Candice Fox

Candice Fox (* 1980 in Bankstown in Australia's New South Wales ) is an Australian writer of detective novels .

biography

Candice Fox spent a brief period in the Royal Australian Navy before studying and teaching at university. She gave courses in literature at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney .

In 2014 she published her first novel Hades , which won the Ned Kelly Award for best first novel . It is the first volume in a series about the two crime detectives Frank Bennett and Eden Archer in Sydney.

Since 2015, Candice Fox worked on a series of novels with the American detective writer James Patterson .

In 2017, she opened a new series, Crimson Lake , centered around Sidney cop Ted Conkaffey. The main character has been charged but not convicted of kidnapping and has retired north of the crocodile-filled swamps in Crimson Lake, Australia.

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Novels

Frank Bennett and Eden Archer

• Hades . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-46673-5 (Australian English: Hades . North Sydney 2014. Translated by Anke Caroline Burger ).
• Eden . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-46714-5 (Australian English: Eden . North Sydney 2014. Translated by Anke Caroline Burger).
• Case . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-46765-7 (Australian English: Fall . North Sydney 2015. Translated by Anke Caroline Burger).

Ted Conkaffey

• Crimson Lake . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-46810-4 (Australian English: Crimson Lake . North Sydney 2017. Translated by Andrea O'Brien ).
• Redemption Point . 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-46898-2 (Australian English: Redemption Point . North Sydney 2018. Translated by Andrea O'Brien ).
• Missing boy. 1st edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-518-47011-4 (Australian English: Gone by Midnight. North Sydney 2019. Translated by Andrea O'Brien )

Detective Harriet Blue

With James Patterson as co-writer:

• Never Never (2016)
• Fifty Fifty (2017)
• Liar Liar (2018)

Awards and recognitions

Prices

2014

Ned Kelly Award for Hades for Best First Novel

2015

Ned Kelly Award for Eden for Best Novel

Nominations

2015

Davitt Award for Hades as the best first novel

2016

Ned Kelly Award for Fall for Best Novel

Davitt Award for Fall for Best Novel

2017

Ned Kelly Award for Crimson Lake for Best Novel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} palmarès prix Ned Kelly
2. ↑ Shortlist for Sisters in Crime's 15th Davitt Awards announced
3. ^ A 'long shortlist' for Sisters in Crime's 16th Davitt Awards for best crime books

Web links

• Literature by and about Candice Fox in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website (in English)
• Meet Candice Fox, author of Hades (interview from February 13, 2014)
• Marcus Müntefering: "Killer instinct: How a young author stirs up the thriller genre" , interview and book review in Spiegel Online