From theNew York Timesbestselling co-author ofNever Never. Read the brand new voice in crime that Lee Child, Harlan Coben and James Patterson are raving about.

Six minutes.Thats all it takes to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffeys life. Accused but not convicted of Claires abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.

Amanda Pharrell knows what its like to be public enemy no.1. Maybe its 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 pairs every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide . . .

Candice is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydneys 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 novelsHadesandEden. She is also the author of the critically acclaimedFalland co-writer with James Patterson of theSunday TimesNo.1 bestsellerNever Neverset in the Australian outback.