Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city & returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal & the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It`s a peaceful existence
- ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin`s not so sure & as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption & prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. The relentless story of a town with a hidden past versus a man who is trying to forget his, The Broken Shore delivers powerful, lean writing, pumping more muscle & feeling into one paragraph than other writers can muster in a page.