Blood Moon
By (Author) Garry Disher
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
1st December 2009
5th edition
Australia
General
Fiction
A823
Winner of Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2009 (Australia)
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
228g
When hordes of 18-year-old schoolies descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the last of their exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. Maybe even drink-spiking and sexual assault. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. The victim is connected, and now Detective Inspector Hal Challis is facing interference from on high. Newly embarked on a relationship with his Sergeant, Ellen Destry, Challis doesn't really need the brass looking over his shoulder. Then a bludgeoned corpse is found outside town, and it's clear something much darker than adolescent craziness is going down.
`MasterfulThe action is taut and every line of dialogue rings as clearly as a bell. Blood Moon is a fine example of just how good crime writing can be. * Australian *
`Easily the equal ofJohn Harvey, Ian Rankin and other leaders. * Canberra Times *
`A rare pleasure. * New York Times *
Blood Moon is the fifth in Garry Disher's series of novels featuring Hal Challis and Ellen Destry. The first, The Dragon Man, won the German Crime Fiction Prize and the fourth, Chain of Evidence, won the 2007 Ned Kelly Award.