Crimson Lake

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Lani Tupu

Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's Summary

Winner of Best Thriller/Suspense audiobook at the Audies 2019

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Crimson Lake by Candice Fox, read by Lani Tupu. 

From the New York Times best-selling coauthor of Never Never comes an ingenious and edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very end....

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 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....

©2018 Candice Fox (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks

Critic Reviews

"A fast-paced, expertly crafted read with a cast of colourful characters." (Guardian)

"One of the best crime thrillers of the year." (Lee Child)

"A bright new star of crime fiction." (James Patterson)

Aussie noir: As dark as it gets

...this is as dark as it gets!
If you only listen to one book this summer - make it this one

Atmospheric

I’ve been enjoying a lot of Australian Crime and Thrillers lately, and this one was particularly good.

Although I find the ‘good man with a dark past’ Detective a little overdone, in this novel it actually feels right, perhaps because the tale of that dark past is fully explained and would work well as a novel in its own right.

The setting is wonderful. After lots of hot, arid, vast open spaces as the settings for the Australian novels I’ve read recently, this was set in a hot, wet, swampy countryside that was just as thoroughly Aussie, but a welcome change. The constant threat of crocodiles was very interesting.

excellent pace and performance.

Thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. The pace of the plots kept my interest throughout. The narrator was absolutely excellent too. some

Great story line. Many twists and turns.

Jake and Amanda makes a good team. Good characters and intriguing story, with good twists.

hard going listening

only finished it to find out the convoluted plot finish. Overly flowery descriptions, repetitive, cartoonist characters. eye rolling and skipping through chapters.