WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK.
The job's a classic jewel heist: quick, clean and simple. Except for one thing. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this job belongs to Eddie Oberin and his very smart ex-wife Lydia. She has the inside information; Wyatt has the planning genius and meticulous preparation. What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty. But when you cross Wyatt, you don't walk away.
Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.
'Disher at his stylish best…Wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' Sydney Morning Herald
‘I hope we don't have to wait another decade for the next instalment.' Age
‘Lean, cold and spare—right to the point and never a word too many.' Herald Sun
‘Australian noir writ large across Melbourne suburbia.' GQ
‘Disher's writing is short, dry and fast-paced.' West Australian
Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Wyatt Berufsverbrecher alter Schule. Er hat seine Regeln, und er lässt niemals zu, dass sie gebrochen werden. Aber Wyatt hat auch seine Zweifel, wie das Leben weitergehen soll. Denn mittlerweile laufen seine Coups nicht mehr gut, er ist pleite, und nun hat auch noch eine Bande von Autoschiebern und Betrügern aus Melbourne ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt. Schnell wird der Jäger Wyatt zum Gejagten ...
D.I. Hal Challis is in trouble with the boss and missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too close to home. Not to mention a very clever, very mysterious female cat burglar who may or may not be planning something on Challis's patch.
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 wives and a girlfriend, and left no evidence at all...
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 Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, 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.
The Way It Is Now is the enthralling new novel from Garry Disher, one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers.
'Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' TONY BIRCH
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 Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, 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.
The Way It Is Now is the enthralling new novel from Garry Disher, one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers.
‘Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' TONY BIRCH
‘Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' CHRIS HAMMER
‘A giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters.' NED KELLY AWARDS
Wyatt needs a job.
A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time.
So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten.
He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful.
But who is his client? Who else wants that painting?
Sometimes, being very careful is not enough.
‘For the connoisseur of crime the Wyatt series represents Disher at his stylish best…wicked and wonderful. Welcome back, Wyatt.' – Sydney Morning Herald
Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes. With his luck and his resources rapidly running out, Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with Raymond, his estranged nephew and an established criminal himself, to lift some expensive artwork.
It should be an easy job — the gallery is under construction and Wyatt has performed similar heists before. But it isn't long before things go south, leaving Wyatt with some tough choices. Will the young and eager Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil or is he nothing but deadweight? For Wyatt, putting faith in other people has never been as tempting... or as dangerous.
“Disher continues to show an impressive knack for planning capers that go like clockwork..” Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the Wyatt series
“Like an Australian Bob le Flambeur, Disher's titular robber is smooth, calm and planning a big heist.” Entertainment Weekly
'There's real technique on show here.... it's so fast and hard-written that it becomes a blur, a flurry of activity that dazzles the senses.... Wyatt is a thrill-laden pleasure.' ABC Radio
'Outstanding.... The spare, economical prose perfectly suits this tale of mad love and crimes gone wrong, which will remind many of Westlake's better Parker novels.' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
'Endlessly cool, enormously competent.... a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.' Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
'Brilliant.... The similarities with another fictional thief--Richard Stark's antihero Parker--are many.' Seattle Times
'Disher takes us back to the golden age of thrillers, a time when they were fast, taut and dependably suspenseful.' Kirkus Reviews
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 hampered by a web of lies and secrets. Everybody has something to hide, something to lose. And someone in Waterloo is determined to kill again.
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 bodies burned up 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 Gary 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.
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 unit, finds herself not only juggling the personalities of her team but hunting a serial rapist who leaves no evidence behind.
Wyatt steals $ 50,000 and a sought-after piece of jewelry in a burglary of a politician's house. Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that brings him undone. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules - even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home.
Port Vila Blues is Wyatt's fifth heist. It's faster than ever, racing towards the inevitable confrontation on a clifftop above the deceptively calm waters of Port Vila Bay.
'In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style crim Wyatt positively shines. Clear taut writing - not a word wasted.' MARELE DAY, author of Lambs of God
'Tough, violent, relentless and thoroughly convincing.' STUART COUPE, author of The Roadies
'To Disher's usual brisk pacing, add heaps of noir...a banquet for those who like it uncut and unsparing.' KIRKUS REVIEWS
