Truth
By Peter Temple

Truth

By (author) Peter Temple

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At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore. Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.

ISBN: 9781921520716
Classification: Crime & mystery
Format: Paperback (230mm x 152mm x mm)
Pages: 352
Publish Date: 28-Sep-2009
Country of Publication: Australia

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0 star rating by Boomert - Truth by Peter Temple 07 Jan 2010
It’s fair to say this is a highly anticipated book but probably a little misleading to call it a highly anticipated sequel. In his follow-up to the Dagger-winning The Broken Shore, Temple has taken Stephen Villani, the detective friend of that book’s hero Joe Cashin, for his central character. Cashin is referred to in passing but this is very much a stand-alone story. The good news is that it can therefore be recommended to those who haven’t yet read Temple’s previous book, as well as those who enjoyed it. Truth presents the same winning combination of riveting crime plot, flawed-yetsympathetic lead character, pared-back but effective language and complex themes. Villani is investigating the murder of an unidentified woman found dead in a new luxury high-rise city apartment, as well as the torture and murder of three men in an Oakleigh shed; at the same time his family is fraying, his father is refusing to budge from a country property at risk of bushfire and he is grappling with the messy politics of a successful career in the force. Running through this are memories of the childhood that made Villani what he is and a case from the past that he’d rather forget. I could barely put this book down. Temple fans won’t be disappointed and, like The Broken Shore, this will have broad appeal--even among those who don’t usually go for crime.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Author Biography: Peter Temple
Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels and has also written four standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999), In the Evil Day (2002) and The Broken Shore (2006), winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Fiction in 2007. He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.

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