Garry Disher's novels are an essential and influential part of Australian crime fiction, and have seen him acknowledged with the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

His latest, Consolation, is the third book to follow Paul Hirschhausen, a constable working in a small town, somewhere between Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges.

In the Drawing Room, Disher discusses community, mysteries, and his own experience growing up in regional Australia.