The Broken Shore - Hardcover

Temple, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786297948 ISBN 13: 9780786297948

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2007

Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING, CWA GOLD DAGGER-WINNING AND NED KELLY AWARD-RECEIVING CRIME POWERHOUSE: read The Broken Shore and become hooked on Peter Temple.

'A masterpiece' John Lanchester

'Read page one and I challenge you not to finish it' Independent on Sunday

Haunted by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled Melbourne and returned to his hometown, running its one-man police station while his wounds heal and his nightmares fade.

But when a local man is attacked and left for dead, Cashin's recovery is put on hold. And in a small town where everyone knows everyone, he finds himself standing alone fighting a battle against corruption and prejudice.

Loved The Broken Shore? Then move straight to its award-winning sequel, Truth: 'The Broken Shore was good; Truth is better' Independent

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Review

Temple is a master, and The Broken Shore is a masterful book. (John Harvey)

The Broken Shore is the best debut novel I've read this year. (Harlan Coben)

The Broken Shore is a great discovery; a gripping tale from a writer who assuredly takes the reader to places never been before. (Michael Connelly)

One of the most admired thrillers in recent memory. (John Lanchester)

Peter Temple is an addiction. Read one book and you want to read them all. Now. (Val McDermid)

Peter Temple is deservedly the leading light of Australian crime fiction. The Broken Shore is a wonderful novel . . . this is crime writing at its very best, and discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year. (Mark Billingham)

A towering achievement that brings alive a ferocious landscape and a motley assortment of clashing characters. Indispensible. (Guardian)

It's a stone classic . . . read page one and I challenge you not to finish it. (Independent on Sunday)

The first of Peter Temple's books to be published in the UK and at last we can see why he is acclaimed as one of Australia's leading crime writers . . . This is a very fine book. (Sunday Telegraph)

It's hard to know where to start praising this book. Plot, style, setting and characters are all startlingly good. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Temple's work is spare, deeply ironic; his wit, like the local beer, as cold as a dental anaesthetic. (Australian)

From the Publisher

The following review is from Maxim Jakubowski in The Guardian

A big city cop, mentally damaged by past encounters with evil, has voluntarily exiled himself to a small coastal town in Australia and soon gets dragged into a vortex of cases which confront him with local racism, greed and his own past. In other hands, a decent enough premise but penned by Peter Temple, one of Australia's leading writers (the book, albeit crime, was shortlisted for a major mainstream literary award), a towering achievement that brings alive a landscape as ferocious as any other and a motley assortment of characters whose clashes and prickly relationships come alive on the page to stunning effect. The sense of place is stifling in its intensity, and seldom has a waltz of the damned proven so venomous and hypnotic. Indispensable.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786297948
• ISBN 13: 9780786297948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 569