Sanctuary

A thief finds she cannot outrun her past in this standalone thriller from one of Australia’s most esteemed crime authors.

Grace is a thief—a good one. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid, specializing in small, high-value items like stamps and watches. But it’s a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It’s not the life she wants.

Then a run-in with an old associate forces her to lie low in a small rural town, where she happens across an antiques shop. The owner Erin is timid but friendly, and has a room to rent. And Grace glimpses a different life, and perhaps a home.

But there are dangerous men watching her, and Grace should know better than to let her guard slip. Because no matter how far she runs, her past is always just a few steps behind…

Exciting . . . Disher keeps the narrative taut without skimping on character development.”
—Publishers Weekly

An intricate thriller with a surprisingly sympathetic search for security and family by master thieves.”
—Kirkus

It’s great that crime readers outside the Antipodes are being introduced to the greatness of Garry Disher.”
—Ian Rankin

Arguably Australia’s greatest living crime writer.”
—Canberra Times

Disher is a master at controlling his material, taking his readers along the dusty, rutted roads that always pop up when we expect bitumen smoothness. But it’s a journey worth taking, for the pure joy of the writing.”
—Herald Sun

Garry Disher lives in Australia and has published sixty titles across multiple genres. With a growing international reputation for his best-selling crime novels, he has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.