Peter Temple

• Oct-2019
• 

'One of the world's finest crime writers.' The Times

'He was to terse blokes with hard jobs and wounded souls what Proust was to memory. He made every sentence count and shot the stragglers.' Shane Maloney

Peter Temple didn't start ...

• Dec-2015
• 

John Anselm's a former Beirut hostage; a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he's working for a semi-legal Hamburg surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then into his life comes Con Niemand, ex-...

• Feb-2014
• 

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 pri...

• Jan-2014
• 

Guy Pearce returns to the screen in early 2014 as Jack Irish in a new feature based on Dead Point. 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 i...

• Jun-2013
• 

The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award. Introduction by Les Carlyon. When Mac Faraday's best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced, and he's a man who knows not to accept things...

• May-2012
• 

On a lazy summer morning, ageing author Vincent Duncan takes an unsettling phone call from his literary agent. Peter Temple indulges his humorous side in this scathingly brilliant portrayal of a writer past his peak....

• Aug-2008
• 

This is the fourth Jack Irish thriller, and the third one in the series to win a Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction. 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 ...

• Apr-2008
• 

From an award-winning crime novelist, "a brutal tale of corruption, greed, and revenge . . . and one man's determination to uncover the truth" (Publishers Weekly). Inspector Stephen Villani, head of homicide in Melbourne, Australia,...

• Jan-2008
• 

• Nov-2005
• 

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 Fitzro...

• Nov-2005
• 

Black Tide is the second of Peter Temple's Jack Irish thrillers and was first published in 1999. Jack Irish -- lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people -- is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agree...

• Aug-2005
• 

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 l...

• Oct-2004
• 

John Anselm is a former Beirut hostage, a foreign correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out-case, he lives in his family's ancestral house in Germany, working for a semi-legal and near-broke surveillance firm and wrestling with his own ...