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Shooting Star by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: good
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Reven ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
Shooting Star - out of print by Peter Temple
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Pat Carson's old eyes were on me, looking for something. 'Man is born unto trouble,' he said. I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.' Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven't been a bloody priest too, have you?' 'My mother,' I said. 'She had a lot of time for ...Show more
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs. But, his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent membe ...Show more
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: good
The critical and commercial hit of 2005, Peter Temple's The Broken Shore, is now available in a gorgeous new mass market edition. 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 dy ...Show more
The Broken Shore (#1) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Broken Shore Ser.
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 b ...Show more
The Jack Irish Double: Dead Point / White Dog by Peter Temple
$29.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Jack Irish Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Jack Irish is no ordinary investigator. He was a Melbourne criminal lawyer, but quit when a deranged client murdered his wife. After a long alcoholic binge of despair, he recovered sufficiently to set up a non-criminal practice in the suburb of Fitzroy. Jack has a big build, and women find him attractiv ...Show more
The Jack Irish Quinella : Bad Debts and Back Tide by Peter Temple
$26.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
The classic first two Jack Irish novels together in the one volume. BAD DEBTS: Danny McKillop's dead and no one cares much except his wife. And Jack Irish, because now that's twice he's let McKillop down. But when he starts digging for information, he turns over some rocks that certain people want very ...Show more
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more
Truth: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010 by Peter Temple
$32.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers