Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down (UK 2025)

From the Publisher:
'A superb chronicler of cop culture' -- Sunday Times
A cloud of despondency hangs over the Mornington Peninsula. A decomposing corpse is fished out the sea, though remains unidentifiable. A two-year-old is missing, but without sufficient evidence the Waterloo Police can't charge their lead suspect. And what was a simple case of burning letterboxes has quickly escalated into torched stolen cars.

Something has got to give. But then Detective Inspector Hal Challis gets a call from his friend, aerial photographer Kitty Casement. Someone's damaged her plane, leaving her life at risk. Is this another case doomed to run cold, or could it provide the break they all need?

'A top-class writer' -- The Times
'Crime fiction at its best' -- Age
'A deft and compelling novelist' -- Guardian Australia
'The master of outback noir' -- Canberra Weekly

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down. Every cold case deserves justice. Viper, ISBN: 9781805224341 (February, 2025), 317 p., £9.99, eBook £4.99.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis and Sergeant Ellen Destry of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis' own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down. A Challis & Destry Mystery. Bitter Lemon Press, ISBN: 190473829X (June, 2008), 286 p., £8.99.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis's own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down. An Inspector Hal Challis Investigation set in Australia. Soho Crime, ISBN: 1569474273 (July, 2006), 275 p., $14.00.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis's own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women.

Garry Disher: Kittyhawk Down. An Inspector Hal Challis Investigation set in Australia. Soho Crime, ISBN: 1569473943 (July, 2005), 275 p., $23.00.