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By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
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Summary

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....

Garry Disher has published 50 titles across multiple genres and is best known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the Deutsche Krimi Preis three times, the Ned Kelly Award twice, and his novel The Sunken Road was nominated for the Booker. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Critic reviews

'"A scorchingly good novel." (Michael Robotham)

"Disher is the gold standard for rural noir." (Chris Hammer)

"There has been a lot of fuss about Australian rural noir in recent years, but few, if any, do it better than Disher." (Canberra Weekly)

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First time reading Garry Disher and I liked everything about the genre, the style, the characters, the narrative, the plot and the performance.
The only one point I didn’t like - and this may be a purely personal thing -is that I found one part of the plot particularly distressing and difficult to deal with. Obviously I don’t want to elucidate on this as I don’t wish to give away details or spoilers
In every other aspect I enjoyed the book very much, warming to the detective, new to me, Hirsch.

Fast paced crime drama

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Cracking tense story, well written with excellent narration. Best book in the series so far. I’m moving on to the next book asapZ

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This story had me engrossed from beginning to end , was sorry when it finished!. This is a new author and narrator for me so will be looking for other books by them. Being an avid audiobook customer I can say that this is my favourite for some time.

Utterly Compelling

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Excellent drama… but felt there could have been some aboriginal characters…. This is Australia after all!!!

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Not sure what to expect and seemed a long time getting to the main action of the synopsis but in the end that made for a better story and character engagement. Can you see the twists? Probably but the story captures you nonetheless.
And great narration.

Instantly moved to the outback world

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