Garry Disher Book List - Australian Crime Fiction HQ

Garry Disher grew up in South Australia and now lives in Melbourne where he writes full-time. As well as crime novels he has written books of short stories, children's fiction and writer's handbooks. His novel "The Sunken Road" was nominated for the 1996 Booker Prize and he has twice won the German Crime Fiction Award. His short story anthologies have earned him short-listings for the Steele Rudd Award on two occasions. In 2018 he was awarded the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australian Crime Writers Association.

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Wyatt series

Wyatt is a tough, hardened criminal who covers all his bases with a professional's care. This is an outstanding crime series that lovers of hardboiled crime novels will enjoy.

Kickback (1991)
Paydirt (1992)
Deathdeal (1993)
Crosskill (1994)
Port Vila Blues (1995)
The Fallout (1997)
Wyatt (2010)
The Heat (2015)
Kill Shot (2018)

Peninsula series

A police procedural series featuring Hal Challis set on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria

The Dragon Man (1999)
Kittyhawk Down (2003)
Snapshot (2005)
Chain of Evidence (2007)
Blood Moon (2009)
Whispering Death (2011)
Signal Loss (2016)

Paul Hisrchhausen series

Hirsch is a disgraced Adelaide detective sent to a one-cop station in dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges, in South Australia

Bitter Wash Road (2013)
apa Hell to Pay
Peace (2019)
Consolation (2020)
Day's End (2022)

Stand Alone

Steal Away (1987)
The Stencil Man (1988)
The Bamboo Flute (1992)
Ratface (1994)
The Sunken Road (1996)
Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)
The Apostle Bird (1998)
The Divine Wind (1999)
From Your Friend, Louis Deane (2000)
Past the Headlands (2001)
Moondyne Kate (2002)
Two-Way Cut (2004)
Eva's Angel (2004)
Play Abandoned (2011)
Her (2017)
Under the Cold Bright Lights (2017)
The Way It Is Now (2022)
Sanctuary (2024)