Kittyhawk Down

"Taut and terrific, Kittyhawk Down is crime fiction at its best."- The Age "Compelling and atmospheric."- The Weekend Australian "A dark, absorbing read."- Australian Booksellers & Publishers "[An] excellent thriller."- Melbourne Weekly Homicide detectives spend their working lives around murderers, but rarely are they related to one. Inspector Challis' wife is that exception. She is serving a long term for an attempted murder because she tried to kill her Hal Challis. It's given him new insights into the criminal mind, and also enormous pain. But he's moved on, dating a newspaper editor he's taken with and making friends. Two crimes interrupt. A two-year-old girl has gone missing, and an unidentified man is fished out of the sea at Bushrangers Bay. A second murder cuts into his life. This time, it's a friend, a woman who ran an aerial photography service. Her work provides the clues linking the crimes. Garry Disher is the author of over 40 books for adults and children. His crime fiction includes numerous anthology stories and the Wyatt novels, including Kickback , winner of the 2000 German Critics Prize for Crime Fiction.