The Broken Shore
Winner, Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger, United Kingdom, 2007 Winner, Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year, 2006, Winner, Ned Kelly Award, 2006, Winner, Colin Roderick Award and H. T. Priestley Medal, 2006 Shortlisted, Swedish Crime Writers Academy Martin Beck Award, Sweden Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when youve come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before.Then prominent local Charles Bourgoyne is bashed and left for dead. Everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; everyone seems to want it to. But Cashin is unconvinced. And as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go.Peter Temples gift for compelling plots and evocative, compassionately drawn characters has earnt him a reputation as the grand master of Australian crime writing. The Broken Shore is Temples finest book yet; a novel about a place, about family, about politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten. It is a work as moving as it is gripping, and one that defies the boundaries of genre.
