Peter Temple Libri

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 Longmore from going down for murder.

"Her name was Sarah Longmore and she was charged with murdering her former lover." When Jack Irish is asked to look into Sarah Longmore's defence, he's more than happy to oblige. After all, whenever somebody seems as guilty as Sarah does, it's usually for a good reason. But her case will prove far from straightforward, and Jack's investigation far from swift and painless.

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When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.'A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend Ned Lowey is found hanged, Mac - who has learned the hard way never to accept things at face value - isn't convinced he committed suicide and starts asking questions.Why did Ned keep press cuttings about the skeleton of a girl found in an old mine shaft? What was he doing at Kinross Hall, the local detention centre for juvenile girls? Who was the beaten girl found naked beside a lonely road?As Mac's search for answers pushes deeper into the past, it resurrects the terrifying spectre of what he calls his 'old life', forcing him to turn to long-discarded skills not only to discover why his best friend died, but also to save his own life.

City detective Joe Cashin, reposted to a quiet Australian town, is thrust into a murder investigation in which the evidence points to three aboriginal boys. Cashin, unconvinced, suspects something far worse than a burglary gone wrong.

Stephen Villani is the acting head of the Victoria Police homicide squad. His first months on the job have not gone well: two Aboriginal teenagers shot dead, and no progress on the killing of a man in front of his daughter. Now 5 men are found dead in horrifying circumstances. Winner Miles Franklin Award 2010.

The second Jack Irish thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Broken Shore

THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL, AND FIRST JACK IRISH THRILLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BROKEN SHORE AND TRUTH.

A mercenary, an intelligence agent and a journalist become embroiled in a secret so terrible it has the power to destroy lives and bring down governments.

Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.