Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
345 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series Title |
Hal Challis investigation ; 7
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Note(S) |
Originally published by Text Publishing Co. Australia in 2016. |
Summary |
"The seventh installment in Garry Disher's celebrated Challis and Destry procedural series, set in Australia A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry, newly minted head of her department's sex crime unit, and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Garry Disher's Peninsula-based crimes series. With meth-related crime on the rise, interdepartmental tensions mount, and Challis soon finds himself fighting to keep control of his case. Meanwhile, Destry is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. A tense, human, at times darkly funny entry into Disher's celebrated Ned Kelly Award-winning series"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject(S) |
Challis, Hal (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Destry, Ellen (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Police -- Australia -- Melbourne Region (Vic.) -- Fiction.
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Detectives.
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Crime.
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Drug lords.
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Hit men.
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Murder.
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Murder investigations.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Fiction.
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Mystery Police procedural.
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Suspense.
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Fiction.
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ISBN |
9781616958596 (hardcover) |
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1616958596 (hardcover) |
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