Garry Disher

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Garry Disher
Born (1949-08-15) 15 August 1949 (age 75)
Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia
OccupationAuthor
Genre Mystery fiction, children's fiction
Years active1987–present
Notable awards Ned Kelly Awards

Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. [1] He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel.

Contents

Disher has written three main book series. These include: the Wyatt [2] thrillers about a master thief, the Peninsula Crimes [3] procedurals about Waterloo cops Hal Challis and Ellen Destry, and the Hirsch series [4] about South Australian rural police constable Paul Hirschhausen.

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Crime series – The Wyatt novels

  • Kickback (1991)
  • Paydirt (1992)
  • Deathdeal (1993)
  • Crosskill (1994)
  • Port Vila Blues (1996)
  • The Fallout (1997)
  • Wyatt (2010)
  • The Wyatt Butterfly (2010: omnibus containing Port Vila Blues and The Fallout)
  • The Heat (2015)
  • Kill Shot (2018)

Crime series – The Challis and Destry novels, aka the Peninsula Crimes series

Crime series – The Paul "Hirsch" Hirschhausen novels

  • Bitter Wash Road (2013) published in 2014 as Hell to Pay in the US
  • Peace (2019) published by Text Publishing
  • Consolation (2020) published by Text Publishing
  • Day's End (2022) published by Text Publishing

Short story collections

Young adult

Children's

Edited

Non-fiction

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References

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  4. "Hirsch series by Garry Disher by". Austlit. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
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