Garry Disher Reading Order

29 books (1996–2021)

Start with The Barn(By: Gary Crew,Tom Jellet), the first of 29 books in the After Dark series.

#	Title
1	The Barn(By: Gary Crew,Tom Jellet) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Bent-Back Bridge(By: Gary Crew,Gregory Rogers) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Carriers(By: Tom Jellet,Jonathan Harlen) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Crow(By: Tom Jellett,Peter Lawrance) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Giant Spiders(By: Stephen Measday,Mark L. Wilson) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Twist in the Tale(By: Laine Hall) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	Misteri Sumur Tua(By: Gary Crew) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Bats(By: David Miller,Gavin Warner) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Silver Eyes(By: Jackie French) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Tunnel(By: Matthew Condon) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Vampires(By: Cameron Rogers) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Goddess(By: Robin Klein,Anne Spudvilas) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Mouth(By: Carmel Bird,Anita Mertzlin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Snake Man(By: Peter Gouldthorpe,James Moloney) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Stray Cat(By: Shaun Tan) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Cannibal Virus(By: Peter Gouldthorpe,Sue Robinson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Darkroom(By: Steven Woolman,Gerard Ross) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Fort(By: Gary Crew,Gregory Rogers) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Ghost of Love Street(By: Venero Armanno) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Grandstand(By: Gary Crew) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Lie(By: Philip Neilsen) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Old Cattery(By: Shaun Tan,Nette Hilton) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Peppercorn Tree(By: Sheryl Gardner) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Pipe(By: James Moloney) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Rings(By: Jenny Pausacker,Gregory Rogers) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Wombat King(By: Mark L. Wilson,Philip Neilsen) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Doll(By: Shaun Tan,Janine Burke) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Half Dead(With: Shaun Tan) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Ghost of Deadman's Beach(By: Venero Armanno,Dominique Falla) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1990–2022)

Start with Personal Best, the first of 10 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Personal Best 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	Personal Best 2 1991Buy 🇺🇸
3	Crosstown Traffic 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	More Crimes for a Summer Christmas 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Strange Fruit 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Out West: Australian Dirt 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	Below the Waterline 1999Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Oxford Book of Detective Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
9	Hard Labour 2012Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dark Deeds Down Under 2022Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1999–2016)

Start with The Dragon Man, the first of 7 books in the Inspector Challis series.

#	Title
1	The Dragon Man 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kittyhawk Down 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Snapshot 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Chain of Evidence 2007Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blood Moon 2009Buy 🇺🇸
6	Whispering Death 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Signal Loss 2016Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1984–1992)

Start with Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft, the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Australia Then & Now 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Marketing Prose and Scripts 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Bushrangers 1992Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2013–2025)

Start with Hell to Pay / Bitter Wash Road, the first of 5 books in the Paul Hirschhausen series.

#	Title
1	Hell to Pay / Bitter Wash Road 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Peace 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Consolation 2020Buy 🇺🇸
4	Day's End 2022Buy 🇺🇸
5	Mischance Creek 2025Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1981–1997)

Start with Approaches, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Approaches 1981Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Difference To Me 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Flamingo Gate 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Restless: Stories of Flight and Fear 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Straight, Bent And Barbara Vine 1997Buy 🇺🇸

23 books (1987–2024)

Start with Steal Away, the first of 23 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Steal Away 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Stencil Man 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Bamboo Flute 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ratface 1993Buy 🇺🇸
5	Blame The Wind 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	Switch Cat 1995Buy 🇺🇸
7	Ermyntrude Takes Charge 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Sunken Road 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Walk Twenty, Run Twenty 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Apostle Bird 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Divine Wind 1998Buy 🇺🇸
12	From Your Friend, Louis Deane. 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Moondyne Kate 2001Buy 🇺🇸
14	Past The Headlands 2001Buy 🇺🇸
15	Maddie Finn 2002Buy 🇺🇸
16	Eva's Angel 2004Buy 🇺🇸
17	Two-way Cut 2004Buy 🇺🇸
18	Play Abandoned 2011Buy 🇺🇸
19	Good One, Erm 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	Her 2017Buy 🇺🇸
21	Under the Cold Bright Lights 2017Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Way It Is Now 2021Buy 🇺🇸
23	Sanctuary 2024Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1991–2018)

Start with Kickback, the first of 9 books in the Wyatt series.

#	Title
1	Kickback 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Paydirt 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Deathdeal 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Crosskill 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Port Vila Blues 1995Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Fallout 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Wyatt 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Heat 2015Buy 🇺🇸
9	Kill Shot 2018Buy 🇺🇸