she?s in the right, but that doesn?t ...
The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; m...
'musical and haunting' Publisher's WeeklyPaul is a dreamer, his head alive with rippling pianos, gentle violins and the smiles of Margaret, the one he loves. But in the cold light of day, Margaret snubs him at school, the piano has been sold, his fat...
Good One, Erm is a warm and moving story of cranky neighbours and family love by the author of The Bamboo Flute.It?s not easy moving house and making new friends. Especially not when the neighbours think you?re weird.And not when Ermyntrude, your gra...
A stunning tale of intrigue and survival in the dusty outback, from the author of The Divine Wind.Rick’s cousins are two specks floating on the horizon, leaving him far behind on the treacherous bush track. He looks at his punctured tyres in dismay...
When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate the gunfire he finds himself cut off without back-up. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch's first thought is that 'back-up' is nearby - a...
Past the Headlands is a sweeping story of north-west Australia and south-east Asia at the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941. The fall of Malaya and Singapore and the bombing of Darwin-what looked like the invasion of Australia-ebb...
A concentration camp-on Australian soil. Men are separated from their families by barbed wire. They have committed no crimes; they try to explain to their children that they're not in prison. It feels like prison. They're told it's only temporary,...
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.Flamingo Gate Â...
A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local constable with a troubled past must investigate the death of a teenage girl whose murder threatens to set the dusty streets ablaze. Constable Paul Hi...
The Ned Kelly Award-winning master of Australian noir shows us the darker side of the Peninsula. A meth-related crime has Inspector Hal Challis on his backfoot, while Sergeant Ellen Destry hunts down an elusive serial rapist. A pair of hit men wo...
A cold-case investigator will stop at nothing to find justice in this gripping standalone by Australian crime legend Garry Disher. The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn’t faze him. He does things his own way -- and ge...
In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a teacher who t...