Another great story by Candice Fox and the Crimson Lake series. Lots of action and intuitive decisions with Amanda in the spotlight as usual, I like Amanda. Lots of twist and turns and some really good characters. Great conclusion and hopefully more to come.

Interesting novel set in Cairns, Australia. This is the third set in Cairns and a stand alone story, The story has echoes of Madeleine McCann as it involves 4 young boys locked into a hotel room one night whilst the parents dined and carried out hourly checks. It is on the return of one parent to the locked room, that she discovered her son missing. Interwoven into this mystery are the stories of the characters, Ted Koncaffey, a former police office whowas once charged with child kidnapping. His sidekick, Amanda who nobody likes as she is very extrovert. Joanna, a police officer who hates Amanda with a deadly vengeance and Superfish, Joanna's police partner who is caught up with Joanna's vengeance. Good characters and believable.
The plot is good and gripping. I enoyed it and look forward to reading Candice's other novels.
#GoneByMidnight #NetGalley

'Gone By Midnight' is the third in the 'Crimson Lake' series by Candice Fox , and it is 100% a 5 star read that needs to be added to your January 2019 shelf.
The story is ostensibly about 4 couples, each with a single male child, who have met up so that their children can play together as they have no siblings to offload their excess energy onto.
As they get to know each better, a trip is proposed and a hotel stay decided upon. At the evening meal, all adults are in the hotel dining room with a pre-arranged schedule to check on the 4 locked in children on the hour until the evening is finished.
The last time they are checked on, a piercing scream, rings out and wakes the entire complex-Richie Farrow, 8 years old, is missing.
How could a child escape a room that was locked from the outside and how did none of the other children notice that he had gone?
Sara Farrow is a single mother with secrets.
Henry Farrow, her ex-husband with issues about their custody arrangement.
Dylan Horgan, the maintenance man who 'needs this job' has even more.
There is a 'known to the police' paedophile close enough to the hotel without an alibi.
And Ted Conkaffey and private investigator Amanda Pharrell are caught right in the thick of it.
They need to find the boy before it turns into a hunt for a body and race against time as the journalists are circling like the crocs that live in the vicinity of Crimson Lake and someone is about to get hurt...
By turns shocking, tragic, beautiful and ugly, all of the characters that Candice Fox creates are multifaceted and believable.
I am so grateful to Netgalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this in return for an honest review.

This was quite a good book. The plot line was great and the characters were good but there were a few things that I just didn’t get. Things like Superfish Claiming he has been telling Joanna for months that she should let her vendetta go, but if that’s the case wouldn’t he just report it to someone? A good read but a little too long for me.

After initial problem with ARC provided delighted to say that I was sent a revised copy in order to provide an inpartial review. Special thanks to Elle Gibbons @ Penguin Random House.
Pleased to say that it was worth the wait. Having read the previous two books in this series I was looking forward to the third installment featuring Ted & Amanda.
In keeping with the series so far, there are two main thrusts to the story, Ted's past and his continued battle against falsely having been accussed of a crime he didn't commit and the ongoing investigation into a current event.
Have nothing but praise for this publication and no hesitation in recommending.
Here's to the fourth installment.

I loved this damn book it’s just a perfect pleasure to read !!!
It is the third book in the Crimson Lake series and it is an absolutely magnificent novel and so much more than just a mystery thriller plus the series just get’s better and better. The two main characters are so brilliantly written as we gain more insight into their lives and in my opinion this is what makes the book stand out from other mystery thriller’s. I just adore Amanda (“don’t touch me”) and many times I have laughed aloud as she yet again says and does exactly what she thinks with Ted usually groaning in the background-
with his head in his hands !! The plot of the book is excellent as usual and I cannot wait for the next instalment, I lived and breathed the book and I miss Ted and Amanda already so please don’t leave it to long Candice Fox I need the next one.
My thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

First book I’ve read by this author but I’m now desperate to get my hands on all the rest and particularly to catch up with the others in this series. In Ted and Amanda, Candice Fox has created two intriguingly unique characters who work incredibly well together. I found the book well-plotted and written, and it kept me guessing till the end. Great read!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I could almost feel the humidity and hear the insects from the way this book is written! A brilliant mystery with quirky characters. Highly recommended #NetGalley#GoneByMidnight

I thoroughly enjoyed this book – so much so that I read it in a single day. The two main characters, Ted and Amanda, are fascinating people: both flawed yet likeable. Although the core of the book is a whodunnit (and one that keeps you guessing, at that) I think it's the characters that really make the book stand out compared to other crime novels I've read. I won't say too much about the twists and turns for fear of spoilers, but I will say that at one point near the end I genuinely cheered out loud. Very much recommended.

Note: I haven't read the first in the series but I have read the second, Redemption Point; however, this can be read as a standalone novel and indeed I think it works better as a standalone than Redemption Point.

Gone by Midnight is the third in the Crimson Lake series ,I have read the other two books and loved them but this book is absolutely fabulous .Ted and Amanda are a brilliant team of Private Investigators each dealing with the past and working with the Police to solve the mystery of a young boy who seemingly has disappeared from a room in an hotel .The story is set in Cairns in Australia which is crocodile country making the story even more scary and atmospheric .The plot is so clever I didn't guess the ending ,the reader is drawn in hoping against hope that the child will be found alive .Very cleverly written and a great ending .I can't wait for the next book in the series .Many thanks to the Publisher ,the Author and NetGalley for my review copy in return for an honest review .

Like many other reviewers, I struggled with the initially mixed up and higgledy-piggeldy format of this book, however I was so captivated by the story that I persevered because I couldn't wait to find out the ending. I'm thrilled that it's been re-formatted and will very likely give it another read to get the full flow.

I hadn't read any of Candice Fox's work before, but will be exploring the previous novels in the series, and beyond.

It did keep me guessing, and I was taken with the quirky characters and vivid descriptions both of physical details, emotional and personality traits and back stories.

In all, a great read.

This was a brilliant, well written, gripping book. I loved the characters and all the intertwining strands of their lives, which were so well told. The story was set in rural Australia, which was also very different and added to the atmosphere- crocodiles and dingoes aren’t something that usually crop up as a problem when searching for bodies!
I am now looking forward to reading the rest of Candice Fox’s books, I love it when I find a new author (to me) and can’t wait to start reading the rest of her work. I don’t often wax so lyrically over books, but I shall be telling all my friends about this one.

The book was difficult to read as I read a copy not ready for publication, with paragraphs from two pages ahead appearing, then reappearing 2 pages later. This was very confusing, but I liked what I was reading so much that I struggled on, and got used to adapted to this strange format. I’m so glad I did - I thoroughly recommend this book

Ditto, the ARC is so disrupted it's impossible to read :(( I've marked it as a provisional 3-stars..........................

I am a few pages in but simply cannot read it because of the jumping about of paragraphs. Please try and sort this and offer it again.

I was really looking forward to reading this but it's unreadable as all the paragraphs are jumbled up and repeated!
Hopefully it can be sorted so I can read it soon.

See notes to editors regard jumbled paragraphs which makes it impossible to read. Book seems fine but not able to read as yet.

I couldn't read the book as the pages didn't flow sequentially. Kindly check the uploaded book as the paragraphs kept repeating so I had to keep turning pages to understand what was happening.