[Note: “Fire With Fire” is published April 2023] Hot on the heels of “The Chase” (‘her most ambitious and byzantine novel’), Candice Fox returns with another cinematic blockbuster loaded with nail-biting suspense, bountiful twists, and a crackling narrative style. It’s the kind of thriller you can’t stop reading, but don’t want to end: you’ll enjoy … Continue reading Review: Fire With Fire by Candice Fox
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My Favourite Books of 2021
Most years I split my “favourite” stacks into regular fiction and crime fiction, but this time round ― mainly because we just had a baby, and I'm typing this with one hand while my other comforts our daughter ―I decided to just grab the ten books that most entertained, moved me, or provoked the most … Continue reading My Favourite Books of 2021
Review: The Chase by Candice Fox
More than six hundred of the United States' most dangerous prisoners break out from Pronghorn Correctional Facility in this turbocharged suspenser from Candice Fox — her most ambitious and byzantine novel yet. As some of the scariest humans on the planet flee into the Nevada desert following a bold escape plan actioned by persons unknown, death row supervisor … Continue reading Review: The Chase by Candice Fox
Review: Fall by Candice Fox
With her first two novels Candice Fox carved a distinctive square on the map of contemporary crime writing. Taut with suspense, well-oiled plot mechanics, explosive bursts of violence, and chockfull of surreal, yet somehow relatable characters comprised of a plethora of doubts, anxieties, and hidden darkness, Hades and Eden made it abundantly clear: Fox is … Continue reading Review: Fall by Candice Fox
Review: Hades by Candice Fox
HADES is a dark and brutal debut crime novel by Australian author Candice Fox, and the beginning of the Bennett/Archer series. It’s distinguished by its heroes and its villains, and the fine line that separates the two. Indeed, HADES is at its best when it explores the moral spectrum and how childhood impacts adulthood, and … Continue reading Review: Hades by Candice Fox