The broken shore / A Novel / Peter Temple.
Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; whom everyone wants to blame. But Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a simple robbery gone wrong.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374116934
- ISBN: 0374116938
- Physical Description: 357 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st American edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Originally published in 2005 by the Text Publishing Company, Australia"--T.p. verso.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Originally published: Melbourne, Vic. : Text Pub., 2005
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- Murder > Australia > Fiction.
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- Detective and mystery fiction.
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Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; whom everyone wants to blame. But Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a simple robbery gone wrong.--From publisher description.
