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Truth: a blazing thriller in the dry Australian heat (Paperback)
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Published: 01/07/2010
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THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE BROKEN SHORE, AND WINNER OF THE 2010 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD.

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*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM VAL MCDERMID*

'This year's best thriller' Sunday Times

'A thriller of dazzling richness' Guardian

'Temple's award-winning The Broken Shore was good; this is better' Independent

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At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.

Villani's job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work.

Now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, the girl's murder will collide with what seems on the surface to be another brutal gangland slaying and expose the darkness in the city's soul.

Loved Truth and The Broken Shore, and want more Peter Temple? Then check out the first of his Jack Irish thrillers, Bad Debts.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781847243836
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 290 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 27 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'A thriller of dazzling richness... leaves the reader ravaged, furious and marvelling at his technique... a stunning piece of psychological portraiture' Guardian. - Guardian

'One of the world's most distinguished literary crime novelists' Independent. - Independent

'Peter Temple's Truth may well prove to be the year's best thriller... It's the fierce energy of Temple's writing that is the book's outstanding feature - the dialogue and linking prose almost vie to outdo each other in brilliance' Sunday Times. - Sunday Times

'Doesn't disappoint for a single second' Daily Mail. - Daily Mail

'Temple's award-winning The Broken Shore was good; this is better' Independent. - Independent

'What makes Temple so compelling is his divine use of language. The novel is written with grace and subtlety, elegant but also violent, dark and yet suffused with sympathy for the protagonists, cast in dialogue that is both distinctive and surprising' Daily Mail. - Daily Mail

'With crackling prose and sparkling dialogue, Temple has fashioned a fashioned a fast-paced atmospheric police work of genuine class' Mail On Sunday. - Mail On Sunday

'Tautly constructed and compulsively paced... his dialogue is entirely distinctive, full of the mangled poetry and beautiful solecisms of ordinary speech' Observer. - Observer

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“Down under and dirty”

This is an absolutely terrific read. It is fast-paced, so much so that I had to go back occasionally to keep the characters straight, and keeps you on the edge of your seat. In my defence there are a lot of... More

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“Fitzroy forever!!”

This is a remarkably good book.... the characters, the locations, the plotting, the dialogue... all outstanding. Most of all, this is one of the most remarkably well-written crime novels you will ever read. In fact,... More

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