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4.5�
�‘You’re lying.�
She ran out. He didn’t follow her. In her departing words was what his life would always be. What people would always believe.�
Disgraced, demoted, but determined to stick to his story, Constable Paul Hirschhausen has been sent to a tiny, one-man cop shop in the middle of rural South Australia because he dobbed on fellow police, and in Australia, nobody likes a dobber. It doesn’t matter how crooked they were or how much damage they caused, he was told they were “colleagues� a ...more
�‘You’re lying.�
She ran out. He didn’t follow her. In her departing words was what his life would always be. What people would always believe.�
Disgraced, demoted, but determined to stick to his story, Constable Paul Hirschhausen has been sent to a tiny, one-man cop shop in the middle of rural South Australia because he dobbed on fellow police, and in Australia, nobody likes a dobber. It doesn’t matter how crooked they were or how much damage they caused, he was told they were “colleagues� a ...more
Constable Paul Hirschhausen, known to all as Hirsch, was the new cop in the rural town of Tiverton, a couple of hours north of Adelaide in South Australia. He was called a whistle-blower, hated and despised by his colleagues from the high up ranks to the lowest. Sent to this one-cop town in disgrace, his new boss was Sergeant Kropp , stationed at Redruth which was not all that far from Tiverton. But Hirsch was one of those honest cops; one who believed in the law � in being firm but compassionat
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The initial attraction for me to Bitter Wash Road was the fact that it is set near my hometown of Adelaide. I love reading books where the setting is familiar (which doesn't happen all that often unfortunately).
The small country town feel is omnipresent, personified by the one man police station, working and dilapidated farmsteads, and the 'everyone knows everyone' characteristics of rural life. This gives Bitter Wash Road a distinct and unique feel to the common lone-wolf police procedurals
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The small country town feel is omnipresent, personified by the one man police station, working and dilapidated farmsteads, and the 'everyone knows everyone' characteristics of rural life. This gives Bitter Wash Road a distinct and unique feel to the common lone-wolf police procedurals
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Great character. Stressful and gritty. Compelled to keep reading and I have subsequently started the next in the series ... I usually wait awhile. I feel as though I know the people in the story and it describes small town life well.
I really enjoyed this novel.You only have to read the first couple of pages to know that you're in the hands of a masterful writer. The sense of place is a prominent feature of this novel and even though the writing is very disciplined, it is at the same time so evocative that I could almost smell the dust and feel the searing heat of this town in the wheat belt of South Australia.
Whistleblower and disgraced cop Hirsh is a likable and believable character who is not without his flaws but still ...more
Whistleblower and disgraced cop Hirsh is a likable and believable character who is not without his flaws but still ...more
4.5+*
Excellent! A very well-written, gritty police crime story.
Paul Hirschhausen has been recently demoted & posted to a small, dry, dusty, one-police-officer town in rural South Australia. Seen by his fellow officers as whistleblowing scum & tainted with corruption, he gets little help & a very hard time. The townspeople know nothing of him & have tarred him with the same brush as the other local police - racist, brutal & intimidating. One group are trying to set him up for Internal Investigati ...more
Excellent! A very well-written, gritty police crime story.
Paul Hirschhausen has been recently demoted & posted to a small, dry, dusty, one-police-officer town in rural South Australia. Seen by his fellow officers as whistleblowing scum & tainted with corruption, he gets little help & a very hard time. The townspeople know nothing of him & have tarred him with the same brush as the other local police - racist, brutal & intimidating. One group are trying to set him up for Internal Investigati ...more
Another great find from my brother! He said to me this guy is better than Jane Harper and Chris Hammer! I said "big call", but he was spot on. Excellent story with terrific characters. The slow revelation of the protagonist's back story is really well handled. Clever plot - simple, but intriguing enough to keep you reading. I can see this guy becoming my next Mick Herron; I am going to have to read everything he has ever written! Thank heavens I am holidays. My daughter is a close Covid contact
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Paul ‘Hirsch� Hirschhausen is a whistle blower, once a promising detective, he is sent to a one cop station in South Australia’s wheatbelt. While the investigation into his boss and colleagues continues in Adelaide Hirsch is settling in to the small town of a Tiverton. His new boss, Sergeant Kropp, based in Redruth, sends him out to investigate gunshots out on Bitter Wash Road, and then he gets another call, a body has been found by the side of the road. It is a 16 year old girl, Melia Donovan,
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Peter Macinnis
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Margaret
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Dec 27, 2019
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
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