Chain of Evidence

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST CRIME FICTION 'A master storyteller' - GUARDIAN'A superb chronicler of cop culture' - SUNDAY TIMES'The equal of Joseph Wambaugh and James Lee Burke' - THE TIMESA LOST CHILD. A BROKEN FAMILY.Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a child abuse ring operating on the Mornington Peninsula, is thinking abduction. But her colleagues are thinking bad family or truancy, and her boss is only thinking about the media. And everyone, including Destry, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without Detective Inspector Hal Challis.Challis is miles away, summoned to his childhood home in the outback. When the body of his missing brother-in-law is found in suspicious circumstances, Challis has his own investigation to pursue. But without each other to lean on, both Challis and Destry may be running out of time...From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author of Consolation and Sanctuary comes the fourth Hal Challis investigation, for readers of Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and Chris Hammer.

The plot twists like a backroad short cut and pulls like the rip Sunday Age
His best novel... Disher brings crime fiction back to simple facts, the painful themes that churn beneath banal surfaces. No one works the flat, elided plains of realism better Weekend Australian
This instalment puts Disher up on the world stage among the best in the business at this style of crime fiction Age
Mulltilayered and multistranded, Chain of Evidence is written in vivid and uncompromising prose Sydney Morning Herald
A compelling mix of procedural detail and action round out a fully credible plot and characters... A deeply satisfying read Publishers Weekly

Garry Disher has published over sixty titles across multiple genres and is best known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the Deutscher Krimi Preis four times, the Ned Kelly Award three times, and in 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

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