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Hirschs rural beat is wide Daybreak to days end dirt roads and dust Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties from unlicensed driving to arson In the time of the virus Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open His own tolerance under strain people getting close to the edge

Today hes driving an international visitor around Janne Van Sant whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed Theyre checking out his last photo site his last employer A feeling that the stories dont quite add up

Then a call comes in a roadside fire Nothing mucha suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight But two noteworthy facts emerge Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence And the body in the suitcase is not her sons

Disher is the gold standard for rural noir CHRIS HAMMER

This is storytelling at its best Another sophisticated and compelling offer from an author at the peak of his powers GOOD READING