Dry Dock by Cathy Cole, ISBN 9781876631291

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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 worried about what's happening in her suburb. When a friend of her father's suspects major union fraud then disappears, and a local resident suffers repeated threats and vandalism, Nicola realises that something is very, very wrong. On Cockatoo Island, an evil secret is about to surface.

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About the Author: 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.

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