A thrilling new standalone from one of Australia’s most esteemed crime authors.
SANCTUARY
by Garry Disher
Text Publishing, April 2024
Grace is good at theft. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high value items—stamps, watches—and she knows her Jaeger- LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it’s not the life she wants.
Then, 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 normal job. A place to call home.
But someone is looking for Grace. And someone’s looking for Erin, too.
And they are both, in their own ways, very dangerous men.
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 has been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger Award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.
Twenty years ago Charlie Deravin’s mother went missing near the family beach shack—believed 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 site—and the past comes crashing in on Charlie.