| The Diggers Rest Hotel | |
| Author: | Geoffrey McGeachin |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Charlie Berlin |
| Genre: | Crime novel |
| Publisher: | Penguin, Australia |
| Release Date: | 2010 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 316 |
| Isbn: | 9780670072736 |
| Preceded By: | Dead and Kicking |
| Followed By: | Blackwattle Creek |
The Diggers Rest Hotel (2010) is a crime novel by Australian author Geoffrey McGeachin. It is the first in the author's Charlie Berlin mystery series and won the 2011 Ned Kelly Award.
Charlie Berlin, a bomber pilot during World War II, rejoins the Melbourne police force after the war and in 1947 he is sent to Albury-Wodonga to investigate a series of violent robberies.
Fair Dinkum Crime found the novel to build to be a winner and that the author "has taken care with the historical detail and it gives the novel a great feeling of authenticity".[1]