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EDEN

Candice Fox

The breaktaking new thriller from the author of Hades, winner of the Ned Kelly award for Best Debut Crime Novel.
Most police duos run on trust, loyalty, and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett's partner, the enigmatic Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but darkness and danger. She doesn't mind catching killers – but it's not the courthouse where her justice is served.

And now Eden is about to head undercover to find three missing girls. The only link between the victims is a remote farm where the desperate go to hide and blood falls more often than rain. For Frank, the priority is to keep his partner monitored 24/7 while she's there – but is it for Eden's protection, or to protect their suspects from her?

Across the city at the Utulla Tip, someone is watching Hades Archer, a man whose criminal reputation is the stuff of legend. Unmasking the stalker for him might be just what Frank needs to stay out of trouble while Eden's away.

But it's going to take a trip into Hades's past to discover the answers - and what Frank uncovers may well put everyone in danger . . .

Candice Fox taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.

HADES, her first novel, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014. EDEN is the sequel.

EDEN
Deutsch von Thomas Woertche
[PB Suhrkamp 09/16]
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Published 2014-12-01 by Bantam Australia

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Hades, Candice Fox's first novel, announced the arrival of an important new voice in Australian crime fiction. It won the Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction in 2014, with the judges complimenting the author on her genre-bending blend of horror and crime. Eden is equally breathtaking in its audacity. This is crime fiction informed not so much by the literary past of the genre, as by television's Dexter and Breaking Bad, the ironically violent films of Quentin Tarantino and the graphic novels of Frank Miller. While Eden might double up with Miller's female assassin Elektra, Sydney emerges from Fox's pages as an antipodean Sin City. Read more...