Candice Fox (born 1985) is an Australian novelist, best known for her

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. She has collaborated with

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on several novels.

Early life and education

Candice Fox was born in 1985 the western suburbs of

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into a large family. She spent a brief period in the

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before studying and teaching at university level.

Career

Fox has written many novels, mainly crime fiction. In 2015, Fox started collaborating on a series of novels with bestselling author

Bibliography

Novels

* ''The Inn'' (2019) (collaboration with

) * ''2 Sisters Detective Agency'' (2021) (collaboration with James Patterson) * ''Gathering Dark'' (2020) * '' The Chase'' (2021) * ''Fire With Fire'' (2023) * ''Devil's Kitchen'' (2024) * High Wire (2024)

Archer and Bennett

* ''Hades'' (2014) * '' Eden'' (2014) * ''Fall'' (2015)

Detective Harriet Blue

* ''Never Never'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2016) * ''Fifty Fifty'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2017) * ''Liar Liar'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2018) * ''Hush Hush'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2019)

Crimson Lake

* ''Crimson Lake'' (2017) * ''Redemption Point'' (2018) * ''Gone By Midnight'' (2019)

Novellas

* ''Black and Blue'' (collaboration with James Patterson) (2016)

Adaptations

''Troppo'' (2022), an ABC TV/

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adaptation of ''Crimson Lake'' starring

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and

Nicole Chamoun Nicole Chamoun (born 1 January 1984) is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Zahra in the 2018 SBS miniseries '' Safe Harbour'', and for playing a lead role as Amanda Pharrell in the 2022 ABC crime drama series '' Troppo''. Early ...

premiered on 27 February in Australia and on 20 May 2022 in the United States. In March 2022 ''Gathering Dark'' was optioned for adaptation by Renegade Entertainment.

Awards

* 2014:

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including d ...

for Best First Novel, for ''Hades'' * 2015: Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, for '' Eden'' * 2016 short-listed, Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, ''Fall'' * 2016 shortlisted

Davitt Award The Davitt Awards are literary awards which are presented annually by the Sisters in Crime Australia association. The awards are named in honour of Ellen Davitt (1812–1879) who wrote Australia's first mystery novel, ''Force and Fraud'' in 186 ...

Best Adult Crime Novel, ''Fall' * 2017 shortlisted Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, ''Crimson Lake'' * 2018 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel, ''Crimson Lake'' * 2019 shortlisted Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, ''Redemption Point'' * 2019 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel, ''Redemption Point'' * 2020 shortlisted Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, ''Gathering Dark'' * 2020 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel, ''Gathering Dark'' * 2022: Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, for ''The Chase'' in 2022.

References

External links

Interview - "Author Candice Fox has a dark side" ''Australian Writers Centre''

Interview - "Meet Candice Fox, Author Of Hades" ''Backseat Clarity''

Official website
Living people 21st-century Australian novelists Australian women novelists Ned Kelly Award winners 21st-century Australian women writers Australian crime fiction writers 1985 births Writers from Sydney {{Australia-writer-stub