Another standalone thriller from the Australian crime fiction master, Garry Disher. In Sanctuary, a professional thief, someone who spends her days watchful, living with fake IDs, stumbles into an antique shop job in a South Australian country town. Perhaps now is the time to settle down. But her boss, a reclusive woman, has a past that attracts trouble, a description that aptly also fits our thief heroin, and before long bad people come calling. Disher is a maestro at the fascinating details of shadowy criminals and their crimes, and in Sanctuary, his villains are just as compelling as his hero. The minutiae of crimes and cons and general malfeasance, as well as of subterfuge and evasion, form the propelling force of the plot, and the author never lets the reader rest for a chapter. Sanctuary is Disher near his best and makes for a breathless read. Wonderful.
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