25 Best thriller books like The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher

Cover of The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher

The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out …

If you liked the thriller plot in The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) by Chris Hammer

1. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Warranilla (A Nick Vada Thriller #1) by Jason Summers

2. Warranilla (A Nick Vada Thriller #1)

By: Jason Summers

3.72

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

February 1992. Billie Vada is murdered in cold blood, while her children sleep. Present day, Detect… read more

Similar categories in Jason Summers's Warranilla (A Nick Vada Thriller #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Wake (PI Lane Holland #1) by Shelley Burr

3. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Burr's Wake (PI Lane Holland #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) by Chris Hammer

4. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • murder mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor

5. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

6. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Paradise (DS Walker, #2) by Patricia Wolf

7. Paradise (DS Walker, #2)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

As DS Lucas Walker recovers from his injuries, he heads from Caloodie, Queensland, to the Gold Coas… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Wolf's Paradise (DS Walker, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) by Margaret Hickey

8. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • detective
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1) by Adrian Hyland

9. Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1)

By: Adrian Hyland

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson’s wrecked … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Hyland's Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3) by Chris Hammer

10. Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

He violated her past and haunts her present. Now he's threatening their future. She breathes deep… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Trust (Martin Scarsden, #3) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) by Chris Hammer

11. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) by Dinuka McKenzie

12. Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.00

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's … read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • detective
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2) by Adrian Hyland

13. The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2)

By: Adrian Hyland

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder made to look like an accident. A disgraced cop trying to forget his past. Nash Baker was… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Hyland's The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1) by Margaret Hickey

14. Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1)

By: Margaret Hickey

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A scintillating crime thriller, set in the South Australian outback town of Cutters End. A mysterio… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Cutters End (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Town by Shelley Burr

15. Murder Town

By: Shelley Burr

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Burr's Murder Town book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1) by Simon  Rowell

16. The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1)

By: Simon Rowell

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A summer of relentless heat. A local surfer named Ray Carlson is found dead in a house not far from… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rowell's The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3) by S.R. White

17. Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3)

By: S.R. White

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pu… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1) by S.R. White

18. Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1)

By: S.R. White

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to i… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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19. Still

By: Matt Nable

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

STILL is an evocative, confronting and page-turning thriller from a brilliant Australian writer. If… read more

Similar categories in Matt Nable's Still book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • detective
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) by Dinuka McKenzie

20. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) by Margaret Hickey

21. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher

22. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of When We Fall by Aoife Clifford

23. When We Fall

By: Aoife Clifford

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

‘It isn’t strangers you need to worry about here. Blood lines run deep and in unexpected places. Ev… read more

Similar categories in Aoife Clifford's When We Fall book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) by Dinuka McKenzie

24. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale

25. The Fall Between

By: Darcy Tindale

3.93

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough . . . It will be another two hour… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Tindale's The Fall Between book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) by Sarah   Bailey

26. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bailey's Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of White Ash Ridge by S.R. White

27. White Ash Ridge

By: S.R. White

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's White Ash Ridge book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2) by S.R. White

28. Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2)

By: S.R. White

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY?'S. R. White is the real deal.' C… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) by Peter Papathanasiou

29. The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

By: Peter Papathanasiou

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery. A local schoolteacher i… read more

Similar categories in Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Invisible (DS George Manolis, #2) by Peter Papathanasiou

30. The Invisible (DS George Manolis, #2)

By: Peter Papathanasiou

3.46

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

"Outback noir has a new star" The Times Burnt-out from policework, Detective Sergeant George Man… read more

Similar categories in Peter Papathanasiou's The Invisible (DS George Manolis, #2) book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
Cover of The Creeper by Margaret Hickey

31. The Creeper

By: Margaret Hickey

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Victim ... or killer?For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high c… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's The Creeper book and Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now

  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Chris Hammer

4.07

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Shelley Burr

3.99

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The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

Chris Hammer

4.29

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Hayley Scrivenor

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Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

Garry Disher

4.12

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Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

Shelley Burr

3.99

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The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

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