Peter Temple (Author of The Broken Shore)

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Peter Temple

Born

in South Africa

January 01, 1946

Died

March 08, 2018

Genre

Crime Fiction

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Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.

Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels (Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point, and White Dog) are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist. He has also written three stand-alone novels: An Iron Rose, Shooting Star, In the Evil Day (Identity Theory in the US), as well as The Broken Shore and its sequel, Truth. He has won five Ned Kelly Awards for crime fiction, the most recent in 2006 for The Broken Shore, which also won the Colin Roderick Award for best Aust ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 22,728 ratings · 2,176 reviews · 31 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	The Broken Shore (Broken Shore #1) 3.86 avg rating — 7,116 ratings — published 2005 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth (Broken Shore, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 3,716 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Debts (Jack Irish, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 3,136 ratings — published 1996 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Tide (Jack Irish, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 1,980 ratings — published 1999 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Dog (Jack Irish, #4) 4.13 avg rating — 1,333 ratings — published 2004 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Point (Jack Irish, #3) 4.08 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 2000 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Iron Rose 4.02 avg rating — 1,182 ratings — published 1998 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shooting Star 3.88 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 1999 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Evil Day 3.72 avg rating — 948 ratings — published 2002 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple, Michael Heyward (Introduction) 4.27 avg rating — 138 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Broken Shore (2 books)
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“Man near entrance is shot in the head at close range from behind. The other two, multiple stab wounds, genitals severed, other injuries. Also head and pubic hair ignited, shot, muzzle in mouth. Three bullets recovered, 45 calibre."
Villani: 鈥淪o you can鈥檛 rule out an accident?”
― Peter Temple, Truth

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“In the mid-1980s, on a spring Sunday morning, a Volvo stationwagon parked in Brunswick Street. A young couple got out. She was trim, blonded, tanned. He was already broadening in the midsection, sockless, short and hairy legs ending in boatshoes. From a restraining chair in the back seat, he unloaded a child, complaining, flailing. They took it into a cafe.

They were going to have brunch.

The old Brunswick Street was dead, Brunchwick Street born. There was no turning back.”
― Peter Temple, White Dog

tags: brunchwick, brunswick, melbourne, those-were-the-days

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“I looked at the huge charlatan with respect. Nicotine, dope, hash, barbiturates, speed, acid, smack, Colombian marching powder, ecstasy, alcohol in every form, all had entered the massive frame by some route and in quantities guaranteed to lay waste to the collected brains of three Melbourne universities or eight in Queensland. In theory, a scan of this man鈥檚 skull should reveal a place as grey and still as Kerguelen Island in winter. Yet from time to time there were clear signs of electrical activity.”
― Peter Temple, Black Tide

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Voting for May 2019 Group Read - by an Aussie author

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

14 votes, 40.0%

Scrublands by Chris Hammer

5 votes, 14.3%

The Hidden Hours by Sara Foster

4 votes, 11.4%

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

2 votes, 5.7%

The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin

2 votes, 5.7%

The Holiday Murders by Robert Gott

2 votes, 5.7%

Frantic by Katherine Howell

1 vote, 2.9%

Bad Debts by Peter Temple

1 vote, 2.9%

The Greater Good by Tim Ayliffe

1 vote, 2.9%

The Rip by Mark Brandi

1 vote, 2.9%

The Scoop by Terence J. Quinn

1 vote, 2.9%

Headland by Ged Gillmore

1 vote, 2.9%

Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta

0 votes, 0.0%

Sinister Intent by Karen M. Davis

0 votes, 0.0%

Harry's World by A.B. Patterson

0 votes, 0.0%

35 total votes

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