TY - BOOK AU - Fox,Candice TI - Gone by midnight T2 - [Crimson Lake SN - 9780143789154 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - North Sydney, NSW PB - Penguin Random House KW - Conkaffey, Ted, KW - Pharrell, Amanda, KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Crime & mystery fiction KW - thema KW - Novel KW - English KW - Australia KW - 21st century KW - Texts KW - Missing children KW - Investigation KW - Fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - fast KW - Private investigators KW - Australian fiction KW - Queensland KW - Australian KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Crime-Australia KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - Thrillers (fiction) KW - Novels KW - lcsh N1 - "A Bantam book" -- Title page verso; Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections materials are available for use in the Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room by appointment. Access terms for some items may be restricted due to their rarity, value or physical condition N2 - Crimson Lake is where bad people come to disappear - and where eight-year-old boys vanish into thin air . . . On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. The boys swear they stayed in their room, and CCTV confirms Richie has not left the building. Despite a thorough search, no trace of the child is found. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators: disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. This case just the sort of twisted puzzle that gets Amanda's blood pumping. For Ted, the case couldn't have come at a worse time. Two years ago a false accusation robbed him of his career, his reputation and most importantly his family. But now Lillian, the daughter he barely knows, is coming to stay in his ramshackle cottage by the lake. Ted must dredge up the area's worst characters to find a missing boy. And the kind of danger he uncovers could well put his own child in deadly peril . . ER -