An Iron Rose b Format by Peter Temple
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.
Australian crime writing is hitting new heights, thanks in no small part to Peter TemplePace and plot, along with a stylishly cool approach to prose push him above the rest - Daily Mirror Daily Mirror Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment - Evening Standard [The Broken Shore] Evening Standard An Iron Rose shows just how good he is .. The laconic dialogue is terrific and the characters are brilliantly realised - Sunday Telegraph Sunday Telegraph This was my first encounter with the multi-prize-winning Australian writer Peter Temple, and the experience has left me hot on the trail of his earlier books - Guardian [In the Evil Day] The Guardian
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 four Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts (1996), Black Tide (1999), Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2003). He has also written three other standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999) and In the Evil Day (2002). He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847241054 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847241050 |
| Title | An Iron Rose b Format |
| Author | Peter Temple |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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