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Garry Disher grew up in South Australia and now lives in Melbourne where he writes full-time. As well as crime novels he has written books of short stories, children's fiction and writer's handbooks. His novel "The Sunken Road" was nominated for the 1996 Booker Prize and he has twice won the German Crime Fiction Award. His short story anthologies have earned him shortlistings for the Steele Rudd Award on two occasions. |
The Wyatt series
Wyatt is a tough, hardened criminal who covers all his bases with a professional's care. This is an outstanding that lovers of hardboiled crime novels will enjoy.
To get more details, the dustjacket summary plus my own review, click on the titles.
| Kickback (1991) My Review | Crosskill (1994) My Review |
| Paydirt (1992) My Review | Port Vila Blues (1995) My Review |
| Deathdeal (1993) My Review | The Fallout (1997) My Review |
The Inspector Hal Challis Series
| The Dragon Man (1999) | Chain of Evidence (2007) |
| Kittyhawk Down (2003) | Blood Moon (2009) |
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Snapshot (2005) |
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Steal Away (1987) |
Past the Headlands (2001) |
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The Stencil Man (1988) |
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Crosskill : Wyatt is broke - and angry. The Mesics took his money a year ago. It's time to get it back.
The Outfit has other plans. They want Wyatt dead. $40,000 is a small price to pay to make it happen.
For Wyatt the street has become an extremely dangerous place - too dangerous to move in on the Mesics yet. He needs a different break. A bargain the Outfit can't refuse.
But Wyatt must also manoeuvre cops on the take - and an Outfit lieutenant with a gun in her hand and revenge on her mind. |
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Port Vila Blues: Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart.
It's the diamond studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that brings him undone. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation.
But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules - even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home.
Port Vila Blues is Wyatt's fifth heist. It's faster than ever, racing towards the inevitable confrontation on a clifftop above the deceptively calm waters of Port Vila Bay. |
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The Fallout : The Fallout is Wyatt's sixth job, and it takes off where Port Vila Blues left him. On a boat with policewoman Liz Redding, and a fortune in stolen gems. He escapes, triggering a manhunt, but who exactly is hunting him?
While others search for sunken treasure in Bass Strait and a stone-cold killer is sprung from gaol, Wyatt joins forces with his nephew to pull one of his trickiest robberies. In doing so he faces his most dangerous task yet - plumbing the depths within himself - and it may well prove fatal. |
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The Dragon Man : It's December, and the police of sleepy Peninsula towns are preparing for the general summer madness - beach houses broken into; New Year's Eve celebrations; joyriding kids...
But this time there's a killer at work on the Old Peninsula Highway. And someone's torching houses and cars.
For Detective Inspector Hal Challis dealing with the demands of the media, expedient colleagues, a troubled past and his beloved Dragon Rapide means that the Peninsula, his port in a storm, will never be the same again.
The Dragon Man introduces a compelling new crime series from the author of the internationally acclaimed Wyatt thrillers. |
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Kittyhawk Down : An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings.
As Challis investigates, an unstable farmer erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. Meanwhile, Challis's emotional life is strained and, adding further complications, some of his police colleagues have allowed their private and public responsibilities to blur in ways that could have unforseen results. And then Challis finds some aerial photographs in the possession of his friend, Kitty, that link her to the murders.
Kittyhawk Down is the second in Garry Disher's Detective Inspector Challis series, following the internationally renowned The Dragon Man, winner of the German Fiction Critics Award 2001 and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. |
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Snapshot : The neat suburban homes of the peninsula seem like an improbable setting for sex parties, blackmail and murder. Winter is closing in on the coastal community of Waterloo, and behind the closed doors its residents have some peculiar ways of keeping warm.
When Detective Inspector Hal Challis is called to investigate the brutal murder of Janine McQuarrie, shot in a deserted country lane as her seven-year-old daughter looks on, his progress is hampered by lies and secrets. It doesn't help that Challis's superior - bureaucrat, golfer and toady Superintendent McQuarrie - is Janine's father-in-law. Or that Challis has his own personal demons to confront.
Everybody has something to hide, something to lose. And someone in Waterloo is determined to kill again. |
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