Peter Temple’s gift for compelling plots and evocative, compassionately drawn characters has earnt him a reputation as the grandmaster of Australian crime writing. And as tragedy unfolds relentlessly into tragedy, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better to let go. Everything seems to point to three boys from the nearby Aboriginal community everyone seems to want it to. Then prominent local Charles Bourgoyne is bashed and left for dead. And sometimes think about how he was before. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and walk the dogs. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. But there are consequences when you’ve come so close to dying. He moved easily then was surer and less thoughtful. Dust jacket has slight creasing at top and tail.
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