Peter Temple

Ithaca in My Mind: Allen & Unwin shorts

by Peter Temple

A new short story by Peter Temple, award-winning crime fiction writer.

The Broken Shore

by Peter Temple

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,...

Truth

by Peter Temple

Inspector Stephen Villani, head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia, has a full agenda: a murdered woman in a penthouse apartment, three men butchered in a sadistic rampage, a tattoofaced drug dealer corrupting...

An Iron Rose: Text Classics

by Peter Temple & Les Carlyon

Peter Temple is one of the world's great crime writers. In this enthralling novel, he tells the story of a man who has left a dangerous job to make a new life in the country. But the death of his father's best...

Wake In Fright: Text Classics

by Peter Temple, Kenneth Cook & David Stratton

Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt...

Shooting Star

by Peter Temple

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. Anne Carson is fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson...

White Dog: Jack Irish book 4

Jack Irish #4

by Peter Temple

This is the fourth Jack Irish thriller. Jack Irish--gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found--has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah...

Dead Point: Jack Irish book 3

Jack Irish #3

by Peter Temple

It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. His mind is not fully on the job at hand: find Robbie Colburne. But when Jack gets...

Bad Debts

Jack Irish #1

by Peter Temple

A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his...

Black Tide

Jack Irish #2

by Peter Temple

ack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack's father. It's an offer he soon regrets, as he...

Identity Theory

by Peter Temple

John Anselm is a struggling intelligence dealer whose business is information, Con Niemand is a tough ex-mercenary whose business is surviving, and Caroline Wishart is an exposé journalist whose business until...