Getting Warmer (31 page)
Many thanks to Michael Rowson, Greg Balfour, and Rex Haw of the Western Australian Police Service for showing me the delightful yellow decor of the Fremantle Detectives offices and answering my sometimes silly questions about the finer aspects of life on the thin blue line. Likewise Brian Cowie of the WA Department of Corrective Services for the tour of Casuarina Prison. Anything that is right is down to them – anything that is wrong is all my own work. Thanks also to Jim McGinty for some clarifications on certain points of law and to Dr Isaac Harvey for showing me what kind of damage you can do with a ballpoint pen. I owe a Fat Yak to early reader Dave Whish-Wilson for his timely wisdom and encouragement.
Undying gratitude as always to Georgia Richter for editorially steering me through the turbulent seas of the second novel. Also to Conor McCarthy and Naama Amram for insightful feedback along the way. To Clive Newman, Claire Miller and everyone else at Fremantle Press, thanks heaps for looking after me and making me feel at home. As ever, my wife Kath and my son Liam should be granted sainthood for putting up with those many periods of me staring blankly into space. Usually it was because I was trying to think great criminal and literary thoughts.
Alan Carter was born in Sunderland in the United Kingdom. He holds a degree in Communication Studies from Sunderland Polytechnic and immigrated to Australia in 1991 where he now works as a television documentary director. Alan’s first novel
Prime Cut
was shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award 2010 and received a Ned Kelly in 2011 for Best First Book.
Getting Warmer
is the second novel in the Cato Kwong series. Alan lives in Fremantle with his wife Kath and son Liam.
First published in Australia by Fremantle Press in 2013
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by
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