Cover art for Mischance Creek
Published
Text Publishing, September 2025
ISBN
9781923058484
Format
Softcover, 448 pages
Dimensions
0.1cm × 0.1cm × 0.1cm

Mischance Creek The gripping new book in the bestselling Australian crime series (Hirsch series 5)

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Due September 30, 2025.
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'Hirsch is one of my favourite characters...Unmissable.' HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, author of Dirt Town

'Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' TONY BIRCH

'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' CHRIS HAMMER

Mischance Creek is the next in the Australian rural crime series by bestselling author Garry Disher, featuring beloved local copper Hirsch.

Hirsch is checking firearms. The regular police audit- all weapons secured, ammo stored separately, no unauthorised person with keys to the gun safe. He's checking people, too. The drought is hitting hard in the mid-north, and Hirsch is responsible for the welfare of his scattered flock of battlers, bluebloods, loners and miscreants.

He isn't usually called on for emergency roadside assistance. But with all the other services fully stretched, it's Hirsch who has to grind his way out beyond the Mischance Creek ruins to where some clueless tourist has run into a ditch.

As it turns out, though, Annika Nordrum isn't exactly a tourist. She's searching for the body of her mother, who went missing seven years ago. And the only sense in which she's clueless is the lack of information unearthed by the cops who phoned in the original investigation.

Hirsch owes it to Annika to help, doesn't he? Not to mention that tackling a cold case beats the hell out of gun audits and admin...

'A master at controlling his material, taking his readers along the dusty, rutted roads that always pop up when we expect bitumen smoothness. But it's a journey worth taking, for the pure joy of the writing.' Herald Sun

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