{"product_id":"the-broken-shore-a-novel","title":"The Broken Shore: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia  but it wont be long before he is recognized as what he really isone of the nations finest writers  period. Born in South Africa  Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. The Broken Shore  his eighth novel  revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death  hes posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt  he spends his time playing the country cop  walking his dogs  and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead  Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal communityeveryone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced  and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong.  Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing as well as Australias major prize for crime fiction  the Ned Kelly Award  The Broken Shore is a transfixing and moving novel about a place  a family  politics and power  and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986747256885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374116938","price":51.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374116934.jpg?v=1770915851","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-broken-shore-a-novel","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}