I enjoyed this book much more than the first one in the series. Getting to know Ted and Amanda better was good. I really like Amanda, she made me smile. Both the books in this series are quite difficult reads at times, about sensitive issues.

I enjoyed the first book in the series, Crimson Lake , when I read it last year and was pleased when I was contacted by the publisher who sent a copy of Redemption Point .

Redemption Point is set some months after the events of the first book. Ted is still trying to rebuild his life following his imprisonment for a crime he did not commit - the abduction and rape of 13 year old Claire Bingley - but when Claire's father turns up on his door and beats him bloody, he decides that he really does need to find out who the real culprit is if he is to have any hope of rebuilding his life properly. He is pulled into another murder investigation along with his partner, Amanda, when two young people are found shot at their place of work and the father of one of the victims calls them, not completely trusting the police.

There are four POVs in Redemption Point. First is Ted who has to juggle the demands of investigating this new crime while dealing with a whole lot of issues from his previous life - trying to forge a relationship with his young daughter, communicating with his ex-wife, dealing with a TV interview (and a new accusation against him!) and trying to work out who actually abducted Claire. Ted spends a lot of time down in Sydney in this book. Then we have Amanda who is back in Crimson Lake, investigating and working alongside DI Pip Sweeney. The newly promoted Pip is working her first murder and struggles at times. She also has an interesting background which we discover. The last POV is presented in diary entries written by a paedophile and I found them to be quite interesting even if they did turn my stomach at times.

I hope there's another book coming at some point in the future because I'd really like to read more about these characters.

Redemption Point is a stunning sequel to Crimson Lake. Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell are the lead characters in both books. Both are complex, interesting and compelling characters. Amanda in particular, is a wonderful creation with her rhyming at inappropriate times, and her tough quirkiness. The chapter where Ted is allowed supervised time with his baby daughter after a long absence was beautifully written, and moved me to tears. Read both books, you will love them.

What a great follow on from Crimson Lake. Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell back on another case together with Ted still trying to clear his name from the allegations of the rape and murder of a young girl which was the background of Crimson Lake. It is important that Crimson Lake be read first to get the grittyness of the characters. I was totally drawn to both Ted and Amanda as colleagues through their detective work and the characters are really likeable.
Bringing the murdered girl's father into the mix was really clever. It was both thrilling and exhilarating. It was hard to put this book down once I had started. Well done Candice for a brilliant sequel. It left no stone unturned.

Redemption Point is the second book in the Crimson Lake series. Once again, Candice Fox has written an exciting, fast-paced thriller. I could not put this book down! As always, the cast of characters is interesting and well developed. I especially enjoy Amanda Pharrell’s refreshing forthrightness and her novel take on the world, unsullied by conventional social constraints. I recommend this book highly and hope that there will be a third Crimson Lake book. Thanks to Random House UK Cornerstone and NetGalley for the ARC.

This is second in the Crimson Lake series but Candice Fox expertly provides a stand alone novel as well as the continuing story of Ted Conkaffey. With Amanda Pharrell they take on a gruesome murder in the Barking Frog pub providing the main storyline however it is meshed with the continuing story of Ted's predicament of how to prove his innocence of the child abduction crime he was accused of. The pub murder is giving up few clues but Amanda's unique perspective starts to unravel this very clever mystery. Although a very ugly crime the author adds some light humour to ease the horror of the investigation but still retaining all the thrills and excitement of a good crime thriller. Ted is reluctantly drawn into into investigating his own case following an incident with the victim's father who is looking for answers and justice for his daughter. This is a first rate crime thriller which keeps you captivated until the end. Hopefully the series will continue.

I really enjoyed the first book in this series, but this one knocked it out of the water,I gave the other book 5 stars and if I could I would give this one 6 stars.I just love the main characters, Amanda is so funny she is really growing on me I love her, and she is so intuitive I love that about her as well, and of course Ted is a great character.I really enjoyed the police officer as well and her developing friendship with Amanda, they were some great moments, and I felt really sad when this book ended.I do hope there will be more in the series the characters are far too good to leave .You do have to keep your wits about you when reading as the pace is relentless and the action jumps about from one character to another, but I really liked this style of writing there was never a dull moment.it was a cracker.great story really good characters and I think my favourite book of the year so far, I really recommend it.Thanks to netgalley and the Publishers for an ARC.

This is a sequel to Crimson Lake; a book I gave 4 stars; this one also gets 4 stars. I really recommend you read Crimson Lake before reading this otherwise you will not get the really important background to the 2 main characters, Ted and Amanda and, I feel, that is essential to get everything out of this story and an understanding of these 2 very different and intriguing characters.

The story has 2 main facets. The first being the murder of two young people and the second of Ted's attempts to clear his name of the violent attack on a young girl. Both parts fit together really well as does the unlikely partnership of Ted and Amanda and the relationship between Ted and his geese!

Well written; funny and sad with a story that will make you shout at it at times and laugh out loud at others, Redemption Point and its predecessor are books I'm glad I didn't miss out on and I would highly recommend.

Thanks go to Ellie Gibbons, Marketing Manager at Cornerstone - Penguin Random House UK and the author, Candice Fox for my copy in return for an honest review.

I loved this book, all the main characters were so easy to like, and I just didn't want the book to end. Gripping and a real page turner.

This sequel to Crimson Lake is an excellent second book, probably even better than the first. Amanda is a delightful quirky partner, I'd live to meet her!
The injustices from the first book continue (you really must read Crimson Lake first), and the descriptions of Far Northern Queensland bring the place alive, with its humidity and mangrove swamps.
Absolutely first class, I sincerely hope there's a third book on the way.

I really enjoyed this this sequel to Crimson Lake, and as per the last book, this was another great, quirky, crime thriller. I would strongly recommend reading Crimson Lake first, but am sure you could read this as a stand alone novel (but you wouldn’t be able to resist reading it if you did read this first!) As a fan of authors like John Hart, Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben, I would place this author in the same category/genre.. The two main protagonists Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell are fantastically interesting with bizarre - yet fully believable - back stories and we are also introduced to another main character this time - Pip Sweeney - with her own intriguing history. This second book answers some unsolved questions from the first and I really hope there’ll be another. I have also read one of this author’s earlier works and hope to delve further into her back catalogue. It’s also interesting to read a book set in Australia (rather than the US, or UK, where most of the successful authors seem to set their work. I urge you to try this author!

Great characters and strong story. Full of differing emotions and you almost live it with Ted. Sad twist at the end but full of new strength.

Redemption Point is a sequel to Crimson Lake. Whilst Crimson Lake was a story complete in itself, the ending strongly suggested that there would be another book. Now here we are again with ex-copper Ted Conkaffey, still holed up near Cairns, hiding out in the heat of Northern Australia with most people convinced that he raped and nearly murdered a young girl. When the story starts he's been tracked down by the girl's father who beats him half to death. Ted manages to convince him that there might be some evidence that he was not guilty and ex-police detective and grieving father forge an unlikely alliance in their attempts to find the real villain.
Meanwhile, his partner in the local detective business (how does such a small town support two detectives?) has been commissioned to find the killer of a local boy shot in a bar as he closed up for the night. Amanda Pharrell remains the enigmatic half child-half woman of the first book and her damaged charm accounts for a lot of this book's appeal.
The two unlikely crime fighters are joined by a minor character from the first book, Philippa Sweeney, who owes her rapid promotion from beat police officer to Detective Inspector in part to Ted and Amanda's previous venture. Sweeney is thus happy to have the two private investigators alongside as they struggle to solve this apparently random and motiveless murder.
Ted has been accused of a terrible crime that he did not commit; Amanda has served prison time for a murder which she definitely did commit, even if there were extenuating circumstances; and Pippa carries the guilt of standing by and watching her father die while quite deliberately doing nothing to save him. All three are deeply damaged people, but we are sympathetic not only to Ted (who really has done nothing wrong) but to the other two who have, at least, been over-intimately involved in the deaths of others. Even Dale Bingley, the raped girl’s father, although much less fully realised than the other characters, has been turned into, in many ways, a terrible person because of his exposure to a crime that he was just psychologically unable to cope with.
A fifth key character is Kevin, the man who really did rape Claire, who we see through the pages of his diary. He is, it should go without saying, an awful, awful man. But even in Kevin we see some glimpses of humanity. He knows what he is doing is wrong and at one level really wants to stop himself, but he is too sick and too weak not to give way to his urges. Watching him justifying himself is, to put it mildly, disturbing, but this is powerful writing that pulls the book well clear of your average detective thriller.
With all these fascinating characters, it would be easy for Candice Fox to skimp on the mechanics of the mystery story. Instead, though, the detective side of this story is as solid as the characterisation. It's hardly a police procedural, but the killing at Crimson Lake has a satisfying crop of clues and red herrings.
The investigation of Clare's rape has rather more in common with the way these things are usually looked at, Ted and Dale spending hours checking car registrations against lists of known sex offenders. The breakthrough, when it comes, relies on an unlikely plot twist, but by then we’re so invested in the characters that we don't care.
Redemption Point is a solid piece of crime fiction that is every bit as good as Crimson Lake. Whether the series can sustain a third book is, to my mind, doubtful, but on the strength of the first two I'll certainly be willing to give a third novel a go.
A slightly different version of this review (including more discussion of Crimson Lake) appeared on my blog on 27 Feb (http://tomwilliamsauthor.co.uk/two-books-candice-fox/)

This is the second book featuring Ted and Amanda, two private investigators who have become colleagues and friends because of events in their past. In Ted's case he has been accused of a crime he didn't commit, whereas Amanda did commit a crime (but you feel there's more to her story that's still to unravel). As characters they're both easy to like, Ted because he is so normal yet has found himself in an impossible situation that he's still trying to come to terms with in his own way and Amanda because she's quirky, cheeky, and at times very impulsive!
Candice Fox has very skillfully continued to progress the story of Ted's wrongful imprisonment whilst introducing another crime in their neighbourhood which the pair of them are tasked with solving. The crime in their neighbourhood does get solved, with tragic consequences, and the real perpetratator of Ted's supposed crime is found and dealt with. Although one of the story lines starts and ends in the book I can;t help but feel that there may be more to come with the other!
I found the book engrossing and am pleased to say I was kept guessing right to the end and didn't anticipate what was going to happen. Would I recommend it? Yes! Would I like to read the next in the series? (Hopefully there will be more) The answer again is Yes!

although this is a second book in a series this could be read as a stand alone.

Every bit as enjoyable as the first book, story was well thought out and the characters are just as interesting.

Although it seems like this maybe the end of the story for Ted it seems like it maybe a good start for hearing more of Amanda's story.

I loved it and will definitely be on the look out for more in the series.

Anyone who was fortunate enough to read Crimson Lake may have been hoping for a sequel. Well, Redemption Point is it and it doesn’t disappoint. Like Crimson Lake, we are faced with a number of story threads, some new and some continuing. Ex cop Ted Conkaffey still carries the weight of having been falsely accused of the abduction, rape and attempted murder of a minor. Often the recipient of beatings and abuse he lives with the hope that one day he will find the true offender and go back to the life he once had. In the meantime he lives with some geese who have adopted him and works as a PI with a business partner called Amanda who has her own demons to face down. Her character is really developed in Redemption Point when she is asked to assist in finding the culprit behind the grisly murder of two young people in a bar. She becomes entwined with Sweeney the detective investigating the murder as they come to the realisation they share uncomfortable pasts. Amanda has a sparkling wit and a mildly aspergic view on life. Throughout the gripping novel, Ted begins to realise his former life cannot be recreated even if he can bring to justice the perpetrator of the crimes of which he was falsely accused. I found this book very hard to put down, it had great pace and depth. I would recommend however that a prospective reader starts with Crimson Lake, having that inner satisfaction that they can continue seamlessly with Redemption Point.

An exceptional thriller from a great new talent:
What makes a exceptional thriller for me is an original plot and great characters. "Redemption Point" by Candice Fox delivers on both counts.
This is the second novel by Candice Fox in the Crimson Lake series. In "Crimson Lake" readers were introduced to two unique characters: Amanda and Ted, who join forces as Private Investigators in Crimson Lake: a small Outback town. It is the unfairly accused background of these two characters which defines their relationship in this new novel as it did its predecessor. (This novel can be read as a standalone novel as Fox provides more than enough of a recap of how both Amanda and Ted got to where they are now.)
Amanda Pharrell served ten years in prison for murder, a verdict which was misguided and contributed to her personality disorders. Amanda is bipolar, and a natural sleuth, possessing observational traits which Sherlock Holmes would have envied.
Her partner, Ted Conkaffey is one of lives unfortunates. He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and stands accused of the abduction and rape of a minor, a paedophile. His trial is on hold whilst the prosecutors search for more evidence to guarantee his conviction. As a policeman up until his arrest and charging, the label of "paedophile" has ripped his life apart overnight.
Amanda is a truly colourful character: in both personality and body. The tattoos which adorn most of her body symbolise in a sense her inner turmoil. Ted's body is equally colourful: sporting the latest injuries from his most recent "Paedo" bashing.
"Redemption Point" includes extracts from a Diary, maintained by the perpetrator of Ted's crime, in which the rapist reveals the full details of his guilt and how he managed to avoid discovery and continues to do so. The diary is an excellent addition to the novel as it complements the plot and explains many of the factors overlooked by the investigating authorities. Ted has many online sympathisers with his plight, thanks to a journalist who believes in his innocence. The journalist started an online website whose supporters, ironically include the actual culprit. But will justice prevail or is Ted set to continue with a cloud hanging over his head?
Meanwhile in a parallel plot, Ted and Amanda are delegated the task of solving a double murder in a local Crimson Lake pub. Amanda places herself in danger as she strives to resolve the apparently motiveless crime.
Candice Fox places her characters within a first rate plot and develops the relationships between the main characters which include Ted's wife and child, and the newly appointed Chief Inspector in charge of the dual murder case. The author manages to keep the reader on edge until the final page.
Candice Fox is an exciting new talent in the world of Crime Thrillers and "Redemption Point" delivers by fully engaging the reader throughout the novel. A great read. I hope we see the return of this colourful duo.

I read the first novel in this series and really enjoyed it, however, I didn't like this one as much. There's a good story line and well thought out characters and it brings the story that started in Book 1 to a conclusion. (I think some of the problems I had with the book were to do with the poor formatting which is due to this being an ARC. If you read the first book then definitely give this one a chance.

Five stars isn’t enough to say how good I think this book is. I loved Crimson Lake and was almost afraid to read the next Candace Fox book in the series in case it failed to live up to its predecessor. Well I needn’t have worried as it was superb.
Ted and Amanda are the most unlikely pair of private detectives you could ever imagine but it just works so well. I do hope there are more books to come with at least some of these finely drawn characters because the author had hit on a fine seam of interest.
I do also just have to comment , without giving any storyline away I hope, on the scene where Ted goes to see Lillian. It was one of the most exquisitely written parts of a story I have read. It wrenched my heart and I defy anyone not to feel sympathy for Ted by the 3nd of it.
Well done Ms Fox.

A second outing for Ted and Amanda in the Crimson Lake series. This is an excellent mixture of great characters and good solid storytelling.
There are two main threads, Ted's attempt to clear his name and a double murder to solve, but also many little side stories and past happenings. The characters are many and varied, interesting and quirky. And I love the geese!
A great book. Highly recommended