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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I can't get enough of Peter Temple: everytime I read one of his novels I'm enthralled and impressed. The curse of degree in literature is a tendency to become dispassionate and academic, to anaylyse prose style and study metaphors, even when reading the most engaging book. Temple's work turns me into a reader again - his is the art of the flawlessly constructed page-turner. ( )Temple is one of my favourite crime writers and Broken Shore does not disappoint. Broken Shore features Cashin a broken and beaten who steadfastly pursues what he believes to be right. If you like crime fiction - and I do - you will surely like this one. The first Peter Temple book I have read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Appealing to the Australian sense of humor I found his gift in understatements wonderful. The pace of the book is not quite right at the end, it starts very slowly and continues at a good pace, till he realises that he must solve the crime and tie up all the loose ends in about three pages! Set in rural coastal Victoria, Australia, the description of the setting is brillaint, his main character Cashin, is a grumpy aging-man type character, very irritated by most things but totally endearing to the reader. AS well as being a good yarn, it touches social issues of race, politics, religion, depression and police corruption. No-one is perfect in this story, not all the bad guys get caught. Not fatalistic, more an attempt to tbe realistic. He gives hope and enjoyment in the friendships and characters that are developed in the stroy and the sense that no matter how bad things may seem, tomorrow is another day. I am looking for more Peter Temple books. Very involving mystery where the setting serves as an important part of the story. I enjoyed The Broken Shore, set in Australia, and featuring a troubled cop and a good mystery. Deciphering the Aussie slang is part of the fun of this book. A rich and respected old man is beaten and left for dead, and suspicion points to 3 punks from the aboriginal community nearby. However, for cop Joe Cashin, the circumstances don't ring true, and he continues to investigate even when told to back off and suspended for not doing so. Very atmospheric and haunting. 0.043 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0374116938, Hardcover)Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won’t be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation’s finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he’s posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community—everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong. Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing as well as Australia’s major prize for crime fiction, the Ned Kelly Award, The Broken Shore is a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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