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Crimson Lake: Crimson Lake (Book 1) Jane Austen And a few years laterSix minutes in the wrong place at the wrong timethats all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffeys life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction, Ted is now a free manand public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Teds lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer. Not