Hades / Candice Fox.
Series: Archer & Bennett. 1 Publication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2014.Description: 308 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780857981172
- A823.4 23
- Winner 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | FOX | Archer Bk.1 | Available | 055163 |
"What does it take to raise two perfect little killers"--Cover.
Hades Archer, the man they call the Lord of the Underworld, surrounds himself with the things others leave behind. Their trash becomes the twisted sculptures that line his junkyard. The bodies they want disposed of become his problem - for a fee. Then one night a man arrives on his doorstep, clutching a small bundle that he wants 'lost'. And Hades makes a decision that will change everything...Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett feels like the luckiest man on the force when he meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there's something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can't quite put his finger on. When the two detectives are called to the scene of an attempted drowning, they find a traumatised victim telling a story that's hard to believe - until the divers start bringing up bodies. Frank is now on the hunt for a very different kind of serial killer: one who offers the sick and dying hope at murderous cost. At first, his partner's sharp instincts come in handy. Soon, he's wondering if she's as dangerous as the man they hunt.
Winner 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.