Shooting Star - Softcover

Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year - Mark Billingham (Mark Billingham)

Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment - Evening Standard (Evening Standard)

Temple ratchets up the tension in his inimitable style . he remains one of the best thriller writers in the world - Sunday Express (Sunday Express)

Temple is the master of the complex plot and his characters leap from the page . a taut action-packed thriller - Sunday Telegraph (Sunday Telegraph)

Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.