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garry disher
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Une jeune femme vient de mourir, dévorée par un requin.
Désespéré, son mari quitte la côte et s'installe avec son enfant à l'intérieur des terres australiennes. Le fils grandit, devient fermier. En 1949, sa jeune épouse lui donne une fille, Anna Antonia Ison Tolley, qui sera l'héroïne de ce livre. Anna vivra un bel amour mais épousera un autre homme, entrera à l'université et fera carrière dans la presse régionale. Elle aura deux enfants. Le temps passe, une vie s'écoule au nord d'Adélaïde, dans un grandiose paysage de cultures et d'élevage.
Un souffle de sérénité accompagne le parcours d'Anna et des siens, et peu à peu cette femme, mise en lumière pour sa richesse intérieure, sa force, son élégante détermination, va incarner ce pays neuf que traverse l'écho des guerres lointaines. La Tranchée déroule ainsi en un flot continu la vie d'Anna et de sa famille. Histoire intime, histoire collective, nationale, se répondent et s'agencent pour offrir au lecteur les décors d'une Australie mal connue.
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* A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME PICK OF THE MONTH * ''A scorchingly good novel'' MICHAEL ROBOTHAM ''Disher is the gold standard for rural noir'' CHRIS HAMMER ''An utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity'' DERVLA MCTIERNAN AN ACT OF INEXPLICABLE CRUELTY. A FAMILY DESTROYED. Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He''s still new in town but his community work - welfare checks and a light touch - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a vehicle, and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch''s life has been peaceful. Until he''s called to an incident on Kitchener Street, a strange and vicious attack that sickens the community. And when the Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living on a forgotten back road, it doesn''t look like a season of goodwill at all... ''In this brilliant novel, Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey'' JOCK SERONG '' An atmospheric and nail-biting novel by one of Australia''s finest writers'' The Times ''Disher is brilliant at rural noir, capturing the stifling atmosphere of a small town where resentments simmer'' Sunday Times
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''The greatness of Garry Disher'' - IAN RANKIN ''A superb chronicler of cop culture'' - SUNDAY TIMES ''Disher is the equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke'' - THE TIMES ________________________________________ WHO SHALL INHERIT THE SINS OF THE FATHER? Twenty years ago, Charlie Deravin''s mother went missing, believed murdered. Her body has never been found, and his father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now Charlie has returned to the coastal town where his mother vanished, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother''s disappearance, he''s run out of leads. Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building site... and the past comes crashing in on Charlie. From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new standalone thriller, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.
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WHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFER
Constable Paul Hirschausen''s rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day''s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson.
But now, just as Hirsch has begun to feel he knows the fragile communities under his care, the isolation and fear of the pandemic have warped them into something angry and unrecognisable. Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge.
Today he''s driving an international visitor around: Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They''re checking out his last photo site, his last employer. A feeling that the stories don''t quite add up.
Then a call comes in: a roadside fire. Nothing much - a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight - but two noteworthy facts emerge. Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence. And the body in the suitcase is not her son''s.
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new thriller, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer. -
B>The Ned Kelly Awardwinning master of Australian noir shows us the darker side of the Peninsula. A major meth-related crime confounds Inspector Hal Challis, while Sergeant Ellen Destry hunts down an elusive serial rapist./b>br>br>A pair of hit men have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a meth lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. As Inspector Hal Challis of the Crime Investigation Unit struggles to link these events to major meth suppliers flooding the Peninsula with drugs, he also finds himself spending valuable time fending off jurisdictional challenges from Melbournes Major Drug Investigative Division. Meanwhile, Sgt. Ellen Destry, of CIUs sex crimes unit, is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. A tense, human, and at times darkly funny entry into Dishers celebrated Ned Kelly Awardwinning series.
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''Disher is the gold standard for rural noir'' - CHRIS HAMMER
''The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke'' - THE TIMES
NO ONE CAN RUN FOREVER
Grace is a thief - a good one. But she''s always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It''s not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate forces her to lie low in a small rural town, where she happens across an antiques shop. The owner Erin is timid but friendly, and has a room to rent. And Grace glimpses a different life, and perhaps a home.
But there are dangerous men watching her, and Grace should know better than to let her guard slip. Because no matter how far she runs, her past is always just a few steps behind...
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation comes a stunning new standalone thriller for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer. -
BITTER WASH ROAD ; CONSTABLE HIRSCH MYSTERIES 1
Garry Disher
- PROFILE BOOKS
- 9 Avril 2020
- 9781788165075
'A top-class writer' THE TIMES 'Vivid and visceral' GUARDIAN 'One of Australia's most admired novelists' SUNDAY TIMES Constable Paul 'Hirsch' Hirschhausen is a whistle-blower. Formerly a promising metropolitan detective, now hated and despised, he's been exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. So when he heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate gunfire and finds himself cut off without backup, there are two possibilities. Either he's found the fugitive killers thought to be in the area. Or his 'backup' is about to put a bullet in him. He's wrong on both counts. But Tiverton - with its stagnant economy, entrenched racism and rural isolation - has more crime than one constable can handle. And when the next call-out takes him to the body of a sixteen-year-old girl, it's clear that whether or not Hirsch finds her killer, his past may well catch up with him.
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THE DRAGON MAN ; HAL CHALLIS INVESTIGATION 1
Garry Disher
- PROFILE BOOKS
- 13 Février 2025
- 9781805224327
''A master storyteller'' - GUARDIAN
''A superb chronicler of cop culture'' - SUNDAY TIMES
''The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke'' - THE TIMES
THERE''S DANGER ON THE OPEN ROAD
Summer is approaching on the Mornington Peninsula. The heat is ramping up, a drought has been forecast, and Detective Inspector Hal Challis is already recycling his shower water and dreading the upcoming holiday madness.
But then he''s called to the sleepy town of Waterloo, where there''s something more to fear. Women are being abducted, their bodies found along the Old Highway. The media demand answers, and with a team who cause as much trouble as they solve, Challis is under increasing pressure. But this killer''s business is far from over...
From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Day''s End comes the first Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.
