Candyland

About “Candyland”

Candyland is a novel that follows Benjamin Thorpe, a married Los Angeles architect, during a solitary business trip to New York City, where he becomes consumed by a compulsive pursuit of female companionship. The story unfolds in two parts: the first details Thorpe's obsessive nighttime search and his confrontation in a midtown bordello, while the second shifts to a police investigation into the murder of a young prostitute, with Detective Emma Boyle of the Special Victims Unit leading the case and examining Thorpe's involvement.