The Broken Shore: A Novel

Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award

 

A Booklist Best Crime Novel of the Year

 

Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town in on the Australian coast. But soon the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets. The Broken Shore is a brilliantly intricate crime procedural, and a moving novel about a place, a family, politics, and power.