Peter Temple

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January 01, 1946 in South Africa

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Crime fiction

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Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.

Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels (Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog) are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist. He has also written three stand-alone novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day (Identity Theory in the US), as well as The Broken Shore and its sequel, Truth. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the most recent in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Award for best Aust...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 2,048 ratings · 418 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Broken Shore 3.62 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2005 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Truth 3.54 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 2009 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Bad Debts (Jack Irish, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1996 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Black Tide 3.75 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions	My rating:
	An Iron Rose 3.84 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Dead Point 3.84 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	My rating:
	In the Evil Day 3.36 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2004 — 16 editions	My rating:
	White Dog 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Shooting Star 3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	My rating:
	A Peter Temple Omnibus: The Broken Shore, In The Evil Day, An Iron Rose 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Series by Peter Temple

Jack Irish (4 books)
by Peter Temple

3.74 avg rating — 434 ratings

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Quotes by Peter Temple

“I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like...coming out.”
― Peter Temple, Black Tide

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“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre."
Villani: “So you can’t rule out an accident?”
― Peter Temple, Truth

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