Garry Disher

FALLOUT, THE - Garry Disher

Author Information
Book Title: 
The Fallout
Author Name: 
Garry Disher
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Series: 
Wyatt
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Hard Boiled
Publisher: 
Allen & Unwin
Year of Publication: 
1997
Book Review: 

The Fallout is one of the Wyatt Series of Disher's novels. Wyatt is a career criminal involved in everything from art theft, bank robberies, fraud and whatever is going really.
 
The Fallout is Wyatt's sixth job, taking off where Port Vila Blues finished. On a boat with policewoman Liz Redding, and a fortune in stolen gems, Wyatt finds himself joining forces with his nephew to pull off an art heist in Melbourne, not really aware of exactly what his nephew has been up to.
 
Another shoot 'em up, charge around thriller which can be read without the preceding books, although Port Villa Blues first would have saved a bit of confusion in the early book about what was actually going on.
 

SHADOW ALLEY - Lucy Sussex

Author Information
Book Title: 
Shadow Alley
Author Name: 
Lucy Sussex
Kerry Greenwood
Jennifer Rowe
Garry Disher
Susan Geason
Allan Baillie
Alison Goodman
Claire Carmichael
David McRobbie
Jenny Pausacker
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
1862912408
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Short Stories
Young Adult
Publisher: 
Omnibus Books
Year of Publication: 
1995
Book Review: 

First published in 1995, Shadow Alley is a compilation of short crime stories written around the premise of detectives when they were teenagers.
 
A majority of the authors stuck to this premise, whereas some chose instead to write about teenage characters within the stories themselves.
 
Kerry Greenwood takes Phryne Fisher back to her boarding school days in England, right after her father has inherited the title that makes her an "Hon". AN OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION is set during WWII and Phryne is an adventurous schoolgirl already very dismissive of authority and so called "hierarchy".
 
In FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Jennifer Rowe has Verity Birdwood recounting the story of the death of one of her childhood neighbours and how, as a young child, she was able to provide the clues that correctly identified the perpetrator.
 
Garry Disher introduces a young girl in a difficult position, using her wits when trapped in a building by corrupt police in WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED.
 
In TOTALLY DEVOTED, Susan Geason has an unnamed private detective tracking down a young girl who has suddenly gone missing in Kings Cross.
 
Allan Baillie takes great liberties with the premise in the very amusing MURDER AT CROCKUS FLAT.
 
THE TERRIFIC TWO GETS BUSTED by Alison Goodman is a tale of peer pressure and right versus wrong.
 
Claire Carmichael uses GET JACK to explore the feelings of guilt and retribution that are left when a hit run driver kills one friend and leaves the other gravely injured.
 
SQUAT by David McRobbie uses homelessness to provide a brief glimpse of sheer desperation to survive and the cruelty of manipulation of other people's circumstances.
 
Jenny Pausacker uses ANOTHER DAY IN HELL to highlight snobbery and pretension in private school petty power games.
 
All in all, this is a great anthology for teenagers. Even though it's now over 10 years old, the subject matter is current. If you can get hold of a copy of this it's a great series of stories for boys or girls.
 

Chain of Evidence

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Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction

Blurb from the book

Ten year old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sargeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without D.I. Challis.

But Hal Challis is a thousand kilometres away, watching his father die. Ellen Destry's running the show on her own. And if she's right, Katie Blasko may be running out of time.

Sub Genre: 
Police Procedural
ISBN: 
9781921145414
Location: 
Mornington Peninsula
Series: 
Challis & Destry
Publisher: 
Text Publishing
Year of Publication: 
2007

Garry Disher and Colin Cotterill head up SOHO Crime August 2007 Newsletter

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Author Name: 
Garry Disher
Colin Cotterill

A link to SOHO Crime's newsletter arrived in my mailbox this morning - and Garry Disher and Colin Cotterill head up the entries.

Have a look at the newsletter:

http://www.sohopress.com/crimenewsletter.html

Ned Kelly Short List for 2007

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Book Title: 
Chain of Evidence
The Night Ferry
The Unknown Terrorist
The Cleaner
Undertow
Spider Trap
The Betrayal of Bindy MacKenzie
Diamond Dove
Better Dead than Never
Behind the Night Bazaar
Justice For The Dead
Overboard
Intractable
Author Name: 
Adrian Hyland
Angela Savage
Barry Maitland
Bernie Matthews
Debi Marshall
Derek Pedley
Duncan McNab
Garry Disher
Gwyn Topham
Jaclyn Moriarty
Karen Kissane
Laurent Boulanger
Liz Porter
Malcolm Dodd
Michael Robotham
Paul Cleave
Paula Doneman
Peter Corris
Richard Flanagan
Beverley Knight

The Ned Kelly's will be presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival (we'll be there again this year) on the evening of Wednesday 29th July, 2007.

Best Crime Novel

Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)

The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham (Little, Brown)

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