The novel is written with grace and subtlety, elegant but also violent, dark and yet suffused with sympathy for the protagonists, cast in dialogue that is both distinctive and surprising' Daily Mail. 'What makes Temple so compelling is his divine. 'With crackling prose and sparkling dialogue, Temple has fashioned a fashioned a fast-paced atmospheric police work of genuine class' Mail On Sunday. his dialogue is entirely distinctive, full of the mangled poetry and beautiful solecisms of ordinary speech' Observer.

'Tautly constructed and compulsively paced. Loved Truth and The Broken Shore, and want more Peter Temple? Then check out the first of his Jack Irish thrillers, Bad Debts. Now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, the girl's murder will collide with what seems on the surface to be another brutal gangland slaying and expose the darkness in the city's soul. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work. Villani's job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead.

'This year's best thriller' Sunday Times 'A thriller of dazzling richness' Guardian 'Temple's award-winning The Broken Shore was good this is better' Independent At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE BROKEN SHORE, AND WINNER OF THE 2010 MILES FRANKLIN AWARD. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city.

Truth by Peter Temple