The Broken Shore is a Duncan Lawrie Dagger award winning novel by Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n author Peter Temple

Peter Temple

Peter Temple is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist and journalism lecturer, Temple turned to fiction writing in the 1990s. His Jack Irish novels are set in Melbourne, Australia, and feature an unusual lawyer-gambler protagonist...

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Plot Summary

The novel's central character is Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective. Following serious physical injuries he is posted to his hometown where he begins the process of rebuilding the old family mansion and his physical and mental strength. Against a background of family tragedy, politics, police corruption and racism, he investigates the death of a wealthy local man, Charles Burgoyne. His closest friend and police superior is Villani, who is the central character in Truth

Truth (novel)

Truth is an award-winning 2009 crime fiction novel written by Peter Temple. The novel is a sequel to Temple's 2005 novel The Broken Shore, and won the Miles Franklin Award in 2010....

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Awards

• Crime Writers' Association
  Crime Writers' Association
  The Crime Writers Association is a writers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Peter James and claims 450+ members....
  
   (UK), The Duncan Lawrie Dagger, 2007: winner
• Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2006: longlisted
• Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian General Fiction Book of the Year, 2006: winner
• Ned Kelly Awards
  Ned Kelly Awards
  The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres...
  
   for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2006: joint winner
• Colin Roderick Award
  Colin Roderick Award
  The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and currently has a prize of A$10,000....
  
  , 2005: winner

Interviews

• "Time Out New York"http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/books/4801/down-underbelly

Reviews

• "The Age" http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/the-broken-shore/2005/08/12/1123353484543.html
• "Daily Telegraph" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IM4BIJCOJOWEPQFIQMFSFFWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/arts/2006/07/16/bocrime.xml&sSheet=/arts/2006/07/16/bomain.html
• "Detectives Beyond Borders" Part 1 http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2007/03/broken-shore.html, Part 2http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2007/03/broken-shore-part-ii.html
• Island Volume 104 http://www.islandmag.com/104/reviews.html accessed 2007-08-13
• "Light Reading" http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-would-give-ten-years-of-my-life.html
• "Mostly Fiction" http://www.mostlyfiction.com/mystery/temple.htm
• "Reading Matters" http://kimbofo.typepad.com/readingmatters/2007/08/the-broken-shor.html
• "The Times" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article683895.ece