![]() ![]() ![]() With these books he has pulled off no mean feat: literary masterpieces that also happen to be page-turners. His feel for dialogue and rhythm is superb, his control and timing masterful. The joy is in Temple’s writing – so tight and pared back that it almost seems to be in code. Temple follows some crime-writing conventions – yes there are crimes to be solved, yes the plot thickens, yes there are flawed cops with problems of their own – but he folds in so many layers with so much style that genre becomes irrelevant. Part of the evidence is a man with a guitar and a very special song. The Broken Shore (winner of multiple international crime writing awards) and Truth (winner of the Miles Franklin) are set in Victoria. ![]() When you finish the first you can immediately dive into the next. Why have one beach read when you can have two? Start with Peter Temple’s brilliant crime novel The Broken Shore, safe in the knowledge that you’ve got its equally wonderful companion novel, Truth, lurking in your beach bag. The Broken Shore followed by Truth by Peter Temple ![]()
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