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�A police procedural . . . featuring a squad of interestingly flawed homicide cops � working multiple cases that feature multiple puzzles and a pool of incisively well-drawn murder suspects. . . . First rate.�� The New York Times Book Review �Gripping. . . . As the story neatly advances from the viewpoints of characters both major and minor, Disher artfully employs misdirection. . . . Fans of [Peter Robinson or Ian Rankin] will find much to like in this dark whodunit.�� Publishers Weekly �Procedural fans looking for something a little different will devour this one�. Enough dark overtones to elevate the series into the Ian Rankin league.��ALA Booklist The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified corpse has been fished from the sea; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis�s own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women. From Publishers Weekly In Australian author Disher's gripping second police procedural (after 2004's The Dragon Man ), Melbourne homicide detective Hal Challis contends with the pressure of two unsolved murders and his inability to sever all ties with his wife, Angela, who years earlier was convicted of conspiring to have him killed by her lover and remains a suicidal prison inmate. Challis's current relationship with journalist Tessa Kane gets put on hold after his wandering eye fixes on Janet "Kitty" Casement, an aerial photographer. When someone threatens Kitty's life, Challis enlists his team to probe a maze of connections involving a loan shark and a letter-writing crank known as the Meddler. As the story neatly advances from the viewpoints of characters both major and minor, Disher artfully employs misdirection to conceal the identity of the criminal targeting the photographer. Even unsympathetic figures like the Meddler and a lecherous, reactionary police officer come across as three-dimensional. While Disher is not yet in the same league as a Peter Robinson or an Ian Rankin, fans of those authors will find much to like in this dark whodunit. Agent, Jenny Darling (Australia). (July 6) Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Procedural fans looking for something a little different will devour this one. It's the second Detective Inspector Hal Challis mystery (originally published in the author's native Australia), and it finds Challis embroiled in another case involving murder, murder, and more murder. Disher, who has been writing crime novels for almost two decades, has the procedural form down cold, but he adds enough dark overtones to elevate the series into the Ian Rankin league. (Challis' wife, for example, is currently in prison, serving time for being an accessory to attempted murder--the intended victim being Challis himself.) Unlike Rankin's Rebus novels, or any of the other noir-tinged procedurals, the Challis tales do not take place in an urban setting. In Disher's hands, however, the rural Australian backdrop generates plenty of its own menace. Tell procedural devotees to take a break from the familiar American and British mean streets and sample a little noir under the Australian sun. David Pitt Copyright � American Library Association. All rights reserved An Unidentified Man Is Fished Out Of The Sea With An Anchor Strapped To His Waist. This Sparks The Beginning Of A Chilling Series Of Shotgun Killings. Challis Finds Some Aerial Possesion In The Possession Of His Friend, Kitty, That Link Her To The Murders. Garry Disher. A Detective Inspector Challis Murder Mystery--cover. There was a time when Neil Quiller's logbooks kept him safe in the air, but it's 1941 now, he's a photo-reconnaissance pilot in Malaya, and Kimberley landmarks are no good to him at all. Betrayed by a spy and shot down over the jungle, he escapes to Singapore and begins a treacherous journey home. It's December and the police of the sleepy Australian Peninsula towns are preparing for the usual summer madness - beach houses broken into and joyriding kids. But this year there's a killer at work and someone is torching houses and cars. For DI Hal Challis, the Peninsula will never be the same. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor wrapped around his waist. For DI Hal Challis this sparks the beginning of a mysterious series of deaths and strange events. As he investigates, an unstable farmer erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. Winner Of The German Crime Fiction Critics Award 2001 And Shortlisted For The Ned Kelly Award, This Taut, Complex Crime Novel Is Being Re-released To Coincide With The Publication Of Disher's Latest Instalment Of The Detective Inspector Hal Challis Series, Kittyhawk Down.