Getting Warmer by Alan Carter

RRP: $37.00NZ

Fremantle Press - Format: C Format Extent: 352 pp

About the Book

Cato Kwong is back. Back in Boom Town and back on a real case – the unsolved mystery of a missing fifteen-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.

About the Author

Alan Carter is a crime writer who has been shortlisted for the prestigious UK CWA Debut Dagger Award, was runner-up in the Penguin Crime Writing Competition and who won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction in 2011. He is a TV documen­tary director and currently works for Who Do You Think You Are? on SBS1. Carter wrote his first book Prime Cut while living as a ‘kept man’ in Hopetoun, on the south coast of WA.Later in 2013 Alan will head to Shanghai to write the third Cato Kwong book in the series.

Footnote:
I read this a while ago in advance proof copy form and was hugely impressed. Here is my earlier comment.