21 January 2025

Review: SANCTUARY, Garry Disher

Synopsis (publisher)

Grace is a talented thief ready for a normal life. Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel’s rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different. A weekday job. A place to call home.

But someone is looking for Erin. And someone’s looking for Grace, too. And they are both, in their own ways, very dangerous men.

My Take

The Canberra Times calls Garry Disher "Arguably Australia's greatest living crime fiction writer." and they are not wrong.

For me what was so entrancing about this story is that it is set mainly locally, in the Adelaide Hills, in places that I know well. And yet the themes are fresh and new. 

In the character of Grace, Disher is looking at life from the "other side", harking back to the days when his central character was Wyatt, a small time thief. He looks carefully at the factors that go into the making of a small time criminal, and Grace Latimer comes alive for us, and we find that she is not alone, in fact she is constantly in danger.

Well worth reading. Will we meet Grace again?

My rating: 4.8

I've also read

4.7, WYATT
4.8, WHISPERING DEATH
4.7, BLOOD MOON
4.2, THE HEAT
4.5, SIGNAL LOSS
4.7, HER
4.9, UNDER THE COLD BRIGHT LIGHTS
4.7, KILL SHOT
5.0, BITTER WASH ROAD - Hirsch #1 - aka HELL TO PAY
5.0, PEACE- Hirsch #2
5.0, CONSOLATION - Hirsch #3
4.7, DAY'S END, Garry Disher- Hirsch #4
4.8, THE WAY IT IS NOW

About the author

Garry Disher has published sixty 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.

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