Gathering Dark

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. All her subsequent novels – Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight – have been shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award.

In 2015 Candice began collaborating with James Patterson. Their first novel together, Never Never, set in the vast Australian outback, was a huge bestseller in Australia and went straight to number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in the US and also to the top of the charts in the UK. Their subsequent novels Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar and Hush Hush have all been massive bestsellers across the world. Their most recent collaboration, The Inn, was released in August 2019. Bankstown born and bred, Candice lives in Sydney.

‘Candice Fox’s brilliant crime novel set in LA that will surely garner her a whole new set of readers . . . Gathering Dark is expansive, generous and thoroughly engaging and will surely cement Fox’s reputation as one of Australia’s finest new gen crime writers. It’s that good.’ Sydney Morning Herald

‘Suspend disbelief and prepare for a wild, funny yet ultimately sobering ride. That’s my advice for anyone new to Candice Fox’s thrillers…Fox’s books are models of the professional thriller writer’s craft and Gathering Dark is true to form. Audacious things are done, at a cracking pace, the punchy prose designed to make readers share the characters’ physical sensations.’ The Australian

‘Gathering Dark is Candice Fox’s best book so far, which makes it bloody good.’ Laurie Oakes

‘Candice Fox’s writing is inventive, thrilling and totally addictive.’ James Patterson

‘The queen of the creepily compulsive thriller.’ WHO magazine

‘A master of the genre . . . grisly, original and exhilarating.’ Saturday Paper