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Title: Hell to Pay

Author: Garry Disher

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-14

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Constable Paul Hirschhausen - "Hirsch" - is a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australia's southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in rustic, backwater "wool and wheat" country three hours north. Hirsch is more than just a disgraced cop, a rumored whistle-blower - internal investigations is still trying to convict him of something, even if it means planting evidence, and someone has a bullet they'd like to put in his head, as has been made clear by the pistol cartridge left in his mailbox.

Hirsch is just trying to keep his job, but the tiny town of Tiverton has more crime than one lone cop should have to handle. The stagnant economy, rural isolation, and entrenched racism and misogyny mean every case Hirsch investigates is a new basket of snakes. And when the body of a 16-year-old local girl is found on the side of the highway, the situation gets even more sinister. Whether or not he finds her killer, there's going to be hell to pay.

Members Reviews:

An extremely well-written book dealing with very timely issues.

First Sentence: On a Monday morning in September, three weeks into the job, the Tiverton policeman took a call from his sergeant: shots fired on Bitter Wash Road.

Paul Hirschhausen ("Hirsch") has been demoted to Constable, and sent to back-of-beyond Australia where he's mistrusted and berated by his "fellow" officers. Internal Investigations in Adelaide is still after him, trying to convict him of something and willing to plant evidence to do it. In the meantime, even in his remote locate, there are crimes to be solved, including the body of a 16-year-old girl found by the side of the road.

If one ever read Rhys Bowen's "Hamish Macbeth" series, Hirsch's posting will remind one of that. However, that is the only similarity. Disher takes us about as far as possible from Hamish's Scotland, down to Southern Australia, but acquaints us with the area with wonderfully visual descriptions..."October gathered its skirts and raced past."

Disher provides very good backstory on Hirsch. The inclusion of his inquest was both interesting, but allows for his speculation as to why some cops go bad. We also see the frustration of a god cop working for, and with, bad cops; the blindness of "the thin blue line, and how corrupting that can be. On the other hand, it is interesting to see the diversity of calls to which a rural cop must respond and the relationship he must maintain with the community.

Disher does a wonderful job building up the suspense and tension. One can't help but appreciate the source from which Hirsch's rescue comes.

"Hell to Pay" is an excellent read; an extremely well-written book dealing with very timely issues.

HELL TO PAY (Pol Proc - Const. Paul Hirschhausen-Adelaide, Australia-Contemp) - Ex

Disher, Garry - Standalone

Soho Crime - June, 2014

Hooked on what he Dishes up

This was the first disher book I read, I have since consumed a number of others including the first 4 Challis and Destry novels.