Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
'A superb chronicler of cop culture' -- Sunday Times
Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a child abuse ring operating on the Mornington Peninsula, is thinking abduction. But her colleagues are thinking bad family or truancy, and her boss is only thinking about the media. And everyone, including Destry, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without Detective Inspector Hal Challis.

Challis is miles away, summoned to his childhood home in the outback. When the body of his missing brother-in-law is found in suspicious circumstances, Challis has his own investigation to pursue. But without each other to lean on, both Challis and Destry may be running out of time...

'A top-class writer' -- The Times
'Vivid and uncompromising' -- Sydney Morning Herald
'The master of outback noir' -- Canberra Weekly
'The best in the business' -- Age

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence. A Lost Child. A Broken Family. Viper, ISBN: 9781805224488 (July, 2025), 462 p., £9.99.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
The awarding-winning fourth novel with Detective Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry, from Australia's King of Crime
** WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION **
'A master storyteller' - GUARDIAN
'A superb chronicler of cop culture' - SUNDAY TIMES
'The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMES

A LOST CHILD. A BROKEN FAMILY.
Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a child abuse ring operating on the Mornington Peninsula, is thinking abduction. But her colleagues are thinking bad family or truancy, and her boss is only thinking about the media. And everyone, including Destry, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without Detective Inspector Hal Challis.

Challis is miles away, summoned to his childhood home in the outback. When the body of his missing brother-in-law is found in suspicious circumstances, Challis has his own investigation to pursue. But without each other to lean on, both Challis and Destry may be running out of time...

From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Sanctuary comes the fourth Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence. A Lost Child. A Broken Family. Viper, ISBN: 9781805224495 (February, 2025), eBook, 518 KB (ca. 340 p.), £7.99.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By then, hope is slim that the police will find the child before it is too late.

Challis' sister's difficult husband disappeared from the Bluff four years ago; since then Meg has received nuisance mail that she assumes comes from him. While Challis is in town, an extra buried body is discovered when a new grave is dug in the local graveyard. A black plastic bag containing the corpse of Meg's husband is found on top of a coffin that was interred four years earlier.

With two very different crimes to solve, Challis and Destry have their work cut out for them.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence. An Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry Investigation. Soho Crime, ISBN: 1569475008 (July, 2008), 375 p., $14.95.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By then, hope is slim that the police will find the child before it is too late.

Challis' sister's difficult husband disappeared from the Bluff four years ago; since then Meg has received nuisance mail that she assumes comes from him. While Challis is in town, an extra buried body is discovered when a new grave is dug in the local graveyard. A black plastic bag containing the corpse of Meg's husband is found on top of a coffin that was interred four years earlier.

With two very different crimes to solve, Challis and Destry have their work cut out for them.

Garry Disher: Chain of Evidence. An Inspector Hal Challis Investigation. Soho Crime, ISBN: 1569474613 (July, 2007), 375 p., $24.00.