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The Broken Shore
Published 11 August 2010
ISBN 9781921656774
Format Paperback
Extent 352pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00

The Broken Shore

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11 Aug 2010
EBook
1 Aug 2005
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Before Rai Sarris, Cashin was different. He moved more quickly then, he was less thoughtful, less easily spooked. But there are consequences when you've come that close to dying.

For Cashin, they include a posting away from the world of murderers, of Homicide, to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Here all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before Sarris.

Then rich Charles Bourgoyne, the local benefactor, is bashed and everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community. Cashin is unconvinced and as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go.
Published 11 August 2010
ISBN 9781921656774
Format Paperback
Extent 352pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $30.00

About the author

Peter Temple

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.
portrait photo of Peter Temple

Also by Peter Temple

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Dead Point
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Black Tide
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White Dog
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Praise for The Broken Shore

Peter Temple has been described as one of Australia's best crime novelists, but he's far better than that. He's one of our best novelists full stop, and here he creates an evocative picture of life in rural Australia

Sun Herald

With this moving portrait of a detective at a turning point in his life, one of our most accomplished crime writers gives us not only a gripping whodunnit but grapples with issues ranging from race relations, friendship, loyalty, politics, the past and the future to the bond between a man and his dog

The Age

. . . the greatest joy is Temple's use of language. Every word in The Broken Shore contains meaning. It's all killer, no filler. Especially the dialogue. It's deliciously brutal and spare, full of unambiguous violence, prejudice and hatred one moment, and cavernous instances of insight and revelation the next

The Courier Mail

. . . it might well be the best crime novel published in this country

Weekend Australian

The Broken Shore might just be a great Australian novel, irrespective of genre. Read it for what Temple does with words

The Sunday Age

The Broken Shore is one of those watershed books that makes you rethink your ideas about reading

Sydney Morning Herald

In The Broken Shore, Peter Temple renders the demotic of provincial Australia with diamond-hard lyricism. This is less a crime thriller (although it is that in spades) than the dismantling of that romantic furphy beloved of sea changers: the rural idyll

Australian Financial Review