Peter Temple's Shooting Star is a stand-alone novel about a former soldier/former policeman turned mediator. He's hired as a go-between when a girl is kidnapped. The book is mostly standard hard-boiled detective stuff about wealth and corruption, and it's not really a big stand-out.
One thread in the three Temple books I've read is the redemptive power of creation. One of his protagonists is a wood-worker, one a blacksmith, and here a landscaper. But it's the least developed here, and that's a pity, because I felt that his bits about the blacksmithing/carpentry set his other books apart from the run of the mill.
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