`Here’s a meth head, and we’re getting fifty grand to waste him. Makes you think, right? Whatever this Valentine character did to piss off Hector’s mate, it must have been big.’

`So?’

`So he knows something.’

It’s bushfire season on Inspector Hal Challis’s patch. The fire itself isn’t Challis’s problem, but the bodies in the burnt-out Mercedes are. There’s also an epidemic of ice crimes to be dealt with. And as Challis explores a connection between the two inquiries, Ellen Destry, head of the new sex crimes unit, is on the hunt for a predator.

The seventh instalment in Garry Disher’s celebrated Peninsula Crimes series sets up new challenges, both professional and personal, for Challis and Destry. And Disher delivers with all the suspense and human complexity for which readers love him.

Garry Disher has published almost fifty titles—fiction, children's books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Peninsula Crimes series. He has won numerous awards, including the German Crime Prize (twice) and two Ned Kelly Best Crime novel awards, for Chain of Evidence (2007) and Wyatt (2010). Garry lives on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.