The broken shore
By: Peter Temple
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780374116934
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Race discrimination; Aboriginal Australians
Description: Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community; whom everyone wants to blame. But Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a simple robbery gone wrong.--From publisher description.
Notes: "Originally published in 2005 by the Text Publishing Company, Australia"--T.p. verso.