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Fox, Candice

Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives. She herself says that she had a happy childhood and youth, albeit in a somewhat odd family: her father worked as a prison guard, while his wife took care of children from families with social problems. So Candice Fox grew up with a row of different adoptive and foster siblings...

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Max Van Larsen

Gender: Male

A depressed, middle-aged detective with a guilty conscience who works in the New York police section for missing persons. Max Van Larsen’s wife and 13-year-old son have died in a traffic accident, and he discovers that he has not known them well enough to be able to mourn them. He is, however, consoled when he meets the cheerful author Sylvia Plotkin, and together they solve the weird cases in t...

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