Carole A Sutton

About the author: Carole Sutton

Reared in the county of Devon in England, Carole's earliest memory is of the Exeter blitz in 1942. Married in 1960 Carole and her husband reared their three children in Cornwall. They built their own sailing boats and sailed the English Channel, visiting ports on the French coast for their holidays.

They moved to the warmer climes of Perth in Western Australia in 1981, and took up a small retail business. Ten years later, on retirement, Carole had time to indulge in her personal pursuit, writing. She attended a creative writing course in 1995 and shortly after, Rawlhouse published her junior fiction book Gus, Sore Feet -- No Collar.

In that year, she became a member of a professional writing group that met on a weekly basis to discuss and review each other's work. They still do to this day. Carole followed up her 'Gus' success with short stories that were published in various anthologies, and articles with photographs in wildlife magazines before she started on her novels.

Although she has short stories and wildlife articles to her name, Carole’s real passion is writing crime fiction. With her love of Cornwall unabated she combines the two interests and sets her crime locations around boats and rivers.

Ferryman, published by YouWriteOn.com in 2008, was her first novel. Her second, (2009) And the Devil Laughed, is set in Australia on the banks of the Parramatta River. October 2010, saw her third book, Blood Opal, published and available from Amazon.com, Book Depository.

January 2012 saw the release of her fourth novel, Flash Harry, crime fiction set in Australia and Bangkok, Thailand.