#1 New York Times bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller, which sees Ted Conkaffey once again teaming up with an unlikely partner - this time the father of the girl he was accused of abducting . . .SHORTLISTED FOR THE NED KELLY AWARD 2018When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rainforest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from Claire?s devastated father.Dale Bingley has a brutal revenge plan all worked out - and if Ted doesn?t help find the real abductor, he?ll be its first casualty. Meanwhile, in a dark roadside hovel called the Barking Frog Inn, the bodies of two young bartenders lie on the beer-sodden floor. It?s Detective Inspector Pip Sweeney?s first homicide investigation - complicated by the arrival of private detective Amanda Pharrell to 'assist? on the case. Amanda?s conviction for murder a decade ago has left her with some odd behavioural traits, top-to-toe tatts - and a keen eye for killers.For Ted and Amanda, the hunt for the truth will draw them into a violent dance with evil. Redemption is certainly on the cards - but it may well cost them their lives . . .' a brilliant and original thriller' Sunday Times'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox' Lee Child'A bright new star of crime fiction' James Patterson
