Detective Harriet Blue is clear about two things. Regan Banks deserves to die. And she’ll be the one to pull the trigger.

But Regan – the vicious serial killer responsible for destroying her brother’s life – has gone to ground.

Suddenly, her phone rings. It’s him. Regan.

‘Catch me if you can,’ he tells her.

Harriet needs to find this killing machine fast, even if the cost is her own life. So she follows him down the Australian south coast with only one thing on her mind.

Revenge is coming – and its name is Harriet Blue …

My Review

This is book three in the series and if I had to choose my favourite, this might just be the one. I’ve loved them all but Liar Liar is more focused on finding the serial killer without going off on a tangent to the ‘never never’.

Harriet Blue is on the run now. After her brother Sam was murdered in prison, she is determined to find Regan Banks and kill him. She’s gone rogue and she’s not bringing him in. She’s going to shoot him even if it means she ends up in prison.

Edward ‘Whit’ Whitaker has permanently transferred from Perth to Sydney so he can help Harriet prove Sam’s innocence and find Banks. His eccentric partner Tox Barnes is still in hospital, so Whit has a new partner. I wasn’t sure about her as she persuaded Whit to have a few drinks even though he had told her he was a recovering alcoholic. Seemed very unprofessional. She also seduces him – I actually assumed he was gay as in book one the miners called him ‘nancy boy’.

After Regan is shot he seeks medical attention from a cosmetic surgeon. She has her 11-year-old daughter with her at the surgery. You know what’s going to happen. Her sister’s comments at the press conference were so brilliant – one of the highlights of the book.

But I’m also still reeling from the revelation about Regan’s childhood file and why it was sealed. I kind of guessed the truth, but not how or why. It’s going to stay with me for a long time.

Same narrator – she’s perfect. Excited that there’s a book 4 Hush Hush in the series. Can’t wait.

About the Authors

Candice Fox is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs composed of half-adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of a parole officer and an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil as her father relayed his work stories to her mother and older brothers.

As a cynical and trouble-making teenager, her crime and gothic fiction writing was an escape from the calamity of her home life. She was constantly in trouble for reading Anne Rice in church and scaring her friends with tales from Australia’s wealth of true crime writers.

Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. Candice lectures in writing at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, while undertaking a PhD in literary censorship and terrorism.

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.