Garry Disher

Inspector Hal Challis is called in to investigate when social psychologist Janine McQuarrie is killed, and his investigation takes a surprising turn when Hal learns the victim's husband had been pressuring her to attend spouse-swapping parties, leading Hal to suspect the husband may know more about the murder than he is letting on.

Inspector Hal Challis is called to his boyhood home to tend to his dying father, leaving Sergeant Ellen Destry to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles while Hal conducts his own investigation into his brother-in-law's mysterious disappearance.

Inspector Hal Challis of the Peninsula Police Force is called in to investigate a series of possibly related crimes along with the disappearance of a two-year-old girl and a drowning victim in the small Australian seaside town of Bushrangers Bay.

On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.

Betrayed by a spy and shot down over the jungle, Neil Quiller escapes to Singapore ahead of the advancing Japanese. Here he finds love and friendship but is also unsettled to encounter his cousin who demands an impossible promise from him.

Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.

A teenage boy and girl attempt to escape with a seven-yearold boy from a racist cult known as the White League, when they find out that they are not orphans as they have been told.

In a rural Australian community in 1932, twelve-year-old Paul has his predictable life brightened when a drifter helps him make a flute and teaches him how to play it.

Drugging his former police officer girlfriend and fleeing with a cache of stolen gems he subsequently discovers are fakes, enduring thief Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with his estranged nephew to engineer a complicated heist.

Two cats have mismatched personalities with their next-door neighbor owners until one day when things are set right.

"The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. 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. Meanwhile, at the Waterloo Police Station, Challis finds his officers have their own issues. Scobie Sutton, still struggling with his wife's depression, seems to be headed for a career crisis; and something very interesting is going on between Constable Pam Murphy and Jeanne Schiff, the feisty young sergeant on assignment from the Sex Crimes Unit"--

Book 8 of the 9 book Wyatt series. Wyatt is an art thief (and other valuables), a great character and great mystery.

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