Gathering Dark
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4.4 • 8 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
The gripping new thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author.
Blair Harbour’s life as Hollywood’s top paediatric surgeon was perfect, until the night she was jailed for a murder she says she didn’t commit.
With ten years of freedom lost, her medical licence cancelled and her son being raised by foster parents, she’s ready to start again from scratch.
But when a former cellmate begs for help finding her missing daughter, Blair must risk it all to save a young life. Her only allies are a thief, a ganglord and the cop who put her away.
To do the right thing, Blair must mix with all the wrong people.
Will it put her new-found freedom on the line?
Praise for Candice Fox:
‘A writer to watch’ Harlan Coben
‘A bright new star’ James Patterson
‘One of the best crime thrillers of the year’ Lee Child
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Early in this superior crime novel from Ned Kelly Award–winner Fox (Hades), Blair Harbour chooses not to report the battered, distraught teenage girl who robbed the L.A. gas station where Blair works and stole her car. Recently paroled after a murder conviction, Blair feels sympathy for the poor kid. The next day, Blair's former cellmate, Sneak, shows up to beg for help in finding her missing daughter, who happens to be the young thief. Meanwhile, Det. Jessica Sanchez becomes a pariah in the LAPD after a grateful citizen bequeaths her a Brentwood mansion for outstanding performance. Blair and Sneak's quest brings them into the orbit of Ada Maverick, a stone-cold crime boss who's willing to help them in their search for her own reasons, just as Jessica begins to realize that there was something hinky about the case that sent Blair to prison. Vividly drawn characters and striking individual scenes, such as Jessica's visit to a dealer in murderabilia (killers' personal artifacts) or Blair watching M13 gangsters happily play with her pet gopher, help make this brutal but ultimately hopeful tale of desperate women a standout. It deserves a wide audience.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
Fox creates such fantastically complex female characters that you don’t want to say goodbye to them. Interesting, suspenseful and a great mystery. She is fast becoming my favourite author.