<p><b>Winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award</b></p><p><b><i>A </i></b><b>BOOKLIST </b><b><i>Best Crime Novel of the Year</i></b></p><p>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. <i>The Broken Shore</i> is a brilliantly intricate crime procedural, and a moving novel about a place, a family, politics, and power.</p>