Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australias most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. Five of his novels have won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime. You don’t even have to have had read the book. Peter Temple (1946-2018) is the author of many crime novels including Truth and The Broken Shore. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. Peter Temple is the grand master of Australian crime writing.The Broken Shoreis Temple’s finest book yet a novel about a place, about family, about politics and power, and the need to live decently in a world where so much is rotten. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. And as another tragedy unfolds, he finds himself holding onto something that might be better let go. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event. Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the homicide squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he.

The Broken Shore by Peter Temple