EVENTS

July 20, 2026

Head to Waterstones at Trafalgar Square for an evening of crime and mayhem with Garry Disher and Vaseem Khan. Celebrating Garry Disher’s first ever UK tour, the pair will explore the wrong doings, the petty quarrels and the not so accidental deaths of Mischance Creek. Come along for an evening that promises to be deadly good.

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Mischance Creek

From the multiple Ned Kelly Award-winning author and king of Australian crime comes the latest Paul Hirsch mystery.

It’s the worst drought in a generation, and the people of Senior Constable Paul Hirschhausen’s vast outback beat are suffering. Foreclosures. Failing businesses. Petty quarrels that are spiraling out of control.

So when a naive tourist runs into a ditch beyond the ruins of Mischance Creek, Hirsch is relieved to step away from Tiverton. But Annika Nordrum asks for more than just roadside assistance. Her father’s body was found at the bottom of a mine-shaft seven years ago – his death ruled an accident – and her mother hasn’t been seen since. Can Hirsch close this cold case before the town reaches breaking point?

Garry Disher has published over sixty titles across multiple genres and is best known as Australia’s King of Crime. He has won the Deutscher Krimi Preis four times and the Ned Kelly Award three times. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of The Hal Challis Investigations series and standalone novels including Under the Cold Bright Lights, The Way It Is Now and Sanctuary, which was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award in 2025. His latest book Mischance Creek is the fifth book in his series The Constable Hirsch Mysteries.

Quantum of Menace

Centring on one of Ian Fleming’s most beloved characters Q (aka Major Boothroyd), this deliciously witty James Bond spin-off murder mystery finds the tech boffin investigating the suspicious death of his scientist friend after being unexpectedly ousted from his job at MI6.

Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, and the Q Mysteries, beginning with Quantum of Menace, the first in a murder mystery series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020 and is translated into 17 languages. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the CWA Historical Dagger. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. In 2023, Vaseem became the first non-white Chair of the UK Crime Writers’ Association. In 2025, his first psychological thriller, The Girl in Cell A, was published, set in small town America.