** WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION **
‘A master storyteller’ – GUARDIAN
‘A superb chronicler of cop culture’ – SUNDAY TIMES
‘The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke’ – THE TIMES
A LOST CHILD. A BROKEN FAMILY.
Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a child abuse ring operating on the Mornington Peninsula, is thinking abduction. But her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy, and her boss is only thinking about the media. And everyone, including Destry, is wondering whether she’s good enough to handle this without Detective Inspector Hal Challis.
But Challis is miles away, summoned to his childhood home in the outback. So when the body of his missing brother-in-law is found in suspicious circumstances, Challis has his own investigation to pursue. And without each other, both Challis and Destry are worried they’re running out of time…
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Day’s End comes the fourth Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.
A propos de l’auteur
Garry Disher is a genre-defining writer of Australian crime fiction, hailed as ‘the gold standard for rural noir’ by Chris Hammer, and as ‘one of Australia’s finest writers’ by The Times. He has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia’s King of Crime. He has won the German Crime Prize three times and the Ned Kelly Award twice. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.