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The Broken Shore
by Peter Temple
This is a noir detective novel, so if you don't like that genre, this review and book is not for you. The plot of Peter Temple's police procedural is not new--a divorced cop recuperating from wounds from a previous case is ordered to take a vacation in one of Australia's coastal towns. When a local wealthy man is murdered he's asked to look into it. For a change this character is not a drunk or violent; he's rather a nice person and it's a pleasant change and of course when things don't add up he won't let go despite orders from higher up. What makes Temple's book worth reading however is the writing--it is so good I stopped to reread certain paragraphs and there are many that deserve rereading. This book won awards in Australia and rightly so. I highly recommend this and Peter Temple's other detective novels. I have read quite a few and have never been disappointed. He should be better known and appreciated in the US.