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An Iron Rose by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category
MacFaraday is a man with a past living a quiet life in the country - until his beloved friend New Lowey is found hanged. Is it suicide? Faraday won't accept that and starts to ask questions. As Faraday's search begins to uncover chilling secrets, he finds himself thrown back into the past, forced to con ...Show more
Bad Debts (TV TI) by Peter Temple
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker and one of the best crime characters ever created. When Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client he's too deep in misery over Fitzroy's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack kn ...Show more
Black Tide TV Tie-in by Peter Temple
$30.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Jack Irish
Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld, when he agrees to look for the son of an old workmate of his father's. It's an offer he soon has cause to regret, as the trail of Gary Connors leads him into the worl ...Show more
Dead Point (Jack Irish #3) by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser. | Reading Level: good
Winner, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel, 2000 It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down. It ...Show more
In The Evil Day by Peter Temple
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
John Anselm is a former Beirut hostage, a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he lives in Hamburg, working for a semi-legal, near-broke surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past.Then into his life comes Con Neimand, ex-mercenary and professional survivor. ...Show more
In the Evil Day by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
The Cold War is long dead but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm whose business is just this side of legal. At night he drinks too much, paranoid ...Show more
Iron Rose - Text Classics by Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Introduced by Les CarlyonI looked up. The rope was tied to a rolled steel joist about two metres above the truck cab. Ned had climbed up on to the cab roof, tied the rope to the joist, slid it along. Tied a slipknot around his neck. And stepped off the cab roof.Peter Temple is one of the world's great c ...Show more
Shooting Star by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, subject to strict instructions. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is greed the motivation? Reven ...Show more
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs. But, his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent membe ...Show more
The Broken Shore (#1) by Peter Temple
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Broken Shore Ser.
For Cashin, they include a posting away from the world of murderers, of Homicide, to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Here all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. And sometimes think about how he was before Sarris. Then rich Charles Bourgoyne, the local benefactor, is b ...Show more
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ...Show more
Truth by Peter Temple
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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, winner of the Gold Dagger for ...Show more