Bad Debts

Bad Debts is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple. This is the first novel in the author's Jack Irish series.

Dedication

"For Anita and Nicholas : true believers."

Awards

Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 1997: joint winner

Publication history

Also published in USA, in Canada, in the UK and in the Netherlands, in a Dutch-language edition with a translation by Paul Witte.

Television adaptation

This novel was adapted into an Australian television movie Jack Irish: Bad Debts in 2016, which was directed by Jeffrey Walker, from a script by Peter Temple, and featuring Guy Pearce in the lead role.

Reviews

Publishers Weekly

''Reviewing the Evidence''