Garry Disher: Consolation, Viper/Serpents Tail, 9781788168175, paperback

I am a big fan of Garry Disher's "rural noir" writing as one critic called it, perfected in the character of Constable Hirschhausen. 

Hirsch was reposted to the Australian outback town Tiverton when he would not be part of a dirty cop operation in Adelaide. In this third Hirsch novel the creepiness behind ordinary peoples lives is again so brilliantly observed whether it is a farmer going on a rampage, someone  stealing womens underwear from a clothline, Hirsch being stalked, child neglect or missing money from elderly citizens bank accounts. 

Disher's plots are always a slow built up which somehow makes the characters and more often than not their weirdness too  stand out that much more. And there is always a murder as a result  in this gloomy God forsaken place  which he so fabulously portraits.

 Five stars from me and damn, now have to wait a while for  Hirsch 4!