Synopses & Reviews
“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 the Trade Paperback edition.
Synopsis
"Taut and terrific,
Kittyhawk Downis crime fiction at itsbest."-
The Age"Compelling and atmospheric."-The Weekend Australian
"A dark, absorbing read."-Australian Booksellers &Publishers
"[An] excellent thriller."-Melbourne Weekly
Homicide detectives spend their working lives around murderers,but rarely are they related to one. Inspector Challis'wife is that exception. She is serving a long term for an attemptedmurder because she tried to kill her husband: HalChallis. It's given him new insights into the criminal mind,and also enormous pain. But he's moved on, dating a newspapereditor he's taken with and making friends. Two crimesinterrupt. A two-year-old girl has gone missing, and an unidentifiedman is fished out of the sea at Bushrangers Bay.A second murder cuts into his life. This time, it's a friend,a woman who ran an aerial photography service. Her workprovides the clues linking the crimes.
Garry Disheris the author of over 40 books for adults andchildren. His crime fiction includes numerous anthologystories and the Wyatt novels, including Kickback, winner of the2000 German Critics Prize for Crime Fiction.
About the Author
Garry Disher is the author of over forty books for adults and children. His crime fiction includes numerous anthology stories and the Wyatt novels, including Kickback, winner of the 2000 German Crime Fiction Critics Prize. The first in his Detective Inspector Challis murder mystery series, The Dragon Man, won the German Crime Fiction Critics Prize in 2001. Chain of Evidence won Australia's Ned Kelly Award.