TY - BOOK AU - Disher,Garry TI - Peace SN - 9781922268150 AV - PR8260.I78 P43 2019 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Melbourne, Victoria PB - Text Publishing KW - Pastoral fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Suspense fiction KW - Farm life KW - fast KW - Abusive men KW - Country life KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Police KW - Australian fiction KW - Fiction KW - Australia KW - Rural conditions KW - South Australia KW - Flinders Ranges KW - Flinders Ranges (S.A.) KW - Crime-Australia KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - 21st century KW - Christmas fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Tertiary/Undergraduate; General N2 - Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders Ranges. He's still new in town but the community work - welfare checks and working bees - is starting to pay off. Now Christmas is here and, apart from a grass fire, two boys stealing a ute and Brenda Flann entering the front bar of the pub without exiting her car, Hirsch's life has been peaceful. Until he's called to a strange, vicious incident in Kitchener Street. And Sydney police ask him to look in on a family living outside town on a forgotten back road. Suddenly, it doesn't look like a season of goodwill at all ER -