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Garry Disher

Australia (b.1949)

Garry Disher is one of Australia's best-known novelists.He's published over 40 books in a range of genres: crime thillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, novels for adolescents and children, and writers' handbooks.Disher has toured Germany and the United States, where his crime and children's/YA novels have appeared on best-seller lists and receive rave reviews and awards.

Genres: Mystery, Children's Fiction

Series

Wyatt
   1. Kickback (1992)
   2. Paydirt (1993)
   3. Deathdeal (1993)
   4. Crosskill (1994)
   5. Port Vila Blues (1995)
   6. The Fallout (1997)
   7. Wyatt (2010)
   8. The Heat (2015)
   9. Kill Shot (2018)

Peninsula Crimes
   1. The Dragon Man (1999)
   2. Kittyhawk Down (2003)
   3. Snapshot (2006)
   4. Chain of Evidence (2007)
   5. Blood Moon (2009)
   6. Whispering Death (2012)
   7. Signal Loss (2017)

Paul Hirschhausen
   1. Bitter Wash Road (2013)
     aka Hell to Pay
   2. Peace (2020)
   3. Consolation (2021)
   4. Day's End (2022)

Novels

   Steal Away (1987)
   The Stencil Man (1988)
   The Bamboo Flute (1992)
   Ratface (1994)
   Switch Cat (1994)
   Blame the Wind (1995)
   The Sunken Road (1996)
   Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)
   Ermyntrude Takes Charge (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)

Collections

   Approaches (1981)
   The Difference to Me (1988)
   Flamingo Gate (1991)
   Restless (1995)
   Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (1997)

Novellas and Short Stories

Maddie Finn (2002)
Good One, Erm (2013)

Anthologies edited

   Personal Best (1990)
   Personal Best 2 (1991)
   Below the Waterline (1999)

Series contributed to

After Dark
12. The Half Dead (1997) (with Shaun Tan)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Garry Disher

Dark Deeds Down Under (2022)
(Dark Deeds Down Under, book 1)
edited by
Craig Sisterson

Crosstown Traffic (1993)
edited by
Stuart Coupe, Robert Hood and Julie Ogden

Strange Fruit (1990)
Tales of the Unexpected
edited by
Paul Collins

Awards

	2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel : Consolation
	2010 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel : Wyatt

Award nominations

	2019 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (nominee) : Kill Shot
	2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (nominee) : Under the Cold Bright Lights
	2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (nominee) : The Heat
	2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel (nominee) : Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher recommends

Tell Me What I Am (2023)
Una Mannion
"Intense, deftly suspenseful and beautifully written. Rich characterisation, suspense and long-buried, unsettling secrets mark this beautifully written crime novel about a fractured family."

The Night Whistler (2020)
Greg Woodland
"Troubling undercurrents swirl in a seductively involving story of small-town secrets and obsessions."

Lost Hills (2020)
(Eve Ronin, book 1)
Lee Goldberg
"A tense, pacy read from one of America’s greatest crime and thriller writers."