Crimson Lake

Informationen zum Autor Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney s western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers. Candice won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards for her first two novels Hades and Eden . She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fall , Crimson Lake , Redemption and Gone by Midnight . Candice s first collaboration with James Patterson, Never Never , was a Sunday Times and New York Times no. 1 bestseller. They have co-authored three further novels featuring Harriet Blue Fifty Fifty , Liar Liar and Hush Hush . Klappentext An ingenious and edgy suspense novel from the award-winning author of "Hades & Eden"! "Crimson Lake" tells the story of Amanda Pharrell and Ted Conkaffey - and one of them has been accused of the abduction of a little girl... 'One of the best crime thrillers of the year!' Lee Child. Zusammenfassung From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Never Never comes an ingenious and edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very last page . . . 12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes - that's all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of Claire's abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. Amanda Pharrell knows what it's like to be public enemy no.1. Maybe it's her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own - so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey. But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair's every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide . . . ...

Préface
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Never Never comes an ingenious and edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very last page . . .

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Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers.

Candice won back-to-back Ned Kelly awards for her first two novels - Hades and Eden. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption and Gone by Midnight. Candice's first collaboration with James Patterson, Never Never, was a Sunday Times and New York Times no. 1 bestseller. They have co-authored three further novels featuring Harriet Blue - Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar and Hush Hush.

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An ingenious and edgy suspense novel from the award-winning author of "Hades & Eden", "Crimson Lake" tells the story of Amanda Pharrell and Ted Conkaffey - and one of them has been accused of the abduction of a little girl... 'One of the best crime thrillers of the year,' Lee Child.