Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His children’s book – Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and adapted into a musical which premiered in San Francisco. 
 
 
The Waiter (Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month), was published in 2021, and is the first in his critically-acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has moved to Brick Lane in London. It is being adapted for television by Moonage Pictures.The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the Year) was published in May 2022 to excellent reviews and deals with the issue of homelessness. The third book in the series – The Detective (Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the Year) – is about government surveillance and AI. The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing), the fourth book, sees Kamil infiltrate a terrorist cell. The Shadow (A Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month) is the latest book in the series.

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Candice Fox

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From the Sunday Times #1 bestselling author 
 
'Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place — this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!' LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series 
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When former detective Ted Conkaffey is wrongly accused of abducting a teenage girl, he hopes the Queensland town of Crimson Lake will be the perfect place to disappear. 
 
But nowhere is safe from the girl’s devastated father. Dale Bingley plans to take brutal revenge – and if Ted can't find the real abductor, he’ll be the first casualty. 
 
Meanwhile, on the beer-soaked floor of a nearby roadside shack, two young bartenders lie dead. As the homicide investigation unravels, Ted and his unlikely ally private detective Amanda Pharrell are brought in to assist on the case. 
 
While Ted fights to clear his own name, their hunt for the killer draws them into a violent dance with evil. 
 
They have one shot at redemption. It just might cost them their lives… 
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Steeped in tension, REDEMPTION is an absorbing crime thriller from an award-winning writer which will hold you in its grip to the final page. 
 
'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox!' - Lee Child

Redemption

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'Perfectly paced, super addictive action/thriller/mystery filled with highly original, ridiculously likeable characters. ... Pretty much perfect in every way imaginable' – BOOKTOPIA 
 
'Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!' – LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series 
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They left four children safe upstairs. 
They came back to three. 
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On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young boys are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. 
 
But when one of the parents checks on the children at midnight, they discover one of them is missing. 
 
The boys swear they stayed in their room. CCTV confirms that none of them left the building. No trace of the child is found. 
 
Now the hunt is on to find him, before it’s too late – and before the search for a boy becomes a search for a body... 
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'Fresh, lively writing that's not afraid to deliver shocks' – SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB 
 
'It's hard to put it down, and I was genuinely flummoxed... until the very end. Highly recommended.' – THE BOOKBAG

Gone by Midnight

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Never Never comes an ingenious and edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very last page . . . 
 
12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 
 
 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 
 
 12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes - that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. 
 
Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. 
 
Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy no.1. Maybe it’s her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own - so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey. 
 
But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair’s every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide . . .

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