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    Signal Loss
    Signal Loss
    Signal Loss
    Audiobook10 hours

    Signal Loss

    Written by Garry Disher

    Narrated by Colin McPhillamy

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    About this audiobook

    A pair of hit men working a job for a meth kingpin have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a drug lab and two bodies burned up in a Mercedes. Sergeant Ellen Destry-newly minted head of her department's sex crime unit-and Inspector Hal Challis return in this newest installment of Gary Disher's Peninsula-based crimes series. With meth-related crime on the rise, interdepartmental tensions mount, and Challis soon finds himself fighting to keep control of his case. Meanwhile, Destry is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues. A tense, human, at times darkly funny entry into Disher's celebrated, Ned Kelly Award-winning series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 12, 2017
    ISBN9781501965685
    Signal Loss
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    Garry Disher

    Garry Disher is a genre-defining writer of Australian crime fiction, hailed as 'the gold standard for rural noir' by Chris Hammer, and as 'one of Australia's finest writers' by The Times. He has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the German Crime Prize three times and the Ned Kelly Award twice. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

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    • 5/5
      I was in the mood for a good police procedural, and this delivered, as Garry Disher novels always do. Also, I have discovered a delightful piece of Australian vocabulary: 'whipper-snipper' for strimmer. I plan to use it myself in future.
    • 3/5
      The last available entry in the Hal Challis series, as of this writing (May 2021). A lot of characters, a lot of threads in a bit of a tangle, and a rather incomprehensible competition between Challis and Destry's teams and a Senior Sergeant from the drug squad over who's going to "get" the bad guys who are distributing drugs, raping women and putting children at risk. Just a tad too much of everything. This one needed one less complication. I had a lot of trouble buying the Sergeant who would do anything to score an arrest and to hell with the missing six-year-old. Her stupidity got her shot in the end, but she should have been relieved before it went that far.
    • 4/5
      This was an intriguing book. Some of the plotlines seemed unrelated but were cleverly linked in the end. I had some trouble keeping the characters straight, at first, but that's probably because I haven't read the other books in the series. It can be read as a standalone, though. I also liked how it's Australian but doesn't push it too much as an emphasis.I received my copy for free through Goodreads First Reads.
    • 5/5
      Gritty crime novel!Set in the Mornington Peninsula region, south-east of Melbourne, Australia, makes this a fascinating read, as I happen to know that region reasonably well. So I was already hooked. But then again Garry Disher is one of my fav. authors. Local knowledge gives solidarity and legs to any reading.The novel deals with drugs, deals, stolen equipment, and a serial rapist.Laconic Inspector Hal Challis of the Drug Squad and his girlfriend Sergeant Ellen Destry of the Sex Crimes Unit find their cases merging.The spread of methane-ice and it's consequences are devastating, the squalor real.Like a fast-paced, noir criminal journalist, Disher leads us across state lines whilst paying attention to the minutiae that surrounds the desolate fate of the addict and the effect on those around them. Disher uses the background of rural Australia as a launching place for the very real issue of drugs on local communities, all the while spinning a mesmerizing story that weaves in and out of criminal, victims and law enforcers lives.One cannot fault Disher's vivid prose. The situations come to life in that bald, bare way that is so nuanced and yet simultaneously in your face.By the way I really like the cover!A NetGalley ARC
    • 5/5
      The opening chapter of Garry Disher's latest Hal Challis investigation, Signal Loss, is tense, very human, and even darkly funny-- and it does what it's supposed to do: grab your attention and make you want to read as quickly as you can all the way to the very last page. Disher is a master of Australian noir, and although the emphasis in this book is more on the investigations than it is the characters' personal lives, you still know what's happening to them when they're not at work. At work, Challis assigns Pam Murphy a case that zeroes in on one of her personal prejudices, and the young woman realizes that she's got a lot to learn about human nature. There's also a (human) cougar on the prowl. She's head of the drug squad, and when she's not after all the glory, she's eyeing some of the men. I would've rolled my eyes, but these women-- and men-- do exist.The interaction between characters is very good, but the investigations are even better, and readers can learn how things like Facebook are now being used to fight crime. You can also increase your knowledge of Australian slang, and with a smartphone close at hand, it's only a matter of seconds to learn what is being said if the meaning isn't clear in the context (and it usually is).I haven't managed to read every book in this series, but I didn't feel lost while immersed in Signal Loss. Garry Disher is an excellent writer, and if you haven't read any of his work, I do recommend him.
    • 5/5
      An impressive police procedural in an Australian rural setting, the Mornington Peninsula, depicting Victoria Police facing modern issues that are facing police the world over: the impact of ice on local communities, sex crimes, theft, and gangs. The plot strands are woven together with human interest stories, and keep the reader connected to the very end.Within, the Victoria Police faces other issues too: an aging police force, the importance of technology, the use of DNA, competition between various police departments for the "final kill", and the possibility of burn out when the job takes on a 24/7 aspect. Disher presents well the aspects of modern life that confront ordinary civilians.A recommended read.