Truth

Peter Temple · 2009 CE · Novel · Australian · Contemporary

Stephen Villani, head of Melbourne's homicide squad, is called to a young woman's body in a luxury tower flat while bushfires gather around the state. The case, and an estranged family, pull him into the corruption of his own force. The first crime novel to win the Miles Franklin Award, in 2010.

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