by Garry Disher
THE FOURTH CHALLIS & DESTRY NOVEL
He waited by the van’s open door, a clipboard in his hand. Surely she’d be along soon, dreamily pumping the pedals of her bike, helmet crooked on her gleaming curls, backpack bumping against her downy spine.
Twice now he’d watched her take this detour after school, down to the waterfront reserve, to the magic of the Waterloo Show. Dodgem cars, Ferris wheel, fairy floss on a stick. The Show was a magnet to all kinds of kids, but he had chosen only one.
Ten-year-old Katie Blasko is missing.
Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen, is wondering whether she’s good enough to handle this without D. I. Challis.
But Hal Challis is a thousand kilometres away, watching his father die. Ellen Destry’s running the show on her own. And if she’s right, Katie Blasko may be running out of time.
Praise for Chain of Evidence
‘As proof of the continuing high standard of Australian crime novels and thrillers, you need only pencil in Garry Disher’s Chain of Evidence as exhibit A.’ The Australian
About the Author
Garry Disher grew up in South Australia. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short-story collection. A full-time writer for many years, he is the author of more than forty titles—fiction, children’s books, anthologies, history textbooks, books about the craft of writing, and the Wyatt thrillers. With considerable local and international success—including the prestigious German Crime Fiction Prize—Disher is one of our most exciting, compassionate and diverse writers.
Paperback (C format) | ISBN: 9781921145414 | RRP: $32.95 | 384pp