Candice Fox is the award-winning author of bestselling crime novels, most recently 2 Sisters Murder Investigations, her eighth collaboration with iconic crime and thriller author James Patterson, and the sequel to the bestselling 2 Sisters Detective Agency. Some of her other recent novels include High Wire, a high-octane outback thriller set in the wildlands of Australia and The Chase, an electrifying cat-and-mouse thriller set in the Nevada desert, which was the winner of the Best Crime Book in the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards.
Her novel Fire With Fire, a thriller about a couple who hold the LAPD to ransom in a desperate attempt to find their missing daughter, is being adapted into a TV series which is being developed by NBC, Universal and Lionsgate. This is her second novel to be adapted for TV, her first being the edgy suspense novel trilogy Crimson Lake, now a hit TV series called Troppo.
With James Patterson, she is also the author of Gathering Dark, The Inn, Hush Hush, Liar Liar, Fifty Fifty, Never Never and Black & Blue. Described as “a brutal, action-packed and really hard-edged novel about a crime set in a FIFO mine in the outback,” Never Never hit number 1 in the New York Times bestseller list and around the world.
Candice's novel Hades won the prestigious Ned Kelly Award in 2014. Its sequel, Eden, was published in January 2015 and also won the Ned Kelly Award in 2015. Book three in the series, Fall, was released in late 2015. Hades and Eden are international bestsellers – already translated into four languages.
Candice has two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Her Honours degree is in Creative Writing, and she holds a Masters in Writing, Editing and Publishing. She is passionate about the genre of crime writing. Growing up in a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs, she is the daughter of a parole officer at one of Sydney’s biggest prisons and an enthusiastic foster-carer.
She 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 and trouble-making 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. She started raiding her mother’s true crime collection as a young girl and quickly became addicted to the dark side. 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 20, she turned her hand to academia and now teaches creative writing.
