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People come to Hades Archer to dispose of their 'problems' - for a fee. But one night he makes a decision that will change everything. Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his finger on. And as they race to catch a serial killer, Frank starts to wonder if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt.

Most police duos run on trust and their shared desire to see killers standing up in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, the enigmatic Eden Archer, offers him darkness and danger. She doesn't mind catching killers - but it's not the courthouse where her justice is served. As Eden heads undercover to work on a remote farm - a place linked to three missing girls - Frank's priority is to monitor her 24-7, but is it for Eden's protection or to protect their suspects from her?

Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy number one. 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.

From the Sunday Times number one best-selling author comes the thrilling second instalment in the Crimson Lake series. In a dark roadside hovel called the Barking Fog Inn, the bodies of two young bartenders lie on a beer-sodden floor. Only the nighttime animals in the surrounding forest were close enough to hear their screams. Crimson Lake's resident private detectives are hired to take on the case.

Hades, Candice Fox's first novel, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back to back. Her third novel, Fall, was short-listed for the 2016 Ned Kelly and Davitt awards. She is also the author of the best-selling thrillers Crimson Lake and Redemption Point, featuring ex-cop Ted Conkaffey.

If Detective Frank Bennett tries hard enough, he can sometimes forget that his partner, Eden Archer, is also moonlighting as a serial killer. Thankfully their latest case is proving a good distraction. Someone is angry at Sydney's beautiful people, and the results are anything but pretty. On the rain-soaked running tracks of Sydney's parks, a predator is lurking, and it's not long before nighttime jogging become a race to stay alive.

Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half-sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency - a young man who claims he was abducted the night before. Soon, Rhonda and Baby are entangled in a bizarre yet dangerous case.

Detective Harriet Blue needs to get out of town fast. With her brother under arrest for a series of brutal murders in Sydney, Harry's chief wants the hotheaded detective kept far from the press. So he assigns her a deadly new case - in the middle of the Outback. Deep in the Western Australian desert, three young people have disappeared from the Bandya Mine. And it's Harry's job to track them down. But still reeling from events back home, and with a secretive new partner at her side, Harry's not sure who she can trust anymore.

Blair Harbour, once a wealthy, respected surgeon in Los Angeles, is now an ex-con down on her luck. She's determined to keep her nose clean to win back custody of her son. But when her former cellmate, Sneak Lawlor, begs for help to find her missing daughter, Blair is compelled to put her new-found freedom on the line. Joined by LA's most feared underworld figure, Ada Maverick, the crew of criminals bring outlaw tactics to the search for Dayly. 

The thrilling follow-up to best seller Never Never. It's not easy being a good detective - especially when your brother's a serial killer. Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. Except she's now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75)....

When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out from Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. But for John Kradle, this is his one chance to prove his innocence, 26 years after the murder of his wife and child. He just needs to stay one step ahead of the teams of law enforcement officers he knows will be chasing the escapees down. 

Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she’s determined to prove it. Except she’s now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75), where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan - the massacre of the entire town. And the first death, shortly after Harry’s arrival, suggests the clock is already ticking.  

Ex-Boston homicide detective Billy Robinson has retreated to a quiet life on the New England coast. Struggling to cope following the death of his beloved wife, he must now run the inn that Siobhan took care of so well. The inn's quirky residents help keep Billy on solid ground as he grieves, and the group soon become an unconventional family. But this small town is in the grips of a growing opioid epidemic, and when a young resident gets hooked into the crisis, Billy knows he must act to save the people in the inn that he has grown to care so much about. 

Harriet Blue used to be a detective. Now she’s inmate 3329. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop – as Harriet is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her two-year-old child have gone missing. He’s ready to offer Harriet a deal: find his family to buy her freedom....

Sechs Minuten, für die er kein Alibi hat - mehr braucht es nicht, um das Leben von Detective Ted Conkaffey vollständig zu ruinieren. Die Anklage gegen ihn wegen Vergewaltigung der dreizehnjährigen Claire wird zwar fallengelassen, doch alle Welt glaubt zu wissen, dass er schuldig ist. Um der gesellschaftlichen Ächtung zu entgehen, zieht sich der Ex-Cop nach Crimson Lake im Norden Australiens zurück und trifft dort auf Amanda Pharrell. Auch diese saß wegen eines angeblichen Verbrechens im Gefängnis.

Hades ist der "Herr der Unterwelt" von Sydney. Er weiß alles über das Verbrechen in seiner Stadt, denn auf seiner gigantischen Müllhalde entsorgt er gegen Honorar Menschen, die gewaltsam zu Tode gekommen sind. Dieses Schicksal hätten auch beinahe die Kleinkinder Eden und Eric geteilt, die man bei Hades deponiert hat. Aber die beiden leben noch. Sie wachsen bei Hades auf und werden Top-Cops bei der Mordkommission von Sydney. Das ist jedoch nur eines ihrer eines Gesicht, ihr eines Konzept von "Gerechtigkeit".

Der letzte Band der phänomenalen Trilogie um Eden Archer und Frank Bennett: Eden, Top-Cop bei der Mordkommission von Sydney, ist nach ihrem Undercover-Einsatz schwer angeschlagen. Das hält sie aber nicht davon ab, mit dem weiterzumachen, was sie am besten kann: in nächtlichen Streifzügen Killer und Psychopathen aufzuspüren und für immer aus dem Verkehr zu ziehen. Ihr Kollege Frank ahnt ihr dunkles Geheimnis, hält jedoch still - noch.

Als der achtjährige Richie scheinbar spurlos aus einem Hotelzimmer verschwindet, übernehmen die Ermittler Ted Conkaffey und Amanda Pharrell die Suche nach dem vermissten Jungen. Und begeben sich dabei selbst in große Gefahr.

Heinrich Archer, genannt Hades, das kriminelle Mastermind von Sydney, wird bedroht. Er 'bittet' Detective Frank Bennett, den Kollegen seiner Tochter Eden, um diskrete Hilfe, denn die Spuren könnten tief in das faszinierende, gewaltsatte Vorleben von Hades führen. Gleichzeitig hat Eden, Top-Detective bei der Mordkommission mit dem seltenen Talent, Verbrecher aufzuspüren und zur Strecke zu bringen, einen extrem schwierigen Auftrag.

Ted Conkaffey, Ex-Cop und unschuldig unter Verdacht, eine 13-Jährige entführt zu haben, kann seine Vergangenheit nicht loswerden. Als der Vater des Opfers in Crimson Lake auftaucht und Vergeltung fordert, bleibt ihm keine Wahl: Er muss den wahren Täter finden - koste es, was es wolle. Währenddessen ist seine Privatdetektiv-Partnerin, die geniale, einst wegen Mordes verurteilte Amanda Pharrell, mit einem anderen Fall beschäftigt: dem Doppelmord an zwei Mitarbeitern einer üblen Kneipe, der zunächst wie ein simpler Raubmord aussieht.