The Broken Shore

Informationen zum Autor Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction! Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts (1996)! Black Tide (1999)! Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2003). He has also written three other standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998)! Shooting Star (1999) and In the Evil Day (2002). He lives in Ballarat! Australia! with his family. Klappentext Broken by his last case! homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It's a peaceful existence - ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne! a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin's not so sure and as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption and prejudice! he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Temple
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2007
• EAN: 9781847240446
• ISBN: 978-1-84724-044-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 177 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Faber & Faber Paperbacks; Faber & Faber Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Australische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)