What do Patricia Cornwell, Dick Francis, Ian Rankin, John Le Carre and Ruth Rendell have in common with Peter Temple (pictured)?

Winning "the world's richest prize for crime writing".

Perry at Matilda is gonna love this story.

One critique affirmed that tmeple's latest book, The Broken Shore, combined "first-rate" crime fiction with "a literary sensibility". So sofa-sleuths do value quality...