![]() ![]() He's one of our best novelists full stop.' Sun-Herald 'Peter Temple has been described as one of Australia's best crime novelists, but he's far better than that. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries. Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. And as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go. Everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community everyone seems to want it to. Then prominent local Charles Bourgoyne is bashed and left for dead. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. But there are consequences when you've come so close to dying. He moved easily then was surer and less thoughtful. Priestly Medal, The Broken Shore is a masterpiece. Named by The Times as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade and winner of the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the Ned Kelly Award, the Colin Roderick Award and the H.T. ![]()
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