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“He needed to delve into the records again. Oh, right: he was suspended.�
Charlie’s a cop whose mother disappeared twenty years ago, while his parents were separating. His father, Rhys, also a cop, was quick to move in with a girlfriend, so he has been a suspect all this time. No evidence, just small town people with strong opinions. To complicate things, a small boy disappeared at the same time, just as suddenly. Abduction? Murder?
Disher gives us a bit of background as to why Charlie was suspe ...more
“He needed to delve into the records again. Oh, right: he was suspended.�
Charlie’s a cop whose mother disappeared twenty years ago, while his parents were separating. His father, Rhys, also a cop, was quick to move in with a girlfriend, so he has been a suspect all this time. No evidence, just small town people with strong opinions. To complicate things, a small boy disappeared at the same time, just as suddenly. Abduction? Murder?
Disher gives us a bit of background as to why Charlie was suspe ...more
Twenty years prior, Charlie Deravin’s mother, Rose, went missing. She and his father were in the middle of a divorce and Charlie and his brother Liam had just evicted a tenant from their mother’s home. But when Rose disappeared, the police blamed Rhys, Charlie’s father. Rhys was an ex-cop and Charlie was a cop on suspension � Charlie had moved back to the little seaside town and was living in the shack his parents had called home before it all went pear-shaped. Charlie had spent a lot of the las
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This was my first Garry Disher book, it won’t be my last, can I say wow what a fabulous story, a compelling mystery that had my mind going in all directions trying to sort things out, and we meet Charlie Deravin a detective with the Victorian police force currently on suspension and living back in his family home on the coast, this brings back many memories for Charlie mainly the fact that his mother went missing twenty years before and has never been found, the day as a young constable he was o
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Truthfully, I'm drawing a blank. I've finished reading this days ago and have been scratching my head on what I really think about the novel. While I found the book to be a fairly easy read, I didn't find this cold 'personal' case to be that compelling and I am kind of offended at the abrupt ending. Don't laugh! I am absolutely stumped at where it was ended. I like my t's crossed and my i's dotted so this was really upsetting. So yeah, it's personal.
I've read 2 other books by this author and I r ...more
I've read 2 other books by this author and I r ...more
A slow burn with a mad scramble at the end. I did enjoy reading this but I'm still a bit bewildered by the ending as it feels a bit unfinished.
Such complex family relationships. I suppose if we were all to write down exactly what these relationships were, then we'd find that ours were equally convoluted & complex. I don't think I want to be going there, though, it's a bit scary to think about.
I found it very interesting to cast my mind back to early 2020 & think about the beginning of this curre ...more
Such complex family relationships. I suppose if we were all to write down exactly what these relationships were, then we'd find that ours were equally convoluted & complex. I don't think I want to be going there, though, it's a bit scary to think about.
I found it very interesting to cast my mind back to early 2020 & think about the beginning of this curre ...more
The Way It Is Now is an engaging stand alone crime novel from Australian author Garry Disher.
After an assault on his venal boss, Detective Senior Constable Charlie Deravin has been suspended from duty. While waiting to learn his fate, he’s staying at his childhood home in Menlo Beach on the Mornington Peninsula, spending his mornings in the surf and his afternoons reinvestigating the disappearance of his mother twenty years earlier.
In what is a tightly plotted, absorbing police procedural, Char ...more
After an assault on his venal boss, Detective Senior Constable Charlie Deravin has been suspended from duty. While waiting to learn his fate, he’s staying at his childhood home in Menlo Beach on the Mornington Peninsula, spending his mornings in the surf and his afternoons reinvestigating the disappearance of his mother twenty years earlier.
In what is a tightly plotted, absorbing police procedural, Char ...more
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Really enjoyed this Disher stand-alone! In a time when so many authors want to 600 page tomes to tell their story, it was a pleasure to read a sharp, concise plot-driven novel that kept me interested all the way through. I have already read a number of Disher's novels, but I have now moved him into my "everything he ever wrote" list and have told my local library to start hunting for me. A really interesting and refreshing read because it was just damn good story!
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An enjoyable enough read, although not compelling What ruined it really was the unsatisfactory ending which felt very rushed. I actually turned the page, thinking there must be more, to wrap it up, but no, there was no more. It felt like the author was getting bored and just wanted to finish it in a hurry. Disappointing
Another great read from Garry Disher. Set in a coastal town on the Mornington Peninsula Charlie Deravin is living in the family beach shack whilst he is disciplinary leave from his job in the sex crimes unit in the police force. Twenty years ago Charlie’s mother went missing and was never found, and this has haunted Charlie, and now he has time on his hands he wants to find out what happened to her. His father was always the main suspect as they were going through a divorce at the time, but Char
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I mostly liked this book, except I kept getting the different characters mixed up �. The names were similar. The ending was a bit flat for me too, but enjoyed the character.
I enjoyed the well paced story and characters although it seemed to end quite abruptly after the slow build up.
Oct 20, 2021
Donna
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Kathy
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Venessa Johnstone
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