Hades (25 page)

Candice Fox
is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo-siblings. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers.

As a cynical, troublemaking teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia’s wealth of true crime writers.

Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.

Hades
is her first novel, and she is currently working on its sequel,
Eden
.

Don’t miss Candice Fox’s next searing thriller

Coming from Kensington in 2016.

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Copyright © 2014 Candice Fox

 

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Previously published in Australia and New Zealand by Random House Australia Pty Ltd.

 

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

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ISBN: 978-1-6177-3441-0

 

 

First electronic edition: February 2015

 

ISBN-13: 978-1-61773-442-7
ISBN-10: 1-61773-442-X