![]() "They're the sort of manuscripts you go into publishing for from the first paragraph you cannot stop reading, and you're just struck by the distinctiveness of the narrative voice and the strength."īad Debts was Peter Temple's first foray into crime writing and was later adapted into the ABC Television series, Jack Irish, based on the series' private investigator. "I remember reading the first paragraph, and being electrified," Ms Thurtell said. Louise Thurtell was a young publisher at Harper Collins in 1995, when a manuscript in her favourite genre - crime fiction - came across her Sydney desk. The South-African born author won the Miles Franklin book award in 2010 for his crime fiction novel, Truth - a book about police corruption, murder and politics. ![]() The Australian literary world is mourning the loss of the internationally acclaimed crime writer Peter Temple, who died of cancer in Ballarat aged 71. ![]()
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