‘A superb chronicler of cop culture’ – SUNDAY TIMES
‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir’ – CHRIS HAMMER
‘The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke’ – THE TIMES
ONLY FIRE WILL REVEAL THE TRUTH
It’s bushfire season on the Mornington Peninsula, and things are heating up in the small town of Waterloo. Two bodies are found in a burnt-out car, and Detective Inspector Hal Challis is certain they’re linked to the sudden increase in drug suppliers flooding the Peninsula.
And when Melbourne’s Major Drug Division start blocking his every move, Challis is even more certain of the connection. With a serial predator, known hitmen and a newly discovered meth lab, it seems fires are the least of Waterloo’s problems this season…
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Day’s End comes the final Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.
About the author
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.