Peter Temple

Shooting Star

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A race for life as a girl's kidnapping reveals her family's tainted past and a disreputable ex-police negotiator becomes her only hope for survival.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780857383518
• ISBN-10: 0857383515
• Artikelnr.: 33165801

Autorenporträt

Peter Temple was born in South Africa in 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 1980. He published nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels were published in over twenty countries. The Broken Shore won the UK's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and Truth won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer had won an award of this calibre anywhere in the world. The Jack Irish series was adapted for TV with Guy Pearce in the lead role. Peter Temple died on 8 March 2018.

Rezensionen

'Plenty of surprises ... Shooting Star hits all the right buttons' Evening Standard. Evening Standard