The Broken Shore (The Broken Shore #1) by Peter Temple

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his wet and wintry hometown in South Eastern Australia, running its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. All he has to do is play the country cop, repair the tumbledown family home and walk his two dogs. His recovery is interrupted when a local man is brutally attacked and left for dead. In a small town where everyone knows everyone, suspicion quickly falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin's not so sure... The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his, The Broken Shore delivers powerful, lean writing, pumping more feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page. A masterpiece of insight and passion, it is definitive proof that Peter Temple is one of the best novelists writing in any genre today.

Peter Temple is the most acclaimed crime and thriller writer in Australia. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction four times and has a legion of fans around the world. He is also the author of An Iron Rose, Shooting Star and In the Evil Day, and of four novels featuring lawyer, gambler and private eye, Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point and White Dog. He lives in Ballarat, Australia with his family.

Genres: Australia - Crime - Mystery - Thriller - Detective
Condition: Very good
Published: 2006 by Quercus
Pages: 345
ISBN: 9781905204434
Weight: 665g