Gathering Dark

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“Candice Fox has a remarkable talent for taking people who are unliked and damaged and turning them into very likeable heroes. She does this again in Gathering Dark. Blair was once a respected pediatric surgeon, but she spent 10 years in prison for killing a man–a killing she said was justified to prevent him from killing his girlfriend. Sneak was Blair’s best friend in prison and kept her safe–she is basically a good person but got hooked on opioids as a teen athlete and now is a kleptomaniac, drug addict and street person. Jessica is a police detective. She arrested and built the case against Blair. She is a Latino woman who mistakenly thought she was considered an equal by her fellow cops and is now being harassed and threatened by her co-workers. Throw in a vicious ganglord and you have a crazy, gritty, wild crime story with quirky characters who are all trying to find Sneak’s college age daughter, and hidden heist money, and not get themselves killed in the process.”

— Nancy • Fiction Addiction