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A MOTHER’S SECRETS CAN BE DEADLY
Winter is closing in on the Mornington Peninsula and the coastal community of Waterloo is looking for ways to keep warm. But things start to heat up for Detective Inspector Hal Challis when Janine Mc Quarrie is shot in a quiet country lane while her terrified daughter watches from the car.
But as the compromising details of the Mc Quarries’ personal lives come to light, Challis and Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry are faced with another complication: the victim’s father-in-law, who is also their Superintendent. It seems everyone has something to hide this winter. Can the truth be uncovered before the killer strikes again?
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Day’s End comes the third Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.
Circa l’autore
Garry Disher has published sixty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia’s King of Crime. He has won the Deutscher Krimi Preis four times and the Ned Kelly Award three times. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.