Hades secret stash serial#
The police have a serial killer on their hands that explain a number of their missing person cases.
Inside are the grisly remains of numerous bodies with evidence of surgical organ removal. A junkie managing to escape a watery grave leads the police to metal toolboxes dumped at sea. Frank, a man with his own dark past and secrets, refuses to be put off, he is desperate to know Eden's secrets, and ends up finding a list of names in Eden's wallet. Eric, her unnerving, edgy and slightly unhinged brother, is proving to be a menacing obstacle and Eden projects nothing but coldness. Frank wants to get closer to beautiful, powerful and dark Eden, but this proves to be difficult. Eric and Eden grow up to serve as homicide detectives.Įden has lost a partner, Frank Bennet is his incoming replacement on the Sydney Homicide Squad. Hades is a man with his own morality, he stipulates that their darkness should be aimed at evil, and never directed at innocents. His paternal love for Eden and Eric is all consuming, but as their damaged psyches cause mayhem, with Eric in particular proving to be difficult to rein in, he enrols them on Monarch University distance learning courses, under the radar, to educationally accommodate their darkness. Hades has every intention of having them killed, but instead finds himself nursing them through their injuries, and raising them as his own. The girl is injured, but the boy is close to death. One dark night a stranger visits, destined to never leave, bringing with him two young children, a brother and sister, the fallout from an abduction gone wrong. At the House of Hades, he rules the dead, with a home 'full of guests'. He owns and runs a tip in Utulla, a fixer for the criminal underbelly of Sydney, with a fearsome reputation for solving problems permanently. Hades, like the Greek god of mythology, is the Lord of the Underworld.
Hades secret stash series#
Hades is her first novel, and she is currently working on its sequel.Īntiheroes dominate this gripping thriller, the first in the Archer and Bennet series by Candice Fox, set in Sydney, Australia. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. 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.īankstown 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.
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.Īs a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo siblings.
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