Peter Temple, Author . MacAdam/Cage $13 (318p) ISBN 978-1-59692-129-0
Australian Jack Irish—ex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barfly—gets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide
) this month. Jack's a gumshoe in classic...
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Peter Temple, Author, Peter Hosking, Read by , read by Peter Hosking. Blackstone Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1433201905
What do you do if you want to turn the latest book by a writer who's won five Ned Kelly Awards (Australia's equivalent to the Edgar Awards) into an equally impressive audio version? Blackstone had the perfect solution: get a reader like Hosking, who
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Peter Temple, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (357p) ISBN 978-0-374-11693-4
In Temple's beautifully written eighth crime novel, Joe Cashin, a city homicide cop recovering from an injury, returns to the quiet coastal area of South Australia where he grew up. There he investigates the beating death of elderly millionaire...
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Peter Temple, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-27937-0
The death of a nameless prostitute in a glitzy Melbourne high-rise is the first in a series of crimes that Insp. Stephen Villani discovers are all tied to protecting the interests of the city's elite in this brutal tale of corruption, greed,...
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Peter Temple. Text (www.textpublishing.com), $14.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-921351-38-9
Australian ex-cop Frank Calder, now a self-described mediator, has his hands full in this hard-hitting standalone from Ned Kelly Award–winner Temple (Truth). At the invitation of Pat Carson, "patriarch of the Carson dynasty," Calder visits the...
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Peter Temple. Text, $16.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-922268-27-3
Ned Kelly Award winner Temple (1946–2018), who was born in South Africa, considered himself an “Australian by rebirth,” as Michael Heyward notes in the introduction to this welcome collection of miscellany. The six short stories, 16 essays and...
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