Bitter Wash Road
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
A gripping prequel to Garry Disher’s Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019
Cette série suit un détective disgracié, exilé dans un poste isolé après avoir été dénoncé comme lanceur d'alerte. Contraint d'affronter la corruption, les vendettas personnelles et les sombres secrets d'une communauté isolée, il se retrouve mêlé à des affaires de plus en plus dangereuses. Chaque enquête le pousse à ses limites, défiant son intégrité et sa propre survie. C'est une saga policière captivante explorant les thèmes de la justice, de la rédemption et de la nature omniprésente du péché dans des lieux apparemment paisibles.



A gripping prequel to Garry Disher’s Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019
'A scorchingly good novel' MICHAEL ROBOTHAM 'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir' CHRIS HAMMER 'An utterly compelling mystery with rare heart and humanity' DERVLA MCTIERNAN AN ACT OF INEXPLICABLE CRUELTY. A FAMILY DESTROYED. Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but his community work - welfare checks and a light touch - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a vehicle, and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch's life has been peaceful. Until he's called to an incident on Kitchener Street, a strange and vicious attack that sickens the community. And when the Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living on a forgotten back road, it doesn't look like a season of goodwill at all... 'In this brilliant novel, Disher takes his readers on a harrowing journey' JOCK SERONG 'There has been a lot of fuss about Australian rural noir in recent years, but few, if any, do it better than Disher' Canberra Weekly 'Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction' Sydney Morning Herald
Winter in Tiverton, and Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows how that kind of crime can escalate. Then two calls come in: a child abandoned in a caravan, filthy and starving. And a man on the rampage at the primary school. Hirsch knows how things like that can escalate, too. An absent father who isn't where he's supposed to be; another who flees to the back country armed with a rifle. Families under pressure can break. But it's always a surprise when the killing starts.