Peter Temple
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Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries.

The Broken Shore won the UK’s prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and Truth won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer had been awarded a prize of this calibre anywhere in the world. Temple’s Jack Irish series has been made into films with Guy Pearce starring as Jack Irish.

Temple died in 2018.

Books by Peter Temple
The Broken Shore
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The Red Hand
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Shooting Star: Text Classics
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Dead Point
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Bad Debts
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Black Tide
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An Iron Rose: Text Classics
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White Dog
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Truth
Peter Temple
In the Evil Day
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