The Broken Shore A Novel
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple is a novel published by Picador on May 27, 2008, featuring 368 pages in English. This narrative follows Joe Cashin, a big-city detective who, after a life-threatening incident, returns to his coastal hometown in South Australia. As he adjusts to life as a country cop, he grapples with personal scars and guilt while navigating the complexities of his past. The tranquility of his new surroundings is shattered when a local figure is brutally attacked, leading Cashin into a murder investigation that challenges his beliefs and perceptions.
Readers will find a story that delves into themes of family, politics, and morality within a community marked by tension and prejudice. As Cashin investigates the crime, he confronts the implications of blame directed at three boys from a nearby aboriginal community, revealing deeper societal issues. The Broken Shore presents a blend of mystery and crime elements, showcasing Temple’s skill in crafting a narrative that intertwines personal and communal struggles. This first edition invites readers to explore the darker undercurrents of a seemingly quiet town.
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Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing, the Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime fiction, and the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award.
Peter Temple’s 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.
The Broken Shore, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he’s 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 community—everyone 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.
Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won’t be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation’s finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification.
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