Prime Cut

A deadly debut, ambitious and multi-layered. A very promising start to a new career. --Allan Guthrie

This is a great debut book, introducing a detective with loads of appeal who deserves, and seems destined for, a series. --Sunday Times

As with all good crime fiction there are many layers to this story, genuine "aha" moments and a very strong cast of main and supporting characters. --Australian Bookseller + Publisher

The world is in economic meltdown but the mining town of Hopetoun in Western Australia is booming. With the town's population exploding, its easy enough to hide a crime - and a dirty past! Disgraced police-service golden boy, DSC Cato Kwong, is doing time investigating roadkill with the Stock Squad. But when the ocean throws up a human torso onto the shores of Hopetoun, Cato is called in from the cold. Cato faces powerful opposition in the town when his investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers The stakes are raised even higher when the Chinese whispers started by Cato disturb an even darker criminal mind. Prime Cut was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award, and won Australia's Ned Kelly Award for best debut crime fiction in 2011.