2000-2009 Top Crime Novels.  The Times in London has listed its top crime novels for the past decade.  Australia's Peter Temple won the 2006 spot with his novel The Broken Shore. 

"All the things that make Temple’s books such pleasurable experiences are here: the steady, satisfying unravelling of a mystery, the gallery of idiosyncratic characters (notably the beleaguered — and conflicted — protagonist). But the prime Temple virtue — sheer storytelling acumen — is what makes The Broken Shore so distinctive."  The Times.

The other top choices were:

2000:  Nineteen Seventy-Seven by David Peace
2001:  Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2002:  Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
2003:  The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
2004:  The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
2005:  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
2006:  The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
2007:  Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas
2008:  Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield
2009:  Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason