β Scribed by Garry Disher
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin's mother went missing near the family beach shackβbelieved murdered; body never found. His father has lived under a cloud of suspicion ever since.
Now Charlie's back living in the shack in Menlo Beach, on disciplinary leave from his job with the police sex-crimes unit, and permanent leave from his marriage. After two decades worrying away at the mystery of his mother's disappearance, he's run out of leads.
Then the skeletal remains of two people are found in the excavation of a new building siteβand the past comes crashing in on Charlie.
The Way It Is Now is the enthralling new novel from Garry Disher, one of Australia's most loved and celebrated crime writers.
Garry Disher has published over fifty titles across multiple genres. With a growing international reputation for his best-selling crime novels, he has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
'Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' Tony Birch
'Disher is the gold standard for rural noir.' Chris Hammer
'A giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters.' Ned Kelly Awards
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