It also won the Colin Roderick Prize for best Australian book and the Australian Book Publishers' Award for best general fiction. His novel, The Broken Shore (Quercus) won Duncan Lawrie Crime Writers’ Association Dagger for the Best Novel, the first Australian to do so. Peter Temple, former journalist, is an acclaimed Australian crime and thriller writer who has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime writing in his native Australia five times. When I closed The Broken Shore, I felt a tingle throughout my body and I knew that I had read possibly one of the best crime books this year (2006).” “ You know you've read a good book because it stays with you long after you've read the final page, and the hairs on the back of your neck are standing on end.
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