Chain Of Evidence by Garry Disher, ISBN 9781921145414

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Hal Challis is 1000 kilometres away from the Peninsula, watching his father die. Ellen Destry is left to mind his house for a month. And his job.

Katie Blasko, aged nine, has disappeared. Ellen fears abduction -- the Peninsula is sleepy, picturesque, prosperous, but she suspects the existence of a paedophile ring. Superintendent McQuarrie scoffs: the girl came from the Seaview Estate, notorious for broken homes and truancy. Ellen's team investigates. They find suspects, but an officer is murdered and his witness discredited. They find DNA evidence, but the sample is contaminated. Who can Ellen trust, when lawyers, judges, and police officers might be involved?

Meanwhile, Challis feels out of time and place in the remote outback town of his youth. Past failures haunt him; his father is dying slowly and bitterly; and Homicide Squad detectives have arrived from the city to question his sister about a murder. Challis can cope with being warned off. He can cope with his father. But soon the past catches up with him.

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About the Author: Garry Disher

Garry Disher was born in South Australia in 1949. He grew up on his parents' wheat and wool farm and attended the local high school (an hour's bus ride from home). The dry wheat and wool country of his childhood is so distinct that it often appears in his stories and novels.

In 1971, Garry graduated with a BA from Adelaide University. During 1972 and 1973 he travelled extensively, living and working in the UK, Europe, Israel and Africa. Later he graduated from Monash University with an MA in Australian History and went on to further study at La Trobe University. Meanwhile, Garry had begun writing short stories for literary magazines and, on the strength of these, was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, California, in 1978. It was here that he wrote his first collection of short stories.

From 1980 to 1988, Garry taught creative writing part-time to supplement his writing income and helped design the professional writing course for the Victorian TAFE system. Since then he has written full-time and has published over thirty highly-praised books for both adults and children. His publications include novels, short story collections, history textbooks, writers' handbooks and crime thrillers.

Garry's work has received numerous awards and honours. The Bamboo Flute, a novel for children, won the 1993 Children's Book Council (CBC) Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Award. It also represented Australia at the 1994 IBBY conference in Spain, and was voted one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly USA. Two of his short story collections have been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award, and his latest novel for adults, The Sunken Road, was shortlisted for both the 1996 National Book Council Award for fiction and the South Australian Festival Award for fiction and highly praised in the UK, where it was submitted for the Booker Prize.

Many of my books and stories,' Garry says, reflect my interest in Australia's past and the effects of war and hardship on ordinary people.'

Garry's Wyatt thrillers have been called a landmark in Australian crime writing. His children's novels, such as The Bamboo Flute, Ratface, Ermyntrude Takes Charge and Walk Twenty, Run Twenty have won the hearts of children in Australia, Denmark, Holland, Italy, South America, the UK and the USA.

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