A murder mystery and a touch of history with Candice Fox
6/12/202643 min
When one of Australia's most well-known crime authors sat down to write her latest novel, she found an eerie link to her own family's past.
Find more about Candice Fox's latest book Redbelly Crossing at:
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/redbelly-crossing-9781761345548
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First 90 secondsAndrew Rule· Host0:00
[gentle music] We had a handyman doing stuff here- Mm-hmm ... for Parramatta Building, whatever it was. And guess who that was? And he says, "I don't know, mate." He said, "The Boston Strangler."
Candice Fox· Guest0:12
The box of evidence was found in the attic of one of the police officers who worked on the case. She's taken it home and accidentally put it in her attic, and it had the CCTV from the night he disappeared and all that sort of stuff in it.
Andrew Rule· Host0:28
I'm Andrew Rule, this is Life & Crimes. This week we have a guest. Very happy that she's arrived safely from Sydney and other places. Her name is Candice Fox. She's a prolific author, she tells me. She assures me she's written 21 books, or is it 22, in the last decade, or thereabouts. Uh- Yeah ... something like that.
Candice Fox· Guest0:52
Something like that, yeah.
Andrew Rule· Host0:53
The latest one undoubtedly is Red Belly Crossing, which I've read with great interest. I, I finished it in the wee hours the other night.
Candice Fox· Guest1:02
Good.
Andrew Rule· Host1:02
And I note b- it's got an excellent cover picture of a, a river, possibly in South America or somewhere- [laughs] ... with not a red-bellied black snake- No ... swimming across it, a very different sort of snake.
Candice Fox· Guest1:13
Yeah.
Andrew Rule· Host1:13
But it's a good image.
Candice Fox· Guest1:14
Thank you.
Andrew Rule· Host1:15
And a good title. Very eye-catching.
Candice Fox· Guest1:17
Thank you.
Andrew Rule· Host1:17
As is your byline, Candice.
Candice Fox· Guest1:19
Mm-hmm.
Andrew Rule· Host1:19
But you're not really here to flog your novel, even though you are.
Candice Fox· Guest1:23
Well, yeah.
Andrew Rule· Host1:24
The, m- our interest in you, Candice, is that this novel was inspired, in part-