Showing results for "Garry Disher" in Police Procedurals

Hirsch is checking firearms. The regular police audit: all weapons secured, ammo stored separately, no unauthorised person with keys to the gun safe. He’s checking people, too. The drought is hitting hard in the mid-north, and Hirsch is responsible for the welfare of his scattered flock of...

It's the worst drought in a generation, and the people of Senior Constable Paul Hirschhausen's vast outback beat are suffering. Foreclosures. Failing businesses. Petty quarrels on the brink of escalation. So when Annika Nordrum asks for help, Hirsch is relieved to feel useful. Her father's body...

Die Dezemberhitze brennt auf die trockenen Felder und den flimmernden Asphalt im australischen Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen leitet die Polizeistation der Kleinstadt im staubigen Niemandsland. Bagatelldiebstähle, Trunkenheit am Steuer - Hirsch hat nicht allzu viel zu tun. Bis ein Pferdemassaker die Anwohner erschüttert und dem Constable Rätsel aufwirft. Die Medien wittern eine Story und fallen in Tiverton ein. Hirsch muss die Gemüter beruhigen, doch als auch noch eine Leiche gefunden wird, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

Ein jahrealtes Skelett, ein ungeklärter Mordfall und vergessene Geheimnisse - ein Fall für Sergeant Alan Auhl. Im Garten der Wrights auf der Blackberry Hill Farm gleitet eine Schlange über den verdorrten Rasen und unter eine verwitterte Betonplatte. Die aufgeschreckte Familie lässt den Schlangenfänger kommen, doch der buddelt etwas ganz anderes aus: Unter der Platte kommt ein Skelett zum Vorschein. Ein Fall für die Abteilung für ungelöste Verbrechen, in der Sergeant Alan Auhl verstaubte Cold Cases bearbeitet.

Hirsch’s rural beat 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. In the time of the virus, Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance...

Stundenlang patrouilliert Constable Hirschhausen über Highways und ausgewaschene Schotterstraßen durchs australische Hinterland. Nervosität liegt in der Luft, die Pandemie zehrt an den Nerven und an Hirschs Toleranzlevel. Auf der Suche nach einem vermissten Backpacker sieht sich Hirsch starrsinnigen Farmern gegenüber, als er zu einem vermeintlichen Brand gerufen wird: ein dilettantisch angezündeter Koffer im Straßengraben. Bis Hirsch die Leiche darin entdeckt.

From one of Australia’s most loved and celebrated crime writers, the multiple award-winning Garry Disher. Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin’s mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since. Now...

* WINNER OF THE NED KELLY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD * SMALL CRIMES CAN HAVE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES Winter in Tiverton, and Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come...

An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for D.I. Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. And...

A small bushfire, but nasty enough for ice cooks to abandon their lab. Fatal, too. But when the bodies in the burnt-out Mercedes prove to be a pair of Sydney hitmen, D.I. Hal Challis’s inquiries into a local ice epidemic take a darker turn. Meanwhile, Ellen Destry, head of the new sex crimes...

When hordes of eighteen-year-olds descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the end of exams, a brutal bashing attracts political attention. The victim is connected, and now D. I. Hal Challis is facing interference from on high. Newly embarked on a relationship with his Sergeant, Ellen...

The neat suburban homes of the Peninsula seem like an improbable setting for sex parties, blackmail and murder. But when D.I. Hal Challis is called to investigate the murder of Janine McQuarrie – shot in a deserted country lane in front of her seven-year-old daughter – his progress is...

Detective Alan Auhl does things his own way – and gets results. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick – his daughters are still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that’s just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two...