β Scribed by Peter Temple
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2012 German International Deutscher Krimipreis.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach.
So begins Truth , the companion novel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore , winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Crime Novel.
Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling.
Truth is an extraordinary novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.
'Truth is about family and morality, city and countryside,...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
### From Publishers Weekly The death of a nameless prostitute in a glitzy Melbourne high-rise is the first in a series of crimes that Insp. Stephen Villani discovers are all tied to protecting the interests of the city's elite in this brutal tale of corruption, greed, and revenge from Australian au
En tenΓ₯ringsprostituert blir funnet med brukket nakke i en leilighet i The Prosilo, en ny lekeplass for de rike. Til tross for omfattende sikkerhetstiltak i bygget, vet ingen hvem som har drept henne, og ledelsen har kontakter hΓΈyt oppe i regjeringen. Mordetterforsker Stephen Villani fΓΈler ikke at d
William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people