“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #265 Feb 2008

2007: THE YEAR IN REVIEW ABBEY’S TURNS 40 Our bestselling crime novel in any category this year was Peter Temple’s Broken Shore. Although published in 2006, this won the CWA A Continuing Retrospective Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Crime Novel and subsequently got rave After some years of offering checklists reviews on the Tuesday Book Club in the UK, giving it a new lease of of individual authors for our life. Kerry Greenwood came in a creditable second with Trick or Treat, customers, I decided to start a while Ian Rankin took out third spot with Exit Music. newsletter entitled Crime Chronicle. TOP 10 AUSTRALIAN CRIME The first issue came out in August 1984 on one double-sided foolscap 1. Peter Temple: Broken Shore Pb $22.95 page. 2. Kerry Greenwood: Trick or Treat (Corinna Chapman #4) Pb $19.95 Titles listed included: Gladys Mitchell: 3. Peter Corris: Appeal Denied (Cliff Hardy #30) Pb $19.95 Saltmarsh Murders, John Buchan: 4. Shane Maloney: Sucked In Tp $32.95 Courts of Morning, Adrian 5. Kerry Greenwood: Question of Death (Illust Phryne Fisher) Alington: Amazing Test Match Crime, Manuel Vazquez Pb $26.95 Montalban: Murder in the Central Committee, 6: Peter Corris: Undertow (Cliff Hardy #29) Pb $19.95 Josephine Bell: A Question of Inheritance, Mark 7. Leigh Redhead: Rubdown Pb $12.95 Hebden: Pel and the Bombers, Hilda Lawrence: Blood 8. Peter Temple: Shooting Star Tp $32.95 Upon the Snow, S S Van Dine: Benson Murder Case, 9. Leigh Redhead: Cherry Pie Pb $19.95 Bishop Murder Case and Greene Murder Case, Mignon 10: Kathryn Fox: Skin and Bone Tp $32.95 Eberhart: Another Man’s Murder, Nicolas Freeling: TOP 10 MODERN CRIME Arlette, Joseph Hansen: Gravedigger and Ross MacDonald: The Doomsters Tp $25.95, There was also 1 Ian Rankin: Exit Music (Rebus #17) Tp $32.95 an announcement that Umberto Eco’s The Name of the 2. Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children (#16) Tp $32.95 Rose (Pb $24.95) was due out in paperback soon (at the 3. Alexander McCall Smith: Good Husband of Zebra Drive (#8) price of $7.95!). Hb $29.95 The success of the Crime Chronicle and our mailing list 4. Martha Grimes: Old Wine Shades (Richard Jury #20) Pb $19.95 was helped along enormously when Professor Stephen 5. Alexander McCall Smith: Blue Shoes and Happiness (#7) Knight, then crime reviewer for the Sydney Morning Pb $22.95 Herald, gave the newsletter a mention in his column. Now, 6. Reginald Hill: Death of Dalziel (#21) Tp $33.00 24 years (and many thousands of books) later, we’re up to 7. Andrea Camilleri: Patience of the Spider (#11) Tp $32.95 issue #265! 8. Ruth Rendell: Not in the Flesh Tp $32.95 9. Martha Grimes: Dust (#21) Pb $19.95 10. Lilian Jackson Braun: Cat Who Had Sixty Whiskers (#29) Pb $19.95 TOP 10 HISTORICAL CRIME

1. Elizabeth Peters: Tomb of the Golden Bird (#18) Pb $19.95 2. Lindsey Davis: Saturnalia (#18) Tp $32.95 3. Peter Tremayne: Prayer for the Damned (#17) Pb $19.95 4. Bernard Knight: Noble Outlaw (#11) Pb $19.95 5. Margaret Frazer: Sempster’s Tale (#15) Pb $15.95 6. Carrie Bebris: North by Northanger (#2) Pb $15.95 7. Rosemary Rowe: Coin for the Ferryman (#9) Pb $19.95 8. Michael Jecks: Malice of Unnatural Death (#22) Pb $19.95 9. David Wishart: In at the Death (#10) Pb $19.95 10. Boris Akunin: Special Assignments (#5) Tp $29.95

I’ll provide Top 10 bestsellers for Audio, Non-Fiction and Anthologies next month. - Peter Stephen Knight (right) with Peter Corris at the launch of a Chatto series of classic crime at our store at 66 King Street. 2 Modern Crime Megan ABBOTT Nancy ATHERTON This Song is You 256pp Tp $27.95 Aunt Dimity Goes West Jeff ABBOTT 304pp Pb $15.95 Run 416pp Tp $33.00 On 7 October, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old #12. Lori Sheppard One balmy Texas evening, daughter good-bye and left for a night barely survived her widowed financier Ben Fosberg shoot at a Hollywood studio. “Wish me last adventure in answers the door to two luck,” she said as she crossed her fingers, Scotland before she’s Homeland Security agents. From winked, and walked away. She was never off on her next. This the minute he lets them in, his life spirals seen again. Drawing on this true-life time in the mountain out of control. A businessman has been missing person case, Abbott tells the story town of Bluebird, killed in a hit gone wrong and Ben’s card of Gil “Hop” Hopkins, a smooth-talking Colorado. No sooner is in the dead hitman’s pocket. The agents Hollywood publicist whose career, than she’s arrived do have a thousand questions for which he despite his complicated personal life, is things start to go has no answers, but the evidence is still on the rise. Two years after Jean amiss. Someone has piling up against him when a mysterious Spangler’s disappearance Hop finds mysteriously disappeared, a charming and stranger, known as Pilgrim, snatches him himself unwillingly drawn into the still charismatic man seems to know more than away from the agents and sets them both unsolved mystery by a friend of Jean who he’s letting on, and the whole town is on a dangerous journey. Due Feb blames Hop for concealing details about hiding a dark secret. With Aunt Dimity’s (American) Jean’s whereabouts the night she help, Lori sets out to solve a 100-year-old vanished. Due Feb (American) mystery and discovers in the process that KEY Margery ALLINGHAM sometimes the strangest places can seem Hide My Eyes the most like home. Due Feb (American) academic (aka Tether’s End) (1958) Sandi AULT 224pp Pb $23.95 Wild Indigo 304pp Pb $13.95 banking A quiet, ruthless Jamaica Wild Mystery. Bureau of killer strikes in Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild canine detectives London’s theatre- has witnessed the death of a Tanoah clerical land. Superintendent Pueblo man who was trampled by Luke thinks he has buffalo. After the tribal government and cosy/malice domestic seen the pattern local paper make allegations that Jamaica before. Mr Campion caused the stampede, she is determined culinary/food wonders what to solve this mystery. But what is became of the old revealed is a greater secret regarding fbi couple in the country Tanoah Pueblo, one that threatens its bus who must have future and its past. Due Feb (American) feline detectives witnessed the crime. Martin BAKER The trail leads to an eccentric museum in Meltdown 400pp Tp $32.95 forensic west London, and to a scrap yard in the Samuel Spendlove, one of the East End. Due Feb (English) brightest young academics at Oxford, has horse racing mystery The China Governess (1962) given it all up to work undercover for 256pp Pb $23.95 William Barton, owner of a massive media Journalists Violence, deception and death bedevil the empire. His reasons are complicated, but post-war housing estate that has grown he’s finding he gets a thrill out of working medical from the ashes of the notorious Turk for Khan, the legendary market trader, Street Mile, and the shadow of a long- working out of the Paris office of Ropner’s military forgotten murder hangs over it all - until Bank, whose dealings have been known to Luke and Campion are finally able to bring nations to their knees. Barton wants native american dispel the darkness. Due Feb (English) information about Khan. Spendlove enjoys police procedural Donna ANDERS both sides of this game, until it all unravels Sketching Evil 389pp Pb $18.95 and he finds himself simultaneously political/legal When an accused of almost bringing down the attempted rape in global economy… Due Feb (English) psychological her city apartment Ingrid BLACK leaves artist Abby Judas Heart 432pp Pb $19.95 private eye Carter deeply Marsha Reed was just another shaken, she flees to aspiring young actress trying to make it romantic suspense the beautiful in Dublin. But now, she’s found fame for Victorian house she all the wrong reasons - as victim of a sport recently inherited in brutal murder, her body left tied to her a tiny town on the bed. With former FBI agent Saxon now spy upper Hudson living in Dublin, the murder squad has River. But while the perfect expert to call on, particularly suspense/thriller rumours of ghosts from generations past when it turns out Saxon once knew the and an unsolved murder are unsettling, victim. However, Saxon is already in the Pb = Paperback handsome local homicide detective Bud middle of another, more personal, Tp = Trade Paperback Williams investigates a brand-new rash mission - to track down her ex-colleague, (slightly larger) of violent crime. Due Feb (American) Agent Leon Kaminski, who bizarrely Hb = Hardback seems to be hiding out in the streets of AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB Dublin. Due Feb (Irish)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Alice BLANCHARD Claudia Mair BURNERY Beverly CONNOR Life Sentences Murder, Mayhem and a Fine Man Dead Hunt: A Diane Fallon 560pp Pb $20.00 320pp Tp $25.95 Forensic Investigation Daisy Hubbard is a genetic researcher Amanda Bell Brown Mystery. All Amanda 384pp Pb $15.95 with a mission in life - finding a cure for Bell Brown wanted for her 40th birthday Clymene O’Riley is in prison for killing the rare condition that killed her brother was to watch CSI on television, but what her husband - though Diane Fallon is sure at the age of six. But it’s her schizophrenic she got was a couple of corpses, a hunk of she killed another, and suspects she may sister, Anna, who concerns Daisy now. a detective, and a drop-dead gorgeous have left a veritable graveyard of dead Anna has gone missing from her home in red dress. What’s a girl to do when a cult men in her wake. Either way, Diane was Los Angeles, and bloodstains have been madman is on the loose? Save the day, of happy to help put her behind bars. So found in her apartment. Daisy flies from course, and maybe snag a good man. Due when Clymene informs her that one of Boston to meet LAPD detective Jack Feb (American) the prison guards may be in danger from Makowski, and learns that a serial killer Stella CAMERON a serial killer, Diane is suspicious. And has confessed to Anna’s murder… Due Marked Man 432pp Pb $15.95 when Clymene escapes from jail, Diane Feb (American) After Max Savage opens his practice in becomes the prime suspect in a bloody Chris BOHJALIAN a remote bayou town, he hopes it is the murder that puts her in the path of an The Double Bind 384pp Tp $29.95 start of a new life. He soon discovers he angry killer who wants her dead... Due In his new literary thriller with can’t escape a past riddled with Feb (American) references to (and including characters accusations of murder and the faces of Robert CRAIS from) The Great Gatsby, Bohjalian takes two dead women, especially since The Watchman 384pp Pb $20.00 readers on a haunting journey through another woman is missing, and he had A long time ago, Joe Pike asked for one woman’s obsession with uncovering been the last to see her alive. Due Feb help. In return, he would, one day, be a dark secret. (American) (American) called upon to return the favour, no James BORN John CARBONE questions asked. That day has come. Joe Field of Fire 336pp Pb $15.95 Last of the Good Guys Pike is asked to protect the life of Larkin Since returning from Bosnia, ATF 320pp Pb $23.00 Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) agent All Marco wants is to be a stand-up guy; happens to be a federal witness in a major Alex Duarte has been re-acclimating to to make his way in the world without too case. But someone is leaking information life in South Florida. But when a much trouble. Right? But in 1970s New about their whereabouts, and the killers gunrunner’s car explodes, Duarte’s life York, that’s not so easy. Marco has the are getting all too close. So Pike he kicks into overdrive in a high-profile hunt Mafia in his blood and at only 16 years hatches a plan - disappear into the for a suspected serial bomber. Due Feb old he hears the streets calling. So he goes anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, (American) into business with a few guys - dealing a turn the tables, and hunt down the Andrew BRITTON little pot. Then Marco’s ruthless Uncle hunters. Due Feb (American) Assassin 640pp Pb $13.95 Tony gets involved. Uncle Tony is the Judith CUTLER When a high-level intelligence source man Marco most looks up to, but he The Chinese Takeout reveals that Iranian agents are planning wants Marco and his friends to help him 320pp Pb $19.95 to bomb the United Nations, US out. Just a little cocaine, a few more deals, It’s morning service in a quiet village Intelligence begins desperate counter- and then Marco’ll be set for life... Due Feb church. Josie Welford, wealthy widow of measures. Only maverick CIA agent, (American) one of the country’s most wanted Ryan Kealey, sees it as a smokescreen for Jackie CHANCE criminals and now licensee of the White another, far more terrifying plot. But no- Hold ’em Hostage 288pp Pb $13.95 Hart gastro-pub, is daydreaming during one is prepared to follow his hunch. Due Poker Mystery #3. Poker is a game of Father Tim Martin’s sermon. Suddenly the Feb (American) chance and mystery. Texas Hold ‘em peace is shattered when a filthy Chinese Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie BROWN champ Belinda ‘Bee Cool’ Cooley is back youth flings himself into the church and Puss ‘n Cahoots in Vegas for the World Series of Poker. demands sanctuary. Should the Church 352pp Pb $15.95 But a sinister stranger has kidnapped accede to the request for protection that no Mrs Murphy Mystery. Bee’s goddaughter and threatened to kill longer has legal standing? Or should it Instead of a proper her if Bee doesn’t win the tournament and hand Tang over to the authorities? Josie second honeymoon, hand over the pot. Due Feb (American) supports Tim’s decision to protect Tang, the newly remarried Noah CHARNEY but not all the congregation agree, taking Harry and Fair The Art Thief 304pp Tp $29.95 their grievances to the Church hierarchy. Haristeen leave cosy The disappearance of a priceless (English) Crozet, Virginia, for Caravaggio in Rome and the famous Mary DAHEIM Shelbyville, ‘White on White’ by Russian painter The Alpine Scandal Kentucky, site of the Kasimir Malevich in Paris heralds the 320pp Pb $13.95 famous saddle-bred start of a series of seemingly unconnected Emma Lord Mystery #19. Welcome to horse show. But soon art crimes across Europe. Fitting the mystery lovers’ favourite destination: after they arrive, pieces together as they follow a trail of Alpine, Washington, Mary Daheim’s events veer mysteriously and bluffs and double-bluffs, bizarre clues picturesque old logging town in the murderously off course. First, Joan’s ruby and intellectual puzzles, Inspector Jean- foothills of the Cascade Mountains. From and sapphire horse-head heirloom pin is Jacques Bizot in Paris and Harry the Venison Inn to the Upper Crust stolen from her private box at the Wickenden of Scotland Yard come to Bakery, Front Street is jumping-and the fairgrounds. Then a body is found realise that what at first appears a spate of nerve centre of the community is the flagrantly murdered and it’s obvious to random thefts is all part of a single master office of The Alpine Advocate, Emma Harry that someone at Shelbyville is plan, and that they are being led ever Lord’s weekly newspaper, which keeps sending a strong message: winning is deeper into a baffling conspiracy. Debut. folks up to speed on everything from only secondary, first prize is survival. Due Feb (English) joyous weddings to sudden, violent Due Feb (American) death. Due Feb (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Robert DALEY Linda FAIRSTEIN Brent GHELFI Pictures 352pp Pb $19.95 Killer Heat 416pp Tp $33.00 Volk’s Game 352pp Tp $24.95 Vince Conte was a New York cop Success can never be guaranteed in Two men are until he punched the senior officer having every case Alexandra Cooper prosecutes, massacred in an an affair with his wife. Forced to resign, but for once the odds are with her; she is expensive he’s bored by his work for a private able to put away a serial rapist for a crime Moscow bar. But security firm. Tony Murano was a tennis he committed over 20 years previously. the bullets miss player dating the daughter of royalty. Outside the courtroom another predator is their target - Then his career faltered and his girlfriend at large. His first victim was a call-girl, a Alexei Volkovoy got pregnant. Now Murano is under his cat-o-nine-tails discovered near her body, - Volk for short. father-in-law’s thumb, unable to find the and it seems as though Detectives Mike He’s a deadly, investors he needs to become a Chapman and Mercer Wallace need to battle-hardened businessman in his own right. When look amongst her clients for the killer - but veteran of tabloids all over Europe publish pictures the discovery of other corpses, the modus Russia’s brutal of his poolside tryst with an anonymous operandi remarkably similar to the first, war in Chechnya, woman on the day his wife gave birth to turns the investigation into a hunt for a and he serves two masters: Maxim, a the royal heir, Murano’s father-in-law is random and viciously sadistic murderer. psychotic mafia kingpin; and a military all too glad to dismiss him. His young Due Feb (American) man known only as the General. By his wife is heartbroken, though, and her Bill FLOYD side is Valya, an exotic beauty and the mother decides to investigate. Due Feb The Killer’s Wife 304pp Tp $33.00 most dangerous weapon in Volk’s (American) Six years after her ex-husband is arsenal. Together they are commissioned Robert DUGONI sentenced to death for a series of to steal a long-lost masterpiece from St Damage Control gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum. Volk 304pp Pb $15.95 almost succeeded in putting her life back must choose which powerful man he will Attorney Dana Hill is used to managing a together. But now her new life is in betray in order to escape with the stressful life: she’s one of the most danger as the father of one of her ex- painting and with his life. Due Feb successful lawyers at Strong & husband’s victims begins to stalk her and (American) Thurmond, mother to a young daughter, her son, and a new killer appears, with Margaret GRACE wife to a busy, self-involved man. But methods which are frightening familiar. Murder in Miniature when she is diagnosed with breast Due Feb (American) 256pp Pb $13.95 cancer, and her twin brother is beaten to Joanne FLUKE Miniature Mystery. Geraldine Porter death in an apparent robbery-gone- Key Lime Pie Murder thought that being the chairwoman of the wrong in the same week, the careful 352pp Pb $13.95 local Dollhouse and Miniatures Fair balance of Dana’s life is sent into flux. Hannah Swensen #9. “Yummy… Fluke has would give her leisure time to spend on Due Feb (American) developed a charming supporting cast – her favourite craft. That was before a Dianne EMLEY all feel like friends by the time the murder fellow miniatures aficionado is suspected The First Cut 368pp Pb $12.95 is solved. The dozens of tempting recipes of murder, leaving Gerry to prove the For two Fluke includes are an added treat.” – woman’s innocence - or die trying. Due minutes she was Publisher’s Weekly. Due Feb (American) Feb (American) dead. The assailant Patry FRANCIS Andrew GREELEY was vicious, the Liar’s Diary 320pp Tp $27.95 Irish Linen 384pp Pb $15.95 attack brutal-and it Answering the question of “what is Nuala Anne McGrail Mystery. After an left her lifeless - more powerful, family or friendship?” idealistic young man from Nuala and until her pulse this riveting debut novel unforgettably Dermot’s West Side Chicago fluttered and she shows how far one woman would go to neighbourhood goes missing in Iraq, the jolted awake. Now, protect either. Due Feb (American) US government denies any knowledge of a year later, Tess GERRITSEN his whereabouts, and his grieving family detective Nan Thief of Hearts (1995) has all but written him off as dead. Nuala, Vining is still 360pp Tp $29.95 however, is convinced that there’s more questioning her He was a gentleman bandit, she was a cat to the story. Due Feb (American) strength, her safety, even her sanity. Can burglar. And they caught each other in John GRISHAM she ever again be the cop, and mother, more ways than one. But their desire was The Appeal she was before? And will her attacker as strong as their distrust, and Jordan 368pp Hb $49.95 someday return to finish the job, before Tavistock began to fear that Diana Lamb In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a she can track him down herself? Shaky was more than just a thief of hearts… jury returns a shocking verdict against a but determined, Vining rejoins the (American) chemical company accused of dumping Pasadena PD, only to confront a murder Never Say Die/ Call after Midnight toxic waste into a small town’s water case that strikes close to home. A slain 528pp Pb $19.95 supply, causing the worst “cancer policewoman has been discovered Never Say Die: 20 years after her father’s cluster” in history. The company appeals beneath the Colorado Street Bridge, her plane crashes in the jungles of Southeast to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose body bruised, her throat slit. Due Feb Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is finally nine justices will one day either approve (American) tracking his last moves. Call after the verdict or reverse it. The chemical Janet EVANOVICH Midnight: A ringing phone wakes company is owned by a Wall Street Plum Lucky 203pp Pb $19.95 newlywed Sarah Fontaine to tell her that predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr Diesel makes an appearance just her husband has died in Berlin. But Sarah Trudeau is convinced the Court is not after Valentines Day in order to turn is unconvinced and sets out on a friendly enough. With judicial elections Stephanie’s world upside down. Due Feb dangerous journey to find him. looming, he decides to try to purchase (American) (American) himself a seat on the Court. Due Feb (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Steven HAGUE Charlaine HARRIS David HEWSON Justice for All 336pp Pb $29.95 A Bone to Pick The Garden of Evil Zac Hunter has crossed the line one 272pp Pb $15.95 360pp Tp $32.95 too many times. His life and career are in Aurora Teagarden In a hidden studio in an area of Rome, ruins, sacrificed to put away a child-killer Mystery. Death comes where the Vatican liked to keep an eye on and wasted when a slick defence lawyer calling on a small- the city’s prostitutes, an art expert from talks a jury into finding his quarry town librarian whose the Louvre is found dead in front of one innocent. With nothing to loose, Hunter life is passing her by. of the most beautiful paintings that Nic sets out to ensure justice is done. But will Aurora “Roe” Costa has ever seen - an unknown he be too late... Due Feb (German) Teagarden’s fortunes Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long, James HALL change when a tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. Magic City 336pp Pb $13.95 deceased acquaintance The main suspect’s identity is known, but A simple black and white photograph names her as heir to a he remains untouchable protected in his taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay- rather substantial grand palazzo by a fleet of lawyers and a Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may estate, including money, jewellery, and a sinister cult known as the Ekstasists. If hold the key to a horrific, politically house complete with a skull hidden in a Costa and his team can crack the reasons motivated crime 42 years earlier. After it window seat. Roe concludes that the for the cult’s existence, he may well stand mysteriously reappears, the photo is elderly women had purposely left her a a chance of nailing his wife’s killer. But burned in an act of arson that sets off a murder to solve. So she must identify the the mystery will take him right back to modern-day killing spree reaching from victim and figure out which one of her Caravaggio himself and the reasons he the quiet neighbourhoods of Miami to the new, ordinary-seeming neighbours is a had to flee Rome, all those centuries back corridors of the White House. What murderer-without putting herself in before... Due Feb (American) the killer did not know is that a copy of deadly danger. Due Feb (American) Carl HIAASEN (Ed) the photograph still remains. When it John HART Best American Mystery Stories falls into Thorn’s hands, he and everyone Down River 336pp Tp $33.00 2007 352pp Pb $29.95 he close to him, including his beloved Adam Chase has spent the last five Here are 20 of the year’s stand-out crime Alexandra, become the targets of years in New York trying to wipe out the short stories, showcasing not only the madmen and trained hit men, each of memory of his family’s rejection. Until a very best of the genre, but also the very whom has a powerful motive to see the phone call from his best friend summons best American writing full stop. Due Feb photograph destroyed - and will go to him back to Red Water Farm. When he (American) murderous lengths to make it disappear left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Philip JENNINGS forever. Due Feb (American) Now he has no choice but to return, and Goodbye Mexico 352pp Pb $15.95 Patricia HALL being remembered as a murderer doesn’t Having survived the Vietnam War’s By Death Divided help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is wildest secret mission, Jack Armstrong is 288pp Hb $49.95 beaten up, accosted and has to face the happily working for the CIA in Mexico Laura Ackroyd, the journalist girlfriend hostility of those closest to him, including City, until an unexpected reunion has him of DCI Michael Thackerary, becomes Grace, the young woman he cannot wishing he were back in Nam, face down drawn into the plight of Jenny Holden forget. Nothing has changed. And then in a rice paddy. The incorrigible and her daughter Anna when she writes people start turning up dead… Due Feb Gearheardt - evidently, not as dead as Jack an article about domestic abuse. Suffering (American) thought - arrives with the daftly righteous violence at the hands of her husband, David HEWSON mission of saving the world’s prostitutes Jenny takes flight to a women’s refuge. The Promised Land by handing them a country of their own. But her dreams of a safety are shattered 400pp Pb $19.95 And he’s sure he can trick ‘the Company’ when young Anna goes missing. Bierce was a happily into helping him do it. Due Feb (American) Meanwhile, Mohammed Sharif, is finding married cop with a Jane HILL it increasing difficult to keep his balance bright future. Then The Murder Ballad on the tightrope he walks between his one day his wife and 480pp Pb $21.95 family’s traditional Muslim beliefs and their young son were Stumbling headlong his job as a policeman. When his newly savagely beaten to into a passionate fling married cousin Faria Aziz disappears, death. Bierce was and an impromptu Mohammed tries to trace her to ease the convicted of their marriage to music star worry of his family. But his unofficial murders. Trey, Maeve’s life is inquiry soon becomes a police matter Languishing on about to change when a bloated and badly lacerated Death Row 23 years beyond recognition. corpse is pulled from the river. Due Feb later, he still has no Trey wants to whisk (English) memory of the incident. Unexpectedly her off to his country Karen HARPER released just seconds before his execution, house in North Below the Surface400pp Pb $13.95 he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half- Carolina and Maeve Diver Briana Devon knows her twin Chinese Alice Loong, who guides him follows him without a backward glance. sister would never deliberately leave her, through the confusing new world of the But when she first lays eyes on her new but when she emerges from underwater, 21st century. Pursued by mysterious home, a dilapidated old cabin in the Darla and their boat have vanished. enemies who are convinced that Bierce middle of nowhere, she begins to feel Fighting rough waves and a fast- knows more than he is telling about his uneasy. Nothing quite matches up to approaching storm, Bree barely makes it wife’s death, the pair is forced into a what she’s been led to expect and, below to a tiny barrier island, where Cole De dangerous race against time to uncover the the surface, a dark secret lies buried that Roca, who has also taken shelter, revives truth about the events of that fateful day. has never been resolved. Too late, Maeve her. Due Feb (American) Due Feb (English) realises that she is all alone in a strange country, sharing a life with a man she hardly knows. Due Feb (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Naomi HIRAHARA Gwen HUNTER Philip KERR The Summer of the Big Bachi Sleep Softly 384pp Pb $13.95 A Quiet Flame 368pp Tp $29.95 368pp Pb $13.95 Four little girls, each blond, each on A Bernie Gunther In the foothills of the verge of adolescence, are stolen from Mystery. Posing as an Pasadena, Mas Arai is their families. Their bodies are discovered escaping Nazi war- just another Japanese- months later in shallow graves, criminal Bernie American gardener, his surrounded by trinkets they never Gunther arrives in lawnmower blades owned, and each clutching a scrap of Buenos Aires and, clean and sharp, his paper bearing a cryptic verse... Due Feb having revealed his truck carefully tuned. (American) real identity to the But while Mas keeps J A JANCE local chief of police, lawns neatly trimmed, Web of Evil 368pp Tp $29.95 discovers that his his own life has gone to Ali Reynolds #2. The highway from reputation as a seed. His wife is dead. Los Angeles to the Palm Springs desert is detective goes before And his livelihood is falling into the hands parched, unforgiving and deadly. In the him. A young girl has been murdered in of the men he once hired by the day. For suffocating stillness of a car trunk, a man - gruesome circumstances that resemble Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And his mouth and hands bound with tape - Bernie’s final case as a homicide detective now bachi, the spirit of retribution, is waits to learn his fate. Fortunately for him, with the Berlin police during the dog days knocking on his door. It begins when a he’ll never know. What possible enemy of the Weimar Republic. A case he had stranger comes around, asking questions could be bitter enough to commit such a failed to solve. Circumstances lead the about a nurseryman who once lived in heinous crime? And when will the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose Hiroshima, a man known as Joji Haneda. monster make another move? Ali that the murderer may be one of several By the end of the summer, Joji will be dead Reynolds is travelling that same blistering, thousand ex-Nazis who have fetched up in and Mas’s own life will be in danger. lonesome highway, looking forward to Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who Debut. Due Feb (Japanese) putting her past behind her. But her better than Bernie to help him track that Joyce HOLMS cheating husband is in a hurry for a murderer down? Reluctantly Bernie Missing Link 288pp Pb $19.95 divorce; his very young and very pregnant agrees to help the police and discovers Fizz & Buchanan Mystery #9. Fizz fiancé has a wedding planned for the next much more than he, or even they Fitzgerald finds it hard to hide her day. As she passes the site of a horrifying bargained for. Due Feb (English) impatience when elderly Mrs Sullivan is accident, she thanks goodness it’s no Diane KETCHAM shown into her office. Genteel and longer her job to report the news. Until she The Vanishing A List motherly, Mrs Sullivan can only spell one finds out the news is her own. Due Feb 336pp Tp $29.95 thing: boredom. Fizz is more than (American) From the Hamptons to Naples, Florida; shocked, therefore, when Mrs Sullivan Iris JOHANSEN LA to Palm Beach, the beautiful people asks Fizz to help prove her guilty of On the Run 400pp Pb $15.95 are disappearing… Due Feb (American) murder...Could this story be too good to For eight years, single mother Grace Kenzo KITAKATA be true? Fizz is determined to get to the Archer has been living a picture-perfect City of Refuge bottom of this mystery and ropes in long- life raising her daughter on a horse farm 256pp Tp $29.95 suffering partner-in-crime Tam Buchanan. in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. He killed two gangsters for the woman he However, Buchanan is reluctant to accept Watching Frankie grow into a talented loves, Makiko. The sensation of the an old lady’s money on a case that can and confident young girl has made Grace murder on Koji’s hands is still fresh. Now only prove to be a waste of time. But is it? as happy as any mother could hope to be. he’s running from the police as well as the This new case for dynamic detective duo Happy enough, even, to forget the past. mob. Unlike your ordinary hero, Koji Fizz and Buchanan is as puzzling as ever. But the past never quite goes away. kidnaps a boy during his getaway. On his (Scottish) Which is why a certain charismatic man trail is “”the Old Dog”” Detective Arlene HUNT also moved to Tallanville eight years ago Takagi... Due Feb (Japanese) Missing Presumed Dead to watch over her. But when violence Jayne Ann KRENTZ 320pp Pb $20.00 threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie’s Sizzle and Burn 368pp Tp $33.00 It is 1980. 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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Chris KUZNESKI Giulio LEONI Tom MARTIN Sword of God 432pp Tp $32.95 The Mosaic Crimes Pyramid 400pp Pb $19.95 In a secret bunker, one of the world’s 321pp Tp $27.95 An eminent Oxford professor is most dangerous terrorists is under Dante Alighieri murdered but the authorities are calling it interrogation - until he is rescued, and his Mystery. Florence, a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine captors are slaughtered. Ex-MANIAC June 1300. The body Donovan refuses to believe the official honcho Jonathan Payne vows revenge, of an artist, his face verdict especially after she receives a but there is more to the bloody atrocity covered in quicklime, cryptic note sent just before the than terrorist reprisal. There is a plot in is discovered next to professor’s death, along with a collection motion that will burn the world in the the mosaic he had of priceless antique maps. Teaming up fires of holy war. 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Due Feb (Australian) togethers with light one, computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, a Peg MARBERG refreshments, heavy tattooed, truculent, angry girl who rides a Decorated to Death gossip, and Dr Sonja motorbike like a Hell’s Angel and handles 224pp Pb $13.95 Madhavi and her makeshift weapons with the skill born of Interior Design Mystery. Patterns of a magic Botox needles. remorseless rage. This unlikely pair form a deadly kind emerge when the wealthy Former socialite fragile bond as they delve into the sinister new client of decorator Jean Hastings is Andy Kendricks normally wouldn’t be past of this island-bound, tightly-knit murdered. Due Feb (American) caught dead at such an event, but she’s family. Due Feb (Swedish) Kate MARSH (Katie MACALISTER) attending as a favour to her friend Janet, a Stephen LEATHER Ghost of a Chance society reporter in search of a juicy story. Dead Men 320pp Tp $33.00 288pp Pb $13.95 And boy does she find one when aging beauty queen Miranda DuBois bursts into Former SAS trooper turned Karma Marx exorcises haunted houses, the room, drunk, disorderly and packing a undercover cop Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd sending troublesome poltergeists and pistol. Due Feb (American) knows there are no easy solutions in the other spirits to the ever after. But one war against terrorism. But when a killer assignment traps Karma, her foster child, Alexander McCALL SMITH starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, her sleazy soon-to-be-ex husband, Spider, The Good Husband of Zebra Shepherd has to put his life on the line to and his crooked partner under one roof. Drive 240pp Pb $23.00 protect his former enemies. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Charles McCARRY Barbara NADEL Christopher PIKE The Miernik Dossier Pretty Dead Things Falling 416pp Pb $15.95 256pp Tp $32.95 416pp Tp $33.00 Love hurts. While FBI agent Kelly Introducing master Cetin Ikmen #10. When Emine Aksu, the Feinman is recovering from an attack by a spy Paul Christopher, middle-aged wife of an Istanbul style serial killer called the “Acid Man,” her an unlikely touring guru, suddenly goes missing, Ikmen husband leaves her. Physically and party of five friends looks into her past for clues. As a emotionally scarred by the murderer, embark on a road trip youngster Emine was a hippie and Kelly feels she will never be the same. She to deliver a brand new associated with the Europeans who is cut off not only from her husband and Cadillac, from flooded Istanbul in the 60s and 70s. child, but also from her fellow FBI agents, Switzerland to the Meanwhile, Suleyman is called to a who see her as a rogue for going after the Sudan. All five are bizarre scene at the art deco Kamondo Acid Man alone. Love is hell. Matt attached to the UN in Stairs in the old banking district of Connor’s love for his girlfriend, Amy, is Geneva, and all five Karakoy. A skeleton has been discovered so intense that he feels he is in heaven are more than they claim to be. Due Feb in one of the large plant containers. Could when he is with her. When Amy leaves (American) these two incidents be linked? As both him for another man, Matt is shattered. In Hope McINTYRE policemen delve deeper into the Old agony, he plans a diabolical scheme that How to Marry a Ghost City’s past, the trail of elderly ‘heads’ first calls for him to disappear from the 368pp Pb $20.00 eventually leads them to a quiet little shoe face of the earth. Due Feb (American) Ghost-writer Lee finds she has serious shop in Balat. But appearances can be Rhonda POLLERO competition in her ghosting assignments deceiving... Due Feb (English) Knock Off 320pp Pb $13.95 from her agent’s latest client, the well- Alex PALMER Finley Anderson Tanner #1. Meet Finley heeled and well-connected Bettina The Tattooed Man Tp $30.00 Anderson Tanner - FAT to her enemies. Pleshette. 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Meanwhile assignment of ghosting the autobiography Sydney’s north. she’s dealing with the hot, hunky PI of controversial former rock star Shotgun Here he finds four assigned to the case, Liam McGarrity. Who Marriot. But the stakes are suddenly raised people, all dead. knew crime could be this much fun? But if when two people are found dead. One is One is a senator’s ex-wife, another is a Finley wants to bring home the real goods, wearing a wedding dress and washed up missing corrupt detective. Due Feb she’ll have to work hard to keep from onto the sand, and the other in the nearby (Australian) becoming a killer’s total knock off... Due woods. As the investigation unfolds, Christopher PETERS Feb (American) Marriott appears to be the prime suspect The Fabric of Night R Scott REISS even though the young man in the 320pp Tp $29.95 Black Monday 352pp Tp $29.95 wedding dress is his son. Due Feb (English) Albin Kranz, a 28- When the first planes go down - in Chris MOONEY year-old sculptor Europe, in California, in Asia - authorities The Missing 416pp Pb $19.95 and the son of an blame terrorists. All flights are grounded When Boston abusive father, is as world leaders try to figure out how the CSI Darby melancholic, global assault has been coordinated. And McCormick finds a alcoholic, and beset when cars, ships and factories stop raving and emaciated by painful running too, it becomes clear that the woman hiding at the memories of his common link is oil. Somehow a microbe, scene of a violent childhood. genetically engineered to destroy kidnap, she runs a Although he tries to petroleum, has infected the world supply. DNA search to make sense out of The world descends into a new dark age. identify the Jane Doe. what has happened Dr Gregory Gillette, an epidemiologist The result confirms to him, his consciousness frequently with the Centre for Disease Control, is a she was abducted becomes altered and he seems to be disease hunter specialising in microbes five years earlier and hallucinating. At her wits end, Livia, a that attack human beings. When the has somehow managed to escape from the photographer with whom he has lived for Pentagon taps him to be part of the Rapid dungeon in which she’s been caged. With five years, suggests that they go to Response Team assembled to track and kill a teenage couple also missing and Jane Istanbul to give their love one last chance. the devastating Delta-3 bacteria, he Doe seriously ill, the clock is ticking for Their vacation gets off to an ominous quickly discovers that his expertise is Darby as she hunts for the dungeon before start. One morning as he is standing on ignored, his presence meaningless. The anyone else disappears or dies. And when the roof terrace of his hotel, Albin leader of the task force is an old nemesis the FBI takes over the investigation, it witnesses the murder of Miller, an who sidelines Gillette. Gillette returns becomes clear that a sadistic serial killer American gem dealer, at the hotel across home to Washington, where he watches in has been on the prowl for decades - and is the way. But like some desperately horror as food becomes scarce, neighbour poised to strike again at any moment - a misunderstood character in a Hitchcock attacks neighbour, and government killer with links to horrors that Darby has film, Albin can’t persuade anyone of what collapses. Due Feb (American) desperately tried to bury in her past. Due he saw, nor can he find any proof. Due Feb Feb (American) (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 J D ROBB Mary SAUMS Maj SJOWALL & Per WAHLOO Strangers in Death Thistle and Twig Cop Killer (1974) 320pp Tp $33.00 304pp Pb $13.95 288pp Pb $20.00 In Death #26. Thistle & Twig Mystery. Jane Martin Beck #9. A woman is found Technology may be Thistle was happily married to a career murdered in Anderslöv, near Trelleborg different in 2060 military officer whose job took her all in southern Sweden. Martin Beck is called New York, yet the around the globe. But now that he’s in to investigate the crime. Meanwhile, a city is still a place of passed, she’s happy to call the quaint couple of youth criminals kill a policeman many cultures and town of Tullulah, Alabama, her new when they’re stopped driving a stolen great divides. But as home. Her new best friend, Phoebe car. While Martin Beck investigates the ever, some murders Twigg, is also a widow, and has lived in murder of the woman, Gunvald Larsson receive more Tullulah all her life. Phoebe is about as takes command of the hunt for the cop attention than different as could be from the worldly killers. Due Feb (Swedish) others, especially and refined Jane. But Phoebe’s warm, The Terrorists (1975) those in which the welcoming Southern nature wins her 288pp Pb $19.95 victim is a prominent businessman, over, and the two women end up making Martin Beck #10. Martin Beck leads a team found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied quite a pair. Especially when they of policemen to prevent a presumed to the bed and strangled with cords of stumble over a dead body while on a terrorist attack on a highly unpopular black velvet. It doesn’t surprise walk in the woods... Due Feb (American) American senator who is paying an Lieutenant Eve Dallas that Thomas Michele SCOTT official visit to Sweden. Due Feb Anders’ scandalous death is a source of Tacked to Death (Swedish) titillation and speculation to the public 272pp Pb $13.95 Patricia SPRINKLE and of humiliation to his family. But Horse Lover’s Mystery. Prime Crime trots What Are You Wearing to Die? while all those in the city are talking out the third Horse Lover’s mystery. It’s a 288pp Pb $13.95 about it, people close to Anders aren’t so big day for horse trainer Michaela Thoroughly Southern anxious to do the same. With some help Bancroft: the opening of her tack shop, a Mystery #10. from her billionaire husband, Roarke, Eve gala fashion show, and now the murder Georgia magistrate is soon knocking on doors, or barging of a polo rider. Due Feb (American) MacLaren through them, to find answers. Due Feb Terry SHAW Yarbrough has (American) The Way Life Should Be never believed her Karen ROSE 295pp Pb $24.95 husband’s threat to Nothing to Fear 544pp Tp $33.00 Newspaper editor John Quinn and his shackle her to her Sue Conroy is out of control. Recently wife have returned to his hometown to desk to keep her released from prison she is determined to raise their son, but real estate prices have from ‘meddling in find the people responsible for putting soared and natives are being pushed out. murder’. But when her there and to give them a taste of what Then a popular politician and family man Starr Knight, the she has had to endure. When Sue kidnaps is murdered at a well-known gay pickup taxidermist’s an 11-year-old deaf boy it’s only the first spot. The victim was Quinn’s childhood daughter, is found dead, that’s just what stage in an elaborate plan. Running to friend, Paul Stanwood. Quinn insists Paul Joe Riddley does, despite Mac’s protest Chicago, Sue poses as a battered woman was only investigating a police that she has no intention of getting and it leads her to Hanover House, an crackdown at the park. When the police involved. She just has one question; why inner-city women’s shelter, run by Dana chief and others seem to ignore and did the flamboyant young mother dress Dupinsky. Distracted by the presence of a downplay obvious clues, Quinn takes so sedately on the day she died? Due Feb new man in her life, Dana only realises matters into his own hands. Even though (American) the danger when those around suddenly his wife’s car is vandalised and a source is P J TRACY start dying and she is thrust into the severely beaten after he speaks out on the Snow Blind 400pp Pb $19.95 middle of Sue’s dangerous and evil game. hidden violence against gays, Quinn Minneapolis, Due Feb (American) refuses to stop looking for answers. Due winter’s first white Jonathan SANTLOFER Feb (American) flakes, a park full of Anatomy of Fear Yrsa SIGURDARDOTTIR snowmen; but the 352pp Pb $15.95 Last Rituals 432pp Tp $33.00 layers of packed NYPD sketch artist A young man is found brutally snow hide a Nate Rodriguez murdered, his eyes gouged out. A ghoulish surprise. possesses a student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, First, the bodies of remarkable gift. he came from a wealthy German family two cops are found From the smallest who do not share the police’s belief that inside the snowmen clues - an off-hand his drug dealer murdered him. Attorney and then a day later, comment, a brief Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned in the countryside to flash of fear in a by his mother to find out the truth, with the north, Sheriff Iris Rikker makes a victim’s eyes - he is the help, and hindrance, of boorish ex- similarly shocking discovery. Soon able to create an policeman Matthew Reich. Their Detectives Gino and Magozzi are sent uncanny likeness of investigations into his research take them north through the worst blizzard the assailant. Now deep into a grisly world of torture and Minnesota’s seen for years to find what Detective Terri Russo needs his help to witchcraft both past and present, as they else links the investigations. But some solve a particularly shocking series of draw ever closer to a killer gripped by a secrets you don’t want to uncover. And as murders, perpetrated by a psychopath dangerous obsession...Due Feb (Icelandic) the cases unravel, it seems snowmen are who enjoys drawing pictures of his not the only ones with something to hide... crimes before committing them. Due Feb Due Feb (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Fred VARGAS Debra WEBB This Night’s Foul Work Nameless 352pp Pb $13.95 HISTORICAL 416pp Tp $32.95 Vivian Grace is CRIME On the outskirts of an FBI rookie on a Paris, two men have mission: To hunt Mike ASHLEY (Ed) been found with down a kidnapper The Mammoth Book of Dickensian their throats cut. It is “with all her heart”. Whodunnits 496pp Pb $24.95 assumed that this is a Because for Vivian, Charles Dickens created some of the most drug-related herself a victim of a memorable characters in English incident of the kind vicious kidnapping literature and was also a larger-than-life so often uncovered years ago, this case is individual himself, a champion of the in that area of town. about more than underdog. The anthology presents a mix But Adamsberg is justice. This time, it’s of specially commissioned new stories convinced that there personal. Ryan and lesser known reprints, by writers is more to it. Anxious McBride is an ex-agent who was scape- such as Hilary Bonner, Anne Perry, to keep control of the case, he must call in goated three years ago for a kidnapping Charles Todd, Kate Ellis, Alanna Knight, a favour from the pathologist Ariane case gone fatally wrong. Since then, he Martin Edwards and Gillian Linscott. Due Lagarde, someone he had come up has been drinking himself into oblivion, Feb (Various) against 23 years previously. The trail also trying to forget the past. Until Vivian Gyles BRANDRETH leads Adamsberg to a cemetery, where a shows up at his door and knocks him Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight grave has been disturbed with no head-first into the present. Someone is Murders 368pp Pb $23.00 apparent motive. Could this be the work using his and Vivian’s darkest secrets London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated of the elderly nurse, a serial killer caught against them - and time is running out for poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the by Adamsberg two years ago and the victims... Due Feb (American) literary sensation of his age. Yet when he recently escaped from prison? Due Feb Melinda WELLS chances across the naked corpse of 16- (French) Killer Mousse 320pp Pb $15.95 year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight Nury VITTACHI Della Cooks Mystery. Meet Della in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot Mr Wong Goes West Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in ignore the brutal murder. With the help of 264pp Pb $22.95 Santa Monica, California, and, as of this fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets The world’s biggest and most expensive week, star of a brand-new cable cooking out to solve the crime. But it is Wilde’s aircraft, Skyparc’s ‘office in the sky’ show. 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But intertwining all the intrigue of the classic greenie, who happens to be a friend of Mr he also knows an English murder mystery with a Wong’s assistant, Joyce McQuinnie, is impossible job when compelling portrait of one of the greatest arrested. Mr Wong is delighted. The fact it comes along. So characters of the Victorian age. Due Feb that a murder has taken place means that when an ex-cop (English) his job is now far more important and he named Eppick Clio GRAY can charge a much higher price. But as he presents him with a The Roaring of the Labyrinth flies to London to confer with officials, job that involves 400pp Pb $23.00 Skyparc’s wheel assemblages are blown stealing a bejewelled, solid gold chess set, Astonishment Hall, a country estate on the off and it’s revealed there is a bomb on a chess set weighing more than one man border between Durham and Cumbria, is board. Wong must not only solve the can carry, from an underground vault in full of weird and wonderful exhibitions. It mystery, but land the plane himself. Due a Manhattan bank, Dortmunder says no is truly a place of wonder. But when a Feb (Chinese) thanks. Eppick says steal the chess set or valuable exhibit is stolen from the hall, it is Tina WAINSCOTT go to jail for previous crimes. So John and only the first in a series of unpleasant and What Lies in Shadow his bumbling band of good natured seemingly unconnected events. A bell 384pp Pb $13.95 thieves put together a plan. But is it a tower is burnt to the ground, trapping a Her blog is one of the workable plan? Due Feb (American) young boy inside, an outbreak of thefts hottest on the Web, a Gayle WILSON plagues the valley, and a man is violently place where she can Victim 368pp Pb $13.95 murdered and left to the crows and the be herself and talk Racked with grief over her son snow. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 Claire BOOTH The False Prophet: Conspiracy, Extortion and Murder in the Name of God 288pp Pb $15.95 In the summer of 2000, Taylor Helzer was convinced he was chosen to usher in the second coming of Jesus Christ, by any means necessary. This is the story of his unholy reign of terror and how the police took the self-proclaimed prophet down. Due Feb (American) Dave COPELAND Blood and Money: The True Story of Ron Gonen: Gangster Turned FBI Informant 288pp Pb $27.95 Filled with paranoid mobsters, clever scams, and deep betrayals, this book gives a unique insight into one of the most successful gangs ever to operate on American soil. Dubbed the ‘Israeli Mafia’ his gang went to war with the Italian mafia, killed Russian gangsters and pulled off the biggest gold heist in the history of Manhattan’s Diamond District. They would have become the most powerful gang in the New York underworld had Gonen not decided to risk his life and become an FBI informant. Due Feb (Irish) John GLATT Forgive Me, Father: A True Story of a Priest, a Nun, and Brutal Murder 320pp Pb $13.95 Father Gerald Robinson was a pillar of his Toledo, Ohio church-going community. A popular priest, he was especially admired in the city’s Polish neighbourhoods for delivering powerful sermons in Polish. In later years, Father Robinson ministered to the sick, and eventually ended up serving as chaplain at Mercy Hospital, where he met Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Sister Margaret, age 72, was well-loved at Mercy. When, in the hospital’s sacristy, she was found dead with numerous stab wounds to her neck, chest, and head - in the pattern of a cross - no one could believe it. Who at Mercy could have committed such evil? Due Feb (American) Dale HUDSON Kiss and Kill 320pp Pb $13.95 Hudson delivers the extraordinary and chilling true story of Rick Pulley, a highly respected youth pastor in his Virginia community, who murders his wife in cold blood and nearly gets away with it. Due Feb (American) Ian MUNRO & Garry TIPPET Lives of Crime 320pp Tp $28.00 Over 25 tales of grisly murders and suspicious killings are laid out for inspection, including the story of the Police Killers and tales of the seedy Melbourne underworld. Due Feb (Australian) O J SIMPSON If I Did It 240pp Pb $27.95 Over 10 years after he was tried for two murders in the “Trial of the Century” that captured the attention of the world, O J Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes. Due Feb (American)

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