The Broken Shore

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and 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 in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It's a peaceful existence - ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin's not so sure and as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption and prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his, The Broken Shore delivers powerful, lean writing, pumping more muscle and feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.

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'A towering achievement' Guardian. 'A stone classic...read page one and I challenge you not to finish it' Independent on Sunday. 'The Broken Shore is a masterpiece, as good as any new novel I've read in the last ten years' John Lanchester. 'A very fine book. Characterisation, dialogue and the quality of prose are all top class' Sunday Telegraph. 'He is writing the kind of books I've been trying to write and writing them better than I do' John Harvey, The Guardian.

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Peter Temple is one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, and the only author to have won the Ned Kelly Prize five times. Truth, his ninth and most recent novel, won the 2010 Miles Franklin Award. He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.

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