false 1134743 17 Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is - one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. <i>The Broken Shore</i>, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community - everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong. Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing as well as Australia's major prize for crime fiction, the Ned Kelly Award, <i>The Broken Shore </i>is a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten. 1121977 2005 The Broken Shore: A Novel total:232|5:40|4:89|3:67|2:25|1:11| 232 818 455 90 1 3 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Aug 13 15:12:18 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 15:34:17 -0700 2007 Temple, Peter – Standalone
Quercus, 2006- UK Hardcover
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When I was in Australia a few years ago, a fellow librarian and good friend recommended Peter Temple's The Broken Shore to me. So I got a copy, read it there and was just blown away by how good it was. At th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 22:45:49 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 18:36:08 -0800 2008
The main character was fleshed out, altho' I must agree wi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 20:13:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:13:32 -0700 2009 once more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 30 14:35:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 14:35:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 14 18:26:17 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 18:27:03 -0800 2009 The only problem with this book is that the narrator was so authentic, at least to my ears, that I often had trouble understanding his Australian accent. I’m go...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 20:49:17 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 20:27:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 23:00:45 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 23:20:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 12:03:37 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 15:51:37 -0700 2007
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