num_pages: 239
description: Meet Hal Challis, Detective for the Mornington Peninsula police force in Southeast Australia, in the first investigation in this prize-winning crime series   A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder—his.
language: English
title: The Dragon Man
titlecomplete: The Dragon Man (Peninsular Crimes, #1)
characters: D.I. Hal Challis
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Australia, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Police, Crime, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 2239
places: Australia
series: Peninsula Crimes
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 1. Platz International
publisher: Soho Crime