Peter Temple

Broschiertes Buch

The Broken Shore

scintillating crime in the dry heat of Australia

Beschreibung

The Sunday Times bestseller, from Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus / Riverrun
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 753157
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780857383495
• ISBN-10: 0857383493
• Artikelnr.: 32267553

Rezensionen

Temple is a master, and The Broken Shore is a masterful book. John Harvey