Two high school teachers—Amber Dorris and Leticia Laye—become obsessed with a true-crime podcast about the 1999 murder of 12-year-old Sarah Gerlach. Amber’s marriage to her real estate agent husband Gary is on the rocks. As a distraction, she and Letitia become increasingly absorbed by the case against local Blake Wernerhet. Blake was convicted of murdering Sarah, who was the little sister of a friend of his. While he maintains his innocence, everything points to this man being a vicious killer of an innocent girl. As Amber’s personal life crumbles, she begins communicating with Blake in prison, drawn in by a connection she can't quite explain. Convinced of his innocence, Amber and Leticia hatch an elaborate plan to help Blake escape during his final appeal hearing. But is Blake a good man wrongly accused, or has Amber placed all her faith in a charismatic monster? About the Creator Candice Fox is the author of 11 internationally bestselling crime novels and the winner of three prestigious Ned Kelly Awards. She has also cowritten nine New York Times bestsellers with James Patterson, the world’s bestselling thriller writer. In 2022, Candice’s fourth book, Crimson Lake, was adapted into the major ABC TV and Amazon Freevee series Troppo. Candice is the author of the Audible Original HUNTING GAME. A meticulous researcher, Candice has interviewed a serial killer on death row, been to prison three times (for work purposes), and—while on honeymoon in the US—took a road trip to famous crime scenes looking for clues. She has also dined with a former president of the United States, filmed a cameo role in her latest screen adaptation, and, as an animal rescue volunteer, has rescued countless wild animals. The complete list of narrators Uzo Aduba, Chrissy Metz, Jessica Almasy, Dan Bittner, Nile Bullock, Bailey Carr, Chris Ciulla, Merissa Czyz, Janina Edwards, L.J. Ganser, Piper Goodeve, Allison Hiroto, Josh Hurley, JD Jackson, Chris Kipiniak, Eddy Lee, Ryan Jordan McCarthy, Soneela Nankani, Ana Osorio, Dina Pearlman, Therese Plummer, Kim Ramirez, Aida Reluzco, Rebeca Robles, Mark Sanderlin, Shayna Small, Nick Sullivan, Amanda Turen, Gabriel Vaughan, Landon Woodson, and Ryan Jordan McCarthy. Available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.
Author
Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney's western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice 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. 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 twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism. Hades is her first novel, and she is currently working on its sequel.
