Crocodile Tears

The fifth and thrilling instalment in Alan Carter’s Cate Kwong crime series. When Detective Cato Kwong is called to investigate the death of a retiree found murdered in his suburban Australian home, the details are gruesome – the body has been hacked to pieces. Following the trail of clues, the case will take Cato to Timor-Leste to uncover the truth behind this violent crime with some unexpected twists. Except this time, he’s not alone. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato’s experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain. Resourceful, multilingual, and hard as nails, Rory has been Canberra’s go-to guy when things get sticky in the Asia-Pacific. Now Rory wants out. But first he’s needed to chaperone a motley group of whistleblowers with a price on their heads. And there’s one on his, too.

Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and now lives just south of Hobart. He sometimes works as a television documentary director. In his spare time he plunges into the icy Tasmanian waters for fun. He is the author of the Nick Chester series, Marlborough Man and Doom Creek, set in NZ, and the award-winning Cato Kwong novels – Prime Cut, Getting Warmer, Bad Seed and Heaven Sent. Crocodile Tears is the fifth book in the series.