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Summary: Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his crew, searching for a serial killer operating in a beachside town outside Melbourne, Australia, feel a new sense of urgency when the daughter of one of the police sergeants is abducted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry
Summary: "The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry.
Summary: "The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available in the United States at last! Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry.
Summary: Hoping for a straightforward jewel heist, Wyatt is forced to partner with Eddie Oberin and Eddie's intelligent ex-wife, Lydia, who possesses critical inside information, in a plot that proves unexpectedly complicated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISDisher, Garry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2007
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Summary: Drugging his former police officer girlfriend and fleeing with a cache of stolen gems he subsequently discovers are fakes, enduring thief Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with his estranged nephew to engineer a complicated heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
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Summary: Combining maverick strategies and old-style methods in his work as a thief, Wyatt eludes authorities while managing lucrative heists until a diamond-studded Tiffany brooch and an infatuation with the wrong girl pits him against dangerous adversaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012