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Bitter Wash Road

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by Garry Disher
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A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local constable with a troubled past must investigate the death of a teenage girl whose murder threatens to set the dusty streets ablaze.
Constable Paul Hirschhausen—“Hirsch”—is a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australia’s southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in the country three hours north. Hirsch isn’t just a disgraced cop; the internal investigations bureau is still trying to convict him of something, even if it means planting evidence. When someone leaves a pistol cartridge in his mailbox, Hirsch suspects that his career isn’t the only thing on the line.
But Tiverton has more crime than one cop can handle, due largely to the town’s stagnant economy, rural isolation, and entrenched racism and misogyny. When the body of a 16-year-old local girl is found on the side of the highway, the situation in Tiverton gets even more sinister, and whether or not Hirsch finds her killer, there’s going to be hell to pay.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Paul Hirschhausen

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 21, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781616956998
      • File size: 2128 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781616956998
      • File size: 2128 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Books+Publishing

      September 19, 2013
      Garry Disher’s new novel is a rewarding mix of small-town policing and corruption, parish politics, vested interests and the closing of ranks against an outsider. The outsider in question is Hirsch, a whistleblower cop whose ‘reward’ has been demotion and exile to a one-cop police station in outback South Australia, where he is ordered to investigate the hit-and-run killing of a local teenage girl, but directed not to rock the boat. Everything is stacked against him, Disher convincingly depicting the stultifyingly insular nature of the community and its resentment of an outsider poking around. When it appears a local farmer’s wife has committed suicide in ambiguous circumstances, Hirsch becomes convinced that there are secrets, perhaps other crimes, to be uncovered even though his own boss is ordering him to back off. He is, of course, right. The story builds to a satisfying conclusion following a large public meeting during which some very unsavoury police behaviour, and its cover-up by vested interests, is exposed. The pace of this novel is nicely measured:  fans of good crime fiction and Australian writing alike should enjoy it.

      Max Oliver is a veteran Sydney bookseller and avid crime reader

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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