Bitter Wash Road - Softcover

"Gary Disher is one of Australia's most admired novelists. The main character in Bitter Wash Road is a smart, likeable detective banished to a rural outpost after blowing the whistle on corrupt cops in Adelaide. Hirsch has barely arrived when the body of a teenager is found, apparently hit by a truck. His investigation is hindered at every turn by colleagues who hate him, and Disher turns out to be a superb chronicler of macho cop culture." --The Sunday Times

"Bitter Wash Road is set in the dry hinterland of South Australia and features Hirsch, a uniformed constable serving in a one-officer police station, who might drive 300 kilometres a day, patrolling his beat. In addition to his daily tasks he investigates a hit-and-run death and a suspicious suicide." Excerpt from interview with the author, 28 July 2014

"A popular and prolific crime writer who, his fellow Australians claim, ought to be more highly regarded here. On the evidence of Bitter Wash Road, his admirers have a strong case...It's all assembled with great skill. Disher shows that he's a top-class writer." --The Times

"Bitter Wash Road is set in the dry hinterland of South Australia and features Hirsch, a uniformed constable serving in a one-officer police station, who might drive 300 kilometres a day, patrolling his beat. In addition to his daily tasks he investigates a hit-and-run death and a suspicious suicide." Excerpt from interview with the author, 28 July 2014 --Female First

When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate the gunfire he finds himself cut off without back up. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch's first thought is that back up is nearby and about to put a bullet in him. That is because Hirsch is a whistleblower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, now demoted and exiled to a one cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. Called a dog by his brother officers. Threats; pistol cartridge in the mailbox. But the shots on Bitter Wash Road don't tally with Hirsch's assumptions. The truth turns out to be a lot more mundane. And the events that unfold subsequently, a hell of a lot more sinister.