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White Dog
Author(s): Peter Temple (Author)
- Publisher: Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date: 5 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847245404
- ISBN-13: 9781847245403
Book Description
Sarah Longmore’s apartment was in Kensington, on the rough edge, near the Dynon railyards in a cracked and potholed dead-end street with unpaved verges, weeds battling to survive. Just before a six-metre corrugated iron wall, I turned into a small cinder yard. A yellow Ford ute, better days seen, had its blistered nose to a building – partly brick, partly cinder-block, partly rusted tin. I parked the Lark next to the ute, switched off the wipers, sat listening to the engine note. 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. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey Franklin’s death, and between the case and his own dealings with dodgy racehorses, falls headlong into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year.’ Mark Billingham ‘To read Peter Temple is to be granted access to the inner circle of greatness.’ HeadButler.com ‘Peter Temple’s Jack Irish thriller is like slipping into deliciously dangerous quicksand–edgy and thrilling… a clever, fast-moving and multi-faceted yarn that demands to be read in one sitting.’ Herald Sun
About the Author
Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia’s most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of three other Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts (1996), Black Tide (1999) and Dead Point (2000). He has also written four standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999) In the Evil Day (2002) and The Broken Shore (2005). He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.
