Regular readers of my blog will know how much I love Candice Fox. I loved the crime fiction series I read of hers this year starting with Crimson Lake, then Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight. So I was excited to pick up Never Never at a recent book sale. It’s co-written by bestselling author James Patterson and Candice. It was also my first time reading a James Patterson novel.

Never Never introduces the character Detective Harriet Blue. She’s a boxing, swearing, tough Sydney cop who works in the sex crimes division. Or she did until her brother gets arrested for a string of brutal murders and her chief decides it’s best that she get out of town so she won’t hamper the investigation. So he sends her to a uranium mine in the West Australian desert where there has been a string of disappearances of young mine workers. Continue reading →