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An Iron Rose by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime
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 (Jack Irish #1) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime
Danny McKillop's dead and no one cares much except his wife. And Jack Irish, because now that's twice that he's let McKillop down. But when he starts digging for information, he turns over some rocks that certain people want very badly to stay unturned.
Bad Debts (Jack Irish #1) by Peter Temple
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser.
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 (Jack Irish #2) by Peter Temple
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser.
Jack Irish has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall. So when Des Connors, the last link to his fath ...Show more
Dead Point (Jack Irish #3) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser.
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
Dead Point (Jack Irish #3) by Peter Temple
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Jack Irish Novels Ser.
Jack Irish--lawyer, gambler and people-finder--is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colburne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose. The case should be closed, but the dashing young ba ...Show more
In the Evil Day by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime
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)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | 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
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime
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
Shooting Star: Text Classics by Peter Temple; Adrian McKinty (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Pat Carson?s old eyes were on me, looking for something.'Man is born unto trouble,? he said.I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.?Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven?t been a bloody priest too, have you??Anne Carson- fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.The r ...Show more
The Broken Shore (#1) by Peter Temple
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime | 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
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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