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“Hirsch halted, his heart racing. Mapped out his next few seconds: three or four running steps to the closest fence post, right hand on top of it for leverage, a clean vault over into the paddock and then a racing zigzag across it� �
Day’s end, indeed. Hirsch’s days don’t end � he just forces himself to switch off until the phone rings in the middle of what passes for dinner or what passes for a good night’s sleep, demanding he come immediately.
As a country cop, demoted under a cloud (not his ...more
“Hirsch halted, his heart racing. Mapped out his next few seconds: three or four running steps to the closest fence post, right hand on top of it for leverage, a clean vault over into the paddock and then a racing zigzag across it� �
Day’s end, indeed. Hirsch’s days don’t end � he just forces himself to switch off until the phone rings in the middle of what passes for dinner or what passes for a good night’s sleep, demanding he come immediately.
As a country cop, demoted under a cloud (not his ...more
Senior Constable Paul Hirschhausen (Hirsch) lived in the small outback town of Tiverton, where he looked after the locals, ran his small police station, and did weekly patrols out through the vast area to the properties and beyond; that was his beat. The day he was driving an international visitor, Janne Van Sant, who was searching for her backpacking son, Willi, they headed to the station where he last worked. Finding that he and his girlfriend had headed for the Gold Coast, Hirsch and Janne he
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‘One hopes,� Dr Van Sant said, ‘but suffers misfortune—and so is desolate.�
Day’s End is the fourth book in Garry Disher’s stellar crime fiction series featuring South Australian police officer Paul Hirschhausen.
Driving back from a large station on the edge of his rural beat with the mother of a missing Austrian backpacker, Hirsch is diverted to a fire in a culvert where he discovers a body in a smouldering suitcase. He doesn’t recognise the man, but is relieved at least he bears no resemblance t ...more
Day’s End is the fourth book in Garry Disher’s stellar crime fiction series featuring South Australian police officer Paul Hirschhausen.
Driving back from a large station on the edge of his rural beat with the mother of a missing Austrian backpacker, Hirsch is diverted to a fire in a culvert where he discovers a body in a smouldering suitcase. He doesn’t recognise the man, but is relieved at least he bears no resemblance t ...more
Another solid Hirschhausen book from Garry Disher. We're really starting to see quite a number of pandemic-timed books hit the market, and Disher has really grabbed the bull by the horns in this regard. Mask-wearing, housing instability, conspiracy theories and covid deniers dominate this story, as Hirsch battles anti-vaxxers and RWNJ militants organising in his jurisdiction, with a side dish of cultural appropriation. In this sense it's a brave book, as Disher's clear stance on a number of topi
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This has been a great series but I didn't enjoy his Mornington Peninsula first book as much. I hope there are more of this series to come. Hirsch is a good protagonist!
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The 4th in the Hirsch series by Garry Disher and another great read. Hirsch is driving a mother, Janne Van Sant, around who is looking for her backpacker son who went missing while the borders were closed. They visit his last employer, but the story does not add up. Hirsch then gets a call about a fire, a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight with a body inside it. There are lots of incidents of racist graffiti around the local towns, all the crazies have come out since Covid.
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