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The Way it is Now
by Garry Disher
The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher
Disher’s latest one-off mystery is an exciting addition to the catalogue of Australian crime fiction. Set on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the book weaves a web of corrupt coppers, family breakdown and missing loved ones as a frame to explore attitudes towards male violence, toxic masculinity and the complex web of loyalties, obligations, resentments and love that all families navigate.
The likeable, flawed lead character Charlie is a burned-out policeman, emerging from a failed marriage and haunted by his mother's disappearance twenty years earlier. The book charts Charlie’s journey towards self-reflection via a burgeoning new relationship coinciding with an enforced spell with a psychologist after the tussle with his misogynistic boss that led to his suspension.
The crime element of the novel is well-crafted, with excellent characterisations and clever plotting. While the story takes a little time to get going, the book moves at a good pace and in interesting and unexpected directions once the main elements are in place.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ½
Disher’s latest one-off mystery is an exciting addition to the catalogue of Australian crime fiction. Set on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the book weaves a web of corrupt coppers, family breakdown and missing loved ones as a frame to explore attitudes towards male violence, toxic masculinity and the complex web of loyalties, obligations, resentments and love that all families navigate.
The likeable, flawed lead character Charlie is a burned-out policeman, emerging from a failed marriage and haunted by his mother's disappearance twenty years earlier. The book charts Charlie’s journey towards self-reflection via a burgeoning new relationship coinciding with an enforced spell with a psychologist after the tussle with his misogynistic boss that led to his suspension.
The crime element of the novel is well-crafted, with excellent characterisations and clever plotting. While the story takes a little time to get going, the book moves at a good pace and in interesting and unexpected directions once the main elements are in place.
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ½