Peter Temple: Truth. 2010
Ljudbok (mp3, ca 10 h)

”In a summer of devastating forest fires in Australia, Inspector Stephen Villani, head of the Victoria homicide squad, has a spate of new killings to contend with. A woman has been found in a luxury apartment block with her neck broken. There is little hope of identifying her, and the apartment’s residents are proving impossible to trace. Meanwhile, the mutilated bodies of three drug dealers have been discovered in an abandoned warehouse across the city. Villani’s attempts to uncover the facts behind these crimes are obstructed from almost every angle: the owner of the apartment block has many influential friends, and is keen to preserve the reputation of his investment; politicians, senior police officers and figures in the media all throw their weight against the investigation, while Villani’s own subordinates undermine him at every turn.
Villani himself is an adulterous husband and an inadequate, guilt-ridden father and son; it emerges that he once helped another officer to disguise the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect as an act of self-defence. He begins to realise that one of his colleagues might be among the people responsible for the crimes he’s investigating.”

Jag har inte läst många deckare från Australien – den här var lite svårt att hålla uppe koncentrationen för, undrar varför…