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Peace
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Narrated by:
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Steve Shanahan
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Garry Disher
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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)
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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Atmospheric and gripping
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Garry Disher is a recent find for me and this second book in the series surpasses the first book which I did not think he would achieve.
The key protagonist Paul Hirshhausen is a world-weary policeman banished to what to many be seen as a backward town in rural Australia. However, Paul takes his integrity with him and strives to do the best for the community and this is despite some opposition among his peers as well as the community. Somehow many other in the town know that he sees them and is there for them so despite his early misgivings he is making himself a part of the town.
Several storylines are running through this book making the in a few sections quite fast and action-packed and these are mixed in with the mundane grievances of a small town which gives you a real sense of both the physical place and the people. The storyline does not feel overdone and the reveals come quite naturally.
Steve Shanahan's narration is beautiful and captures the strengths and fragility of humans that Disher describes so well.
Bring on book three.
An engrossing listen
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Really good storytelling but ….
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Different stories, but included with the Story of Tiverton.
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