Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When Peter Temple died last month, we duly mourned the gap he left in our literature. We lost a Miles Franklin winner, hailed as the ...

Temple won the 2010 Miles Franklin for Truth, arguably becoming the first crime writer to collect our paramount book prize. I say arguably because Temple was dismissive of labels. Truth loosely ...

Peter Temple is a writer in the crime genre, but that's where the formula ends because he is deeply interested in language, he is funny and wry and he is a devastating student of the human psyche.

Temple, considered the first crime writer to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, died at his home in Ballarat on Thursday, with his wife Anita and their adult son Nicholas at his side. South Africa ...