Alan Carter

From the award-winning author of Marlborough Man and Doom Creek, this atmospheric thriller plunges readers into a blood-soaked crevasse of natural disasters, international intrigue, and calculated murder. The tiny South Island town of Franz Josef is perched precariously on New Zealand's Alpine Fault. It already faces devastating earthquakes, floods, and landslides. And now it harbours a killer. When a body...

Meet Cato Kwong - disgraced cop and ex-poster boy for the metropolitan police force. The world is in economic meltdown, but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy to hide a crime - or a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective...

The riveting third instalment of the Cato Kwong series takes readers into a high-stakes world of subterfuge and cybercrime. When wealthy property developer Francis Tan and his family are found slain in their mansion, Cato Kwong is forced to recall a personal history that makes this investigation doubly painful. Hunting the elusive and brutal killer takes Cato to Shanghai where...

Part espionage thriller, part police procedural, Crocodile Tears shows powerful forces, at home and abroad, determined to keep their secrets buried. At any cost. Detective Philip 'Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old...

Doom Creek is the second book in the award-winning Nick Chester series, filled with scandal, gangsters, and gold fever. Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared. He's out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. However, gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat emerges when a group of trigger-happy Americans...

From award-winning author Alan Carter comes a pacy police procedural that establishes Alan as a master of his craft. Detective Sergeant Philip 'Cato' Kwong is light on sleep but high on happiness with his new wife Sharon and their baby girl. But contentment is not compatible with life in the Job, and soon a series of murders of Fremantle's homeless...

A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy new crime novel from award-winning author Alan Carter. When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an accident after all. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard is hoping for a fresh...

Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of New Zealand's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise — unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own kind of danger. In...

Alan Carter's books have been awarded the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. The Nick Chester series won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction. Getting Warmer brings Cato Kwong back to 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...

Disgraced soldier Sam Willard and DS Jill Wilkie return in the follow-up to Prize Catch. Award-winning crime novelist Alan Carter explores the harsh realities of loyalty, betrayal, and the fight against extremism. While his co-conspirators enjoy a government amnesty, Sam Willard is in prison, paying the price for exposing war crimes. Surrounded by enemies eager for revenge, his greatest challenge...

A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy crime novel from Alan Carter. When Ros Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an accident after all. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard is hoping for a fresh start with a...