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Robert Gott

The Holiday Murders by Robert Gott

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March 2013, no. 349
Scott Macleod reviews 'The Holiday Murders' by Robert Gott

Robert Gott’s The Holiday Murders fittingly begins with steely-eyed detectives examining a gruesome crime scene on Christmas Eve, 1943. The bodies of a father and son are found broken and bloodied in the dead of night, the son nailed to the floor in a ‘savage parody’ of the Crucifixion. From the memorable opening sequence, Gott demonstrates an int ...

Snapshot by Garry Disher & A Thing of Blood by Robert Gott

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December 2005–January 2006, no. 277
Rick Thompson reviews ‘Snapshot’ by Garry Disher, ‘A Thing of Blood’ by Robert Gott and ‘Dirty Weekend’ by Gabrielle Lord

Garry Disher’s Snapshot continues his police procedural series about Mornington Peninsula detective Hal Challis, begun with Dragon Man in 1999 (before that, Disher wrote an excellent series of thrillers about a career criminal named Wyatt, starting with Kickback, 1991). Snapshot is 100 pages longer than Dragon Man, but, paradoxically, it is much more pared back, leaner and smarter about what a police procedural (PP) can be.

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