The tie-in edition of Candice's Fox's bestselling novel Crimson Lake - now a major ABC TV series, Troppo, starring Thomas Jane. To hit screens early 2022.'One of the best crime thrillers of the year' LEE CHILD'A masterful novel' HARLAN COBEN'A bright new star' JAMES PATTERSONSix minutes - that's all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of abducting a teenage girl, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.Amanda Pharrell knows what it's like to be public enemy number one. 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 . . .