A Hal Challis Investigation: Blood Moon (Series #5) (Paperback)

from austcrimefiction

The Hal Challis series is really growing into something particularly interesting, as well as entertaining. There's a distinct edge to this story, there are obviously some issues which the author wants to talk about, and he's cleverly worked a number of elements of social observation and commentar...

from PhilipJHunt

Police procedural centred around a Westernport Bay town that sounds suspiciously like Hastings. Nicely paced plot with multiple possible bad guys and a couple of sub-plots adding spice and late climaxes. Liked it.

from laytonwoman3rd

An excellent entry in the Hal Challis series. Several things going on at once, both professionally and personally, with Challis and his team of detectives on the Mornington Peninsula southeast of Melbourne. Love the setting, the characters, and Disher's style. He strikes exactly the right balance...

from camelliacorner

Enticing, well paced, ordinary lives, clever crimes, interesting characters that have developed and await more development

from smik

When I recently read WHISPERING DEATH (#6 in the Challis & Destry series) I realised that I had somehow missed reading #5, BLOOD MOON. The setting of BLOOD MOON is Schoolies Week, a week at the end of the school year when those finishing their schooling cut loose in various resorts all over Austr...