After publication of her novel, Deadly Treatment, Candy branched out into short story writing for radio and then started her television career on THE BILL, writing a total of 27 episodes. During her time there, the show was nominated for two Writer's Guild Awards. After brief sojourns on LONDON BRIDGE and CROSSROADS, Candy was part of the team that helped DOCTORS through development and into production with the BBC and she stayed with them through the first three series, writing 9 episodes and storylining others. She has worked on three series of HEARTBEAT, writing 9 episodes, and also worked on the development of the daytime soap THE ROYAL TODAY for ITV.
Candy is now working on a series of novels for Crime Scene Books, the first of which is due to be published in June 2017.