The broken shore
By: Peter Temple
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847240446
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Aboriginal Australians; Fiction; Race relations
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.
Notes: Originally published: Australia: Text, 2005; 2006.