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2000s: A missing girl, a fraught detective, the croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake…
Crimson Lake
What you need to know before your trail
12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop
12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her
12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life.
Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.
Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy no.1. She’s a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness but it’s her past that makes her the right kind of person to find others. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own – so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey.
Travel Guide
Cairns – QLD
Crimson Lake
“It wasn’t that I’d chosen CrimsonLake as my hideaway by throwing a dark at a map. I’d simply headed north from Sydney with my belongings in the car and panic at the back of my throat, certain only that I couldn’t stay where I was…..”
“When I got to Crimson Lake, not only were people disnterested in ‘ city news’ but I seemed to have found a region stolen from the hands of time, a slice of bar-bones civilization only just managing to fight back the rainforest trying to swallow it whole. Moss and vines grey on every surface they could manage. Along the river,broken-down houses with yawning doorways squatted in the bush, peering out, not a brick of patch of wood that composed them showing through their cloak of lush leaves. This was a town where the bad things about a person’s life might be eaten up.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Crimson Lake
Author/Guide: Candice Fox Destination: Cairns Departure Time: 2000s
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