Teaser Tuesday: An Iron Rose by Peter Temple

Tuesday Teaser is great meme hosted by Should Be Reading and is a great way to find out about new books.Here are the guidelines: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

An Iron Rose by Peter Temple

I chose to read this book in honour of Temple winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first crime novel to win. Although it might seem like this teaser contains spoilers, it doesn't. Here is the teaser:

"Ned had parked within two hundred metres of Dr Barbie's consulting rooms. Two days later, Ned was dead. Hanged. Two days after that, Dr Barbie was dead. Hanged.

The wind was coming up, moaning in the chimney, sound like a faraway wolf. The dog and I went out to the office in search of a telephone number I hadn't used in years."

The style is very spare. Short, sharp sentences. It was a bit annoying at first, but I am used to it now and I am really getting to the mystery.