Peter Temple Ordre des livres

Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.

Inmitten verheerender Waldbrände bedroht eine Feuerwalze Melbourne. Eine junge Frau wird in einem Luxuskomplex ermordet aufgefunden. Ermittler Stephen Villani wird bei den Nachforschungen von Politikern behindert und ist zusätzlich von der Ähnlichkeit der Ermordeten mit seiner verschwundenen Tochter betroffen.

"Her name was Sarah Longmore and she was charged with murdering her former lover." When Jack Irish is asked to look into Sarah Longmore's defence, he's more than happy to oblige. After all, whenever somebody seems as guilty as Sarah does, it's usually for a good reason. But her case will prove far from straightforward, and Jack's investigation far from swift and painless.

The Cold War is long dead but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm. At night he drinks too much, paranoid about the suspicions he glimpses in the eyes of strangers. In London, Caroline Wishart calls herself an exposé journalist. The story she has stumbled on could make her career - or is she playing somebody else's game? Into both their lives comes ex-mercenary Con Niemand, bearing an explosive secret, a secret with the power to topple governments and destroy them all. A powerful and compelling thriller, In the Evil Day conjures a world where information is more dangerous than explosives and secrets are more important than human life.

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. Anne Carson is fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. The rich Carsons have closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder. This is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family. But are the two events connected? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. And his every step may end a girl's life.

When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.'A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend Ned Lowey is found hanged, Mac - who has learned the hard way never to accept things at face value - isn't convinced he committed suicide and starts asking questions.Why did Ned keep press cuttings about the skeleton of a girl found in an old mine shaft? What was he doing at Kinross Hall, the local detention centre for juvenile girls? Who was the beaten girl found naked beside a lonely road?As Mac's search for answers pushes deeper into the past, it resurrects the terrifying spectre of what he calls his 'old life', forcing him to turn to long-discarded skills not only to discover why his best friend died, but also to save his own life.

Jack Irish - gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found - has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from going down for murder.

Jack Irish zum Dritten: ein Muss für alle Krimi-Fans! Winter in Melbourne: Anwalt Jack Irish kommt bei seinem neuen Fall nicht weiter. Im Auftrag des Richters Colin Loder soll Irish den Barkeeper Robbie Colburne finden, denn dieser besitzt etwas, das Loder gehört. Doch bevor Jack es sich versieht, ist Colburne tot, und er selbst bekommt eine Videokassette zugeschickt, auf der das Opfer auf dem Gelände der Firma CATHEXIS zu sehen ist. Und dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Es stellt sich heraus, dass der Tote gar nicht Colburne ist, und jemand, der verhindern will, dass Irish ermittelt, setzt einen Killer auf ihn an.

Stephen Villani is the acting head of the Victoria Police homicide squad. His first months on the job have not gone well: two Aboriginal teenagers shot dead, and no progress on the killing of a man in front of his daughter. Now 5 men are found dead in horrifying circumstances. Winner Miles Franklin Award 2010.