Inspector Hal Challis mysteries
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Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Summer on the Peninsula. The heat's ramping up, the usual holiday madness building. D.I. Hal Challis is already recycling his shower water and starting to dread Christmas. But this year there's something more. Women abducted and murdered on the Old Highway. A pall of fear over the scorched paddocks. The media are demanding answers - and Challis's sleepy beat is set to explode.
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An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for D. I. Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. And then Challis finds some aerial photographs in the possession of his friend Kitty that link her to the murders…
5) Blood moon
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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The winner of numerous prizes for his eclectic body of work, Garry Disher pens this razor-sharp police procedural from his popular Challis/Destry series. Now that they are lovers, Challis and Destry must guard their affections closely, for romantic relationships are against department regulations. This complicates matters as they investigate the brutal assault on a private school chaplain as well as the murder of a public official.
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D.I. Hal Challis is in trouble with the boss and missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too close to home. Not to mention a very clever, very mysterious female cat burglar who may or may not be planning something on Challis's patch.
7) Signal loss
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2017.
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English
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"The seventh installment in Garry Disher's celebrated Challis and Destry procedural series, set in Australia A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry--newly minted head of her department's sex crime unit--and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Garry Disher's Peninsula-based crimes...