I pulled this off the Newbooks shelf
because it looked like it contained a lot of short, snappy dialogue and I was
not disappointed in the writer’s style. This was a fast, satisfying read. I had
not heard of Peter Temple before picking this book up but I intend to
investigate his other books.
Shooting Star is about the abduction
of a wealthy family’s 15 year-old daughter.
Not too far into the book it becomes apparent that this family has a lot
of secrets and skeletons. The
investigator who is called in, Frank Calder, is an ex-cop and ex-serviceman
with secrets and skeletons of his own.
Frank enlists the aid of a colleague
named Mick Orlovsky whose background is similar to Frank’s background. Of Mick, Frank muses “he was neatly dressed
and clean-shaven but he always managed to give the impression that he’d escaped
from somewhere”. Orlovsky does not
disappoint as a sidekick to Frank.
Together Mick and Frank look into the
girl’s disappearance and the family secrets and eventually find answers. As I said, this is a fast, satisfying read.
By the way, Peter Temple is an Australian author.
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