by Peter Temple
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Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town in on the Australian coast. But soon the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets. The Broken Shore is a brilliantly intricate crime procedural, and a moving novel about a place, a family, politics, and power.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 You can't go wrong with Peter Temple, 2008-09-22
So far I've read The Broken Shore GOOD. Identity Theory GREAT. Bad Debts GOOD. Black Tide GOOD. And enjoyed every one of them. White Dog is next.
You can't go wrong with Peter Temple.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Gay Australia, 2008-07-08
What I liked about his novel was the first 3/4 of it with all of its hinted descriptions of character and place and story. The inscrutable Australian lingo added to this layered quality. We never do find out who, when and where he was crippled on the job and became a changed man and was no longer the yokel he used to be such as the people who live in his small town. He listens to Maria Callas now and has 2 standard poodles. Mr. Guy Noir. The Broken Shore refers to a big stone staircase that goes down to the boiling roiling ocean. Its old and broken of course. See, that means he's become separated from passion. What I didn't like much were all the homosexual references throughout the book. Was our hero gay? or does Temple always write this way because he is gay or is he anti-gay? The gays come off poorly in this book. Our hero's sad sack brother. The denouement certainly is a lets-hate-gays one. He describes women in a bloodless way and the happy ending includes a man as well as a woman. I'm tempted to read more to see what's up with Temple. I liked how he developed the story. It was interesting to see race predjudice similar to places in the USA and corrupt police similar as well. But the Australian attitude towards gays is ambiguous.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Australian Crime Novel --Excellent!, 2008-06-21
First do not be fooled this is book by an Australian written in Australian. His use of the cadence of the Australian language, the slang (or strine) is deeply embedded in this book. As Ken Bruen would do Ireland Temple does Australia very true to form. Having lived there I could not have enjoyed the dialogue more. The banter is pure Australian. The murder mystery is really secondary to the book and really starts to roll towards the second half. Its very much about the place on the shore of Australia. You should not believe this is "Australia" in total. To me its meant more as a dramatization of a small segment. Similar to a portrayal of a small American town near an Indian reservation. People are tough and gritty. I would of given the book five stars accept the author spun too many characters to quickly and I ended up with a crib sheet to keep track of who's who. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy Ken Bruen and Mankrell Henning...very enjoyable book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
(4.5 stars) "Being alive's a present. Every minute of every hour of every day.", 2008-06-21
Temple is an instinctively powerful writer, the abrupt violence of a murder the setting for a plot riddled with the ill-intentions of secrecy and the domination of the helpless, police brutality, racism, class-consciousness and the poetic beauty of the wild Australian continent. Detective Joe Cashin has left the city after near-fatal injuries, his battered body slowly healing in the more quiet environment of south Australia's Port Monro, Cashin's home ground. When he gets a call from a superior in Cromarty- an elderly philanthropist has been tortured and brutally murdered- Cashin is reluctant to be drawn into the politics of city police work. But Charles Bourgoyne has been killed in his territory and Cashin has no choice but to cooperate. The few clues are enigmatic, something strange about the murder scene, but the authorities in Cromarty are quick to suspect three poor aborigine youths with records and in possession of Bourgoyne's stolen watch.
A wild chase ensues and two of the three boys are killed in a shootout before Cashin and his temporary partner, Dove, arrive at the scene. The third boy doesn't last much longer, released on bail after a public outcry of police brutality and the oppression of the aborigine community. With little hard evidence and no witnesses, the city cops indicate they want the case to go away, the dust to settle. But that isn't Cashin's way; he continues the investigation, uncovering a bizarre cult that casts a pall over years of good works done in the name of an organization that ministers to poor and unfortunate boys. Living in the remnants of a home he is slowly rebuilding with the help of an itinerant handyman, Joe is determined to maintain his independence, constantly on guard against the manipulation of other officers with more sinister motives, men dabbling in the corruption that dogs law enforcement.
Contrasting the beauty of this harsh land with the petty cruelties of ambition and graft, Cashin is a noble character, reliable in his honesty and determination, attending to the grievances of his personal life and family issues, yet tormented by pain and nightmares of his recent ordeal. Racism is a powerful factor in this society, the scape-goating of those with few resources by fearful, angry men looking for an excuse for action. Yet, in spite of the human depravity at the heart of this novel, Temple's prose is inspired, creating a vivid sense of race, class and politics, deftly blending the sacred and the profane, Cashin riding the wave of violence to its inevitable, brutal conclusion, remembering finally that "being alive's a present". Luan Gaines/ 2008.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
The Best Crime Novel I've Read in Years, 2008-06-08
I came across THE BROKEN SHORE last summer purely by chance and was knocked out by this stirring, beautifully-written novel. The characters and setting are rich, and Temple's intricate plot is gripping until the end.
Temple has single-handedly reignited my interest in the crime genre.
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