Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Broken Shore by Peter Temple


"Every word in The Broken Shore contains meaning..." - Courier-Mail.

Gist of this book:  A wounded cop recovering from life-threatening injuries in Australia's coastal countryside gets drawn in to the investigation of a murder.

About the author:  South-African born Peter Temple's bestselling novels are published in more than twenty countries.  He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five time, and in 2010, Truth (2008) won the Miles Franklin  Literary Award.

Truth is the companion to The Broken Shore (2006), winner of the world's most prestigious prize for crime writing, the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger.  Peter Temple lives in Victoria.

His other novels are

Bad Debts (1996)
An Iron Rose (1998)
Shooting Star (1999)
Black Tide (1999)
Dead Point (2000)
In the Evil Day (2002) aka Identity Theory
White Dog (2003)
Truth (2008)
Ithaca In My Mind (2012) - novella (Kindle)

Rating:  5/5

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