Getting Warmer

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case— the unsolved mystery of a missing 15-year-old girl. But it’ s midsummer in the city of millionaires and it’ s not just the heat that stinks. A pig corpse, peppered with nails, is uncovered in a shallow grave and a body, with its throat cut, turns up in the local nightclub. As a series of blunders by Cato’ s colleague brings the squad under intense scrutiny, Cato’ s own sympathy for a suspect threatens to derail his case and his career.

Alan Carter is a British writer living in Australia where he also works as a television documentary director. He is the author of Prime Cut and a recipient of the  Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK, in 1959. He holds a degree in Communications Studies from Sunderland Polytechnic and immigrated to Australia in 1991. Alan lives in Fremantle with his wife Kath and son Liam. He works as a television documentary director. In his spare time he follows a black line up and down the Fremantle pool. Prime Cut is Alan Carter’ s first novel. He wrote it while he was living in Hopetoun as a kept man.