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Publication Order of Wyatt Books

Kickback (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paydirt (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Deathdeal (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Crosskill (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Port Vila Blues (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Fallout (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wyatt (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Heat (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kill Shot (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Inspector Challis Books

The Dragon Man (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kittyhawk Down (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Snapshot (2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Chain of Evidence (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blood Moon (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Whispering Death (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Signal Loss (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Paul Hirschhausen Books

Hell to Pay / Bitter Wash Road (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Peace (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Consolation (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Day's End (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Steal Away (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Stencil Man (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Bamboo Flute (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ratface (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Switch Cat (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blame The Wind (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sunken Road (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ermyntrude Takes Charge (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Apostle Bird (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Divine Wind (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From Your Friend, Louis Deane. (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Past The Headlands (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Moondyne Kate (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Maddie Finn (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Two-way Cut (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eva's Angel (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Play Abandoned (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Good One, Erm (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Her (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Under the Cold Bright Lights (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Approaches (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Difference To Me (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Flamingo Gate (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Restless: Stories of Flight and Fear (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Straight, Bent And Barbara Vine (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Personal Best (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Personal Best 2 (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Below the Waterline (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Australia Then & Now (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Marketing Prose and Scripts (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bushrangers (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of After Dark Books

The Bent-Back Bridge (By: Gary Crew,Gregory Rogers) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Crow (By: Tom Jellett,Peter Lawrance) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Giant Spiders (By: Stephen Measday,Mark L. Wilson) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Carriers (By: Tom Jellet,Jonathan Harlen) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Bent-Back Bridge (By: Gary Crew,Gregory Rogers) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Twist in the Tale (By: Laine Hall) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Barn (By: Gary Crew,Tom Jellet) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Barn (By: Gary Crew,Tom Jellet) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Tunnel (By: Matthew Condon,Malcolm Liddell) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Vampires (By: Cameron Rogers) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Silver Eyes (By: Jackie French) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Misteri Sumur Tua (By: Gary Crew) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Bats (By: David Miller,Gavin Warner) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Rings (By: Jenny Pausacker) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Goddess (By: Robin Klein,Anne Spudvilas) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mouth (By: Carmel Bird,Anita Mertzlin) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Stray Cat (By: Shaun Tan) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Snake Man (By: Peter Gouldthorpe,James Moloney) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pipe (By: James Moloney) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wombat King (By: Mark L. Wilson,Philip Neilsen) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Peppercorn Tree (By: Sheryl Gardner) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Lie (By: Philip Neilsen) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Cannibal Virus (By: Peter Gouldthorpe,Sue Robinson) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Fort (By: Gary Crew,Gregory Rogers) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
THE GRANDSTAND (By: Gary Crew) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ghost of Love Street (By: Venero Armanno) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Darkroom (By: Steven Woolman,Gerard Ross) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Rings (By: Jenny Pausacker,Gregory Rogers) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Old Cattery (By: Shaun Tan,Nette Hilton) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Doll (By: Shaun Tan,Janine Burke) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Half Dead (With: Shaun Tan) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ghost of Deadman's Beach (By: Venero Armanno,Dominique Falla) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Crosstown Traffic(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Strange Fruit(1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Out West: Australian Dirt(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories(2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hard Labour(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dark Deeds Down Under(2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Garry Disher is a famous Australian novelist, who has written a number of novels based on the Mystery & Thriller and non-fiction genres as well as a few children’s books. He is particularly famous for writing down the successful novel series, the Inspector Challis series. Garry’s description of the main protagonist of the series, Inspector Challis was very much appreciated by the readers and the critics alike. This motivated him to continue writing a number of novels in his writing career. Garry was born in the year 1949 in Burra, Australia and was brought up on his family farm in South Australia. He completed his education from the Melbourne and Adelaide Universities and obtained his postgraduate degrees. He was awarded with a fellowship in creative writing by the Stanford University in the year 1978. It was during his studying days in the same university when he wrote his first collection of short stories. In his career as an author, Garry has traveled to a lot of overseas places before returning back to Australia. At first he began teaching creative writing to the university students and eventually became a full time writer in the year 1988. The list of novels written by Garry includes around 40 titles based on general category and crime fiction genre, textbooks, children’s books and books related to the craft of writing. Garry’s unique style of writing novels helped him to become one of the best-known authors of Australia. He had decided to become a writer from his childhood after getting influenced by the bedtime stories of his father, the isolated farm life and his love for reading various categories of books. After completing his education, Garry traveled to a number of places in Europe, U.K and Africa in relation to his work.

After returning to Australia from various trips abroad, Garry decided to write a Master thesis based on the history of Australia, at the Monash University situated in Victoria. In the meantime, he used to write several short stories for some literary magazines and competitions. After writing a few exciting short stories, Garry was successful in obtaining the fellowship in creative writing from the Stanford University. Before becoming a full time author, Garry Disher used to teach creative writing for a few years in Melbourne, in order to earn some extra income. At this time, he had already published a couple novels, several history textbooks, a writer’s handbook and two short story collections. Apart from writing fiction, non-fiction and children’s books, Garry has also written a few anthologies and has also worked as an editor for some of them. The crime novels written by Garry have earned widespread reputation and international acclaim. The novels written by him have also been published in different editions in England, Denmark, USA, Spain, Holland, Hungary, Germany, and Italy. Garry has toured Germany for a couple of times on author tours and has been awarded with a major crime fiction award on both the occasions. He has appeared on the bestseller lists for a number of times and has also been the guest of the Cologne and Munich writers’ festivals. Following the rave reviews for one of his novels, Garry toured the USA in the year 2009. During this tour, one of his novels was listed as the Best Book Of The Year by the Kirkus Review magazine. Recently, Garry Disher has been in a great demand for hosting workshops, talks and festival appearances. He has also been the writer-in-residence at the State library of Queensland, the Tasmanian Writers’ Union and the University of Northumbria in United Kingdom. Currently, Garry lives on the Mornington Peninsula in the southeast Melbourne along with his wife and a daughter.

One of the novel series written by Garry Disher is the Inspector Challis series, which is based on the life of the main protagonist of the series named Inspector Hal Challis, who works on the Peninsula in Southeast Melbourne, Australia, as a Detective Inspector. The series consists of a total of 6 books published between the years 1999 and 2011. The first novel of the series was titled ‘The Dragon Man’ and was published by the Soho Crime publishing house in the year 1999. The novel deals with the first investigation of the series by the main character, Detective Inspector Hal Challis. In the opening plot of the novel, a serial killer is depicted as roaming freely in the small coastal town situated on the outskirts of Melbourne and claiming the lives of the innocent people of the town. Inspector Hal Challis and his team are given the difficult job of catching the serial killer before he kills someone else. Other than the cases involving tough investigations, Inspector Challis is also required to deal with the editor of a local newspaper, who keeps a track of his investigations and reports them in his newspaper. Hal Challis also has to deal with his wife, who tries to save their marriage through long distance calls from a sanitarium, where has been admitted for the past 8 years in order to undergo rehabilitation for an attempted murder.

The second novel of the series was published in the year 2003 by the Soho Crime publishing house. The novel was titled ‘Kittyhawk Down’ and deals with the efforts of Homicide Squad Inspector Challis to solve the criminal cases in the city and serve justice. Inspector Challis reaches the Bushrangers bay at the seaside of Australia near Melbourne in order to investigate the cases of a 2 year old missing girl and an unidentified dead body of a drowning victim. The resort community of the area does not seem to be an ideal one to Challis as petty crimes such as stealing cars, burning letter boxes, etc., often takes place regularly. One of the best friends of Inspector Challis named Kitty Casement owns a photography service and runs a Kittyhawk. The two come closer to a mutual interest in the Dragon Rapide airplane from 1935. Soon, the beautiful beach resort becomes a plot of serial killings as well as one of Kitty’s airplanes suffers huge damage. Inspector Hal Challis is required to find out the link between the cases and catch the killer before more innocent people get killed.

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One Response to “Garry Disher”

  1. Anthony loveridge: 10 months ago

    Reading Days end. Good read bloke, been there done some of that. You nailed it. Will read more, help with the retirement fund. LOL . Only read on paper, stuff the internet sh-te. Don’t stop, I read a lot. Cheers mate.

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