{"product_id":"9781466806740","title":"The Broken Shore: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won't be long before he is recognized as what he really is--one of the nation's finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broken Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with death, he's posted away from the Homicide Squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and more than a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. But when a prominent local is attacked in his own home and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence points to three boys from the nearby aboriginal community--everyone seems to want to blame them. Cashin is unconvinced, and soon begins to see the outlines of something far more terrible than a burglary gone wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Colin Roderick Award for Australian writing as well as Australia's major prize for crime fiction, the Ned Kelly Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Shore \u003c\/i\u003eis a transfixing and moving novel about a place, a family, politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171824419056,"sku":"9781466806740","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466806740_p0.jpg?v=1769890836","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466806740","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}