![]() ![]() ), who has won five Ned Kelly Awards, examines Australian political and social divisions underlying the deceptively simple murder case. His unauthorized inquiry, which takes him both back in time and sideways into a netherworld of child pornography and sexual abuse, leads to a shocking conclusion. When the department closes the case, Joe, a melancholy, combative cynic sympathetic to underdogs, decides to find the truth on his own. After three aboriginal teens try to sell Bourgoyne's missing watch, the cops ambush the boys, killing two. ![]() There he investigates the beating death of elderly millionaire Charles Bourgoyne. In Temple's beautifully written eighth crime novel, Joe Cashin, a city homicide cop recovering from an injury, returns to the quiet coastal area of South Australia where he grew up. ![]()
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