Several
weeks ago the enterprising Media & Promotions Manager at Freemantle Press,
who knows of my passion for excellent crime fiction from being a visitor to my
blog, sent me an advance copy of GETTING WARMER by Alan Carter, his second
published title. I was so impressed with this novel, couldn’t put it down, that
I immediately asked her for a review copy of his first, PRIME CUT. I have read
this here in idyllic Port Douglas on the first two days of a week-long holiday.
Now I am
not allowed to say anything about GETTING WARMER at this stage as it is not
published until October but I can talk about the first title as it was
published in 2011 and is still in print having been reprinted several times.
Unsurprisingly this first title was shortlisted for the 2010 UK Crime Writer’s
Association Debut Dagger award and then went on in Australia to win the Ned
Kelly Award for Best First Fiction in 2011.
Both novels
are set in Western Australia and both feature the piano-playing Chinese
Australian Detective Cato Wong. He is a hugely appealing and hopefully these
two titles are the first in a long series.
Author Alan
Carter has strong New Zealand connections owning a house in the Marlborough
Sounds near Havelock which he and his family visit as often as they can and where
he plans eventually to live fulltime. And excitingly he has hopes and plans for
a new detective series based in the Nelson/Tasman/Marlborough districts
featuring a former undercover cop now living in New Zealand under a witness
protection programme. Meantime he tells me he has at least three more Cato
novels planned. Bravo I say.
2 comments:
He must be one of my neighbours.
Thanks very much for this Graham, much appreciated feedback. Hoping you also like GETTING WARMER and looking forward to hearing your thoughts after embargo time! Best wishes, Alan Carter
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