It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. Villani's job as head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. So begins Truth, the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore.

Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead. (Identity Theory in the US), as well as The Broken Shore and its semi-sequel, Truth. 5.0 Somewhere along the way I picked up the notion that it’s okay for your personal life to be hopelessly, irredeemably fucked divorced, alcoholic, sleeping in a flophouse as long as you’re also a homicide detective. But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Peter Temple (10 March 1946 8 March 2018) was an Australian crime fiction writer. Only show reviews with written explanations. Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the 2012 German International Deutscher Krimipreis. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.

Truth by Peter Temple