Consolation by Garry Disher

Book Description

Secondhand. Good to very good condition. Wear to book edges, with front cover right corners now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are still very good.

Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter Wash Road.

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women's underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime, how it can escalate, not to take it lightly.

However, the more immediate concerns are a call from the high school, a teacher worried about a student who may be in danger at home. Another call, a different school, a man enraged about the principal's treatment of his daughter. A little girl in harm's way and an elderly woman in danger. An absent father who isn't where he's supposed to be; another who flees to the back country armed with a rifle.

Families under pressure. And the cold, seeping feeling that something is very, very wrong. (publisher blurb)