Dead Point by Peter Temple

He was closing in on me. I could hear his running foot-steps over the sound of my heart, of the blood in my ears, of my panting. The Children’s playground ahead, beyond that the road gleaming wetly in the streetlight, the school, a light on in the school, a cleaner at work…If I could reach the road. Just reach the road. Jack Irish – lawyer, gambler and people-finder – is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose… ‘Peter Temple’s latest thriller grows on the listener. With its array of characters and subplots, the book is an excellent vehicle for narrator Michael Carman, whose effective use of tone permits listeners to keep track of all the characters without losing sight of the story. Carman’s light and warm voice is a good fit, and he paces the material well. It’s as if he can imagine listeners poised over their scorecards.’ — AudioFile Magazine (Aug 08)

Review My first encounter with the multi-prizewinning Australian writer Peter Temple, and the experience has left me hot on the trail of his earlier books - Guardian Characterisation, dialogue and the quality of the prose are all top-class - Sunday Telegraph Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment - Evening Standard

About the Author Peter Temple has won the Ned Kelly Award five times and is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels, Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point and White Dog. The Broken Shore won the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2007 for Crime Fiction and the Ned Kelly Award 2006. He is South African by birth and lives in Ballarat, Australia with his family.