Candleland

Drug dealers, AIDS, and prostituion are just a few of the things that reporter Stephen Larkin must cope with in his attempts to find a friend's missing daughter.

When a friend's HIV-positive sixteen-year-old goes missing, investigative reporter Stephen Larkin is enlisted to help find her. Following a trail of warring drug dealers, child prostituion, and born-again Christian gangsters, it soon becomes clear that they are not the only ones looking for the girl, and that others don't care if she is found dead or alive.


Genre: Mystery

"Martyn Waites's Candleland bears witness to the flowering of a new talent." - Maxim Jakubowski