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      • Crime & mystery
        November 2020

        Consolation

        by Garry Disher

        Consolation is the new novel by Garry Disher, the celebrated, bestselling author of Peace, and one of Australia’s greatest crime writers.   It’s winter in Tiverton. After the fires of the previous summer, the rains have come at last. There are green shoots in the paddocks and snow on the Razorback—and Constable Paul Hirschhausen has his hands full, with a child in danger at home and a father on the rampage over at the primary school.   Hirsch knows how quickly problems like these can escalate, when families are under pressure and financial problems become overwhelming. But it’s always a surprise when the killing starts.   Bestselling crime writer Garry Disher is a master of the form. Consolation takes us back to the world of Bitter Wash Road and Peace, the hardscrabble landscape in South Australia’s dry country patrolled by Constable Paul Hirschhausen.

      • Fiction
        April 2021

        The Missing

        by Dirk Kurbjuweit, translated by Imogen Taylor

        Based on the deeds of the most notorious serial killer in German history, Dirk Kurbjuweit’s The Missing is a sophisticated exploration of the relationship between crime, politics and society in a world in which anything seems possible.   Hanover, Germany, in the 1920s—the heady days of the Weimar Republic, of clashes between the police and political radicals, while the firebrand demagogue Adolf Hitler languishes in prison. A time of brutality and passion, of traumatised souls and attacks on democracy—and of grisly crime.   Boys are disappearing from the streets of Hanover, one by one. Every day new and gruesome rumours take wing. It’s as if the missing have vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace.   Detective Inspector Robert Lahnstein is assigned to the case, and is soon convinced that he is on the trail of a psychopath. Lahnstein knows he needs a new victim to lead him to the killer but he dreads the day when news will reach him of another lost boy.   The Missing is that rare book: a breathtaking thriller that also provides a complex social portrait of a fabled time. Dirk Kurbjuweit not only looks into the dark heart of a murderer but of an entire society.

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