Title: Great Dialog, Great Setting, Okay Plot
Review: The things I liked: Excellent character development. Great dialog -- Temple is an Aussie Elmore Leonard in that respect. Pretty good sense of Australia, Melbourne area. Some reviewers here thought the book accurately portrayed the bigotry and social tension in Oz, but that's not what the book was about. It's simply a good police procedural. You won't feel you wasted your time. I enjoyed "Broken Shore" and feel that those who compare Temple with Michael Connelly are not off base. This was my first Temple book, but won't be my last.
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