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Cathy Cole
Dry Dock is Cathy Cole's first published novel and features a private investigator called Nicola Sharpe. Nicola is six feet tall, looks like Annie Lennox of the band, the Eurythmics and is fourth generation Balmain. Cathy started writing Dry Dock when she was living in Melbourne and homesick for Sydney. Balmain is a fascinating place full of contrasts and contradictions.
Crime fiction wasn't Cathy's first foray into literature. She's had poetry and short stories published and won a writing fellowship to Varuna Writer's Centre to work on a novel. A year later the novel manuscript was commended in a national book award. But somehow the harbour and Balmain's narrow street's lent themselves very well to the crime genre, so crime it was.
A sense of place and local colour is really important to Cathy. She's visited Hanoi and written stories about the French influence there. As a passionate traveller she always keeps a detailed notebook of her observations wherever she goes. Cathy is also finishing her PhD on politics in Australian literature at the University of Technology in Sydney.
Available Books by Cathy Cole
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Dry Dock
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876631291
RRP: $18.95
Balmain, once the industrial, blue-collar engine room of Sydney, is being transformed. The older locals are being squeezed out by the cashed-up developers and hungry young professionals keen for a town house near the city. Water views add value . . . but are they worth killing for?
Enter Nicole Sharpe, a twenty-nine-year-old private investigator. She's lived in Balmain all her life and is wor...
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Skin Deep
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876631208
RRP: $18.95
Private detective Nicola Sharpe is 29 and looks like Annie Lennox. She lives in Balmain and works the waterfront. Hired to protect the precocious daughter of an artist, she finds herself drawn into violent conflict with a One Nation-like political group, whose leader is having an affair with Nicola's client. And then the murders start....
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Dry Dock
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732266967
A story that explores Balmain's working class past and the recent industrial history of Cockatoo Island.
Nicola is a private investigator. She has been living in Balmain for as long as she can remember unlike most of her neighbours she grew up in the old inner-Sydney wharfie haunt. She is working for Kevin O'Leary, an old lefty and a mate of her father. He knows some ugly truths about th...
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The Grave At Thu Le
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330421683
The desire for a holiday and a break from her life in Paris prompts Catherine Danyers to visit Hanoi to trace her family's history in the city. The family first moved to Hanoi from France in 1900, where her great-great-grandfather, Claude Danyers, built the bridge that spans the Red River. Generations followed, participating in the life of the colonial settlement, leaving only as the Viet Minh...
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