Character guide · 6 books · 1996 to 2009 · Mostly set in Melbourne

Peter Temple

Crime and mysteryPolice procedural Noir and hardboiled Rural crime

Jack Irish, a former criminal lawyer, collects debts, gambles on horses with Harry Strang and makes cabinets in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Temple’s The Broken Shore and Truth, set in the same Victoria, won the Gold Dagger and the Miles Franklin.

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