Garry Disher Books in Order
Garry Disher has written 57 books, published between 1981 and 2025. The first book is Approaches (1981) and the newest is Mischance Creek (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 57
- Published
- 1981–2025
- Confirmed
- 57 of 57 titles
- Pages on record
- 7,252 in 31 of 57 books
- Reading time
- 121–181 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,252 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 31 of 57 titles with a page count on record.
Garry Disher, born 15 August 1949 in Burra, South Australia, is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's books and a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. The Wyatt thrillers follow a master thief in Melbourne. Police officers Hal Challis and Ellen Destry work the Mornington Peninsula in the Peninsula Crimes procedurals. Constable Paul Hirschhausen polices rural South Australia, north of Adelaide, in the Hirsch books. The catalogue lists 57 books from Approaches (1981) to Mischance Creek (2025).
How many Garry Disher books are there?
Garry Disher has 57 books, released between 1981 and 2025. They include 4 separate series.
Garry Disher Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 57 Garry Disher books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119811373/4
- 2Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the CraftGarry Disher Non-Fiction #11984 · 217 pages · confirmed 3/419842173/4
- 319871613/4
- 41987–3/4
- 519881633/4
- 61988–3/4
- 7Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Marketing Prose and ScriptsGarry Disher Non-Fiction #31989 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/419891603/4
- 81990–3/4
- 919912003/4
- 1019913533/4
- 1119911493/4
- 1219921733/4
- 131992793/4
- 141992–3/4
- 1519932123/4
- 1619931853/4
- 1719942093/4
- 181995–3/4
- 1919952603/4
- 201995–3/4
- 211995723/4
- 2219962143/4
- 231996–3/4
- 241996883/4
- 2519972543/4
- 2619972883/4
- 271997–3/4
- 2819981533/4
- 2919992393/4
- 3019993203/4
- 312000–3/4
- 3220013343/4
- 332001–3/4
- 342002–3/4
- 3520032753/4
- 362004–3/4
- 372004–3/4
- 3820053373/4
- 3920074023/4
- 402009–3/4
- 4120103363/4
- 4220113683/4
- 4320112603/4
- 4420133093/4
- 452013–3/4
- 462015–3/4
- 4720163453/4
- 482017–3/4
- 492017–3/4
- 502018–3/4
- 512019–3/4
- 522020–3/4
- 532020–3/4
- 542021–3/4
- 552022–3/4
- 562024–3/4
- 572025–3/4
Garry Disher books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Garry Disher Standalone Novels
23 books23 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Wyatt in order
9 books- 1. Kickback
- 2. Paydirt
- 3. Deathdeal
- 4. Crosskill
- 5. Port Vila Blues
- 6. The Fallout
- 7. Wyatt
- 8. The Heat
- 9. Kill Shot
Inspector Challis in order
7 booksGarry Disher Short Story
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Paul Hirschhausen in order
5 booksGarry Disher Non-Fiction
4 books4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Garry Disher in order
3 booksAfter Dark in order
1 book- 28. The Half Dead
Do you have to read Garry Disher books in order?
You only need to read Garry Disher books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Garry Disher
Start with Approaches (1981), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Garry Disher book?
Mischance Creek (2025) is the newest Garry Disher book released so far.
Is there a new Garry Disher book coming?
No next Garry Disher book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Awards Garry Disher has won
Wikidata records 3 awards and 1 nomination for Garry Disher. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.
- German Crime Fiction Award2017Won
- Ned Kelly Awards2007Wonfor Chain of Evidence
- German Crime Fiction Award2000Won
- Colin Roderick Award2020Shortlisted
Garry Disher at a glance
- Still publishing
- Garry Disher published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Garry Disher books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 7,252 pages across the 31 of 57 books with a recorded length, a median of 217 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Garry Disher books, 23 of 57, were published in the 1990s.
What the Garry Disher books are about
33 of the 57 Garry Disher books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: australia is tagged on 9 of 33. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Australia 9 of 33 books
- Police 8 of 33 books
- Ellen Destry (Fictitious character) 7 of 33 books
- Hal Challis (Fictitious character) 7 of 33 books
- Mystery & detective 7 of 33 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 5 of 33 books
- Children's fiction 4 of 33 books
- Crime 4 of 33 books
- Social life and customs 4 of 33 books
- Australian Short stories 3 of 33 books
- Jewel thieves 3 of 33 books
- Mystery & detective, hard-boiled 3 of 33 books