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Shooting Star by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Reading Level: good
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Reven ...Show more
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
The Broken Shore (#1) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Broken Shore Ser.
For Cashin, they include a posting away from the world of murderers, of Homicide, to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Here all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before Sarris. Then rich Charles Bourgoyne, the local benefactor, is b ...Show more
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
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, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more
White Dog (Jack Irish #4) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Jack Irish Thriller | Reading Level: good
Winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Mickey Frances was funny and clever, but there was always something dangerous about him. Now he's been shot five times and his old girlfriend charged with murder. Jack Irish, lawyer, gambler and cabinetmaker, has to try to save her.