“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #247 august 2006

AUTHOR OF THE MONTH CWA DAGGER AWARDS ELIZABETH PETERS DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER (formerly the Gold Dagger) Two new titles from one of my favourite authors: Tomb of the Golden Bird 354pp Hb 49.95 The chase is on – and Amelia Peabody and family are in the thick of it. It is 1922. Convinced that the tomb of the little-known pharaoh Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, Emerson has tried to persuade his rivals Lord Carnavon and Howard Carter to hand over their digging rights in the valley to him, but to no avail. Emerson is disappointed, but back in Luxor, an incident at the Emerson-Peabody clan’s hotel provides a distraction. Emerson and Ramses are lured into a trap by a group of villains demanding an answer to Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (Tp 32.95) the mysterious question, ‘Where is he?’. Their DUNCAN LAWRIE curiosity piqued, the duo determine to uncover who INTERNATIONAL DAGGER ‘he’ is and why ‘he’ should be so important. Is Emerson’s charming half-brother behind these odd events? Or is Seth himself in danger, privy to a secret that certain governments do not want exposed? One thing is for sure, Emerson, Amelia and their dauntless family are in for another round of danger and excitement. The 18th in the series. Peters lays out her scenes of romantic derring-do with such a lavish hand that it seems a bit nerdy to draw attention to the deeper pleasure of the rich scholarship involved in these archaeological mysteries. “ - The New York Times Book Review The Serpent on the Crown 288pp Pb 21.95 The Three Evangelists ” by Fred Vargas (Tp 32.95) A unique treasure obtained by unscrupulous means, the small gold statuette of an unidentified Egyptian IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER king is a priceless relic from a bygone era. But more than history surrounds the remarkable artefact, for it is said that early death will come to anyone who possesses it. Enjoying a world finally at peace, the Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922. With the lengthy ban on their archaeological activities lifted, Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in Egypt’s ever-shifting sands. But a widow’s strange story – and even stranger request – is about to plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, superstition… and murder. The 17th in the series. Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone (Tp 29.95) GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION Dagenham Murder: Brutal Killing of PC George Clark 1846 The full series in order is Crocodile on the Sandbank, Curse of the Pharaohs, by Linda Rhodes et al Mummy Case, Lion in the Valley, Deeds of the Disturber, Last Camel Died at Tp 45.00 (approx) S/o only. Noon, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Do, Hippopotamus Pool, Seeing a Large Cat, The Ape Who Guards the Balance, The Falcon at the Portal, Thunder in the NEW BLOOD DAGGER Sky, Lord of the Silent, Golden One, Children of the Storm and Guardian of the Still Life by Louise Penny (Pb 19.95) Horizon (Pb 21.95 ea). CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER Elmore Leonard - Peter 2 Modern Crime Lori AVOCATO Mark BILLINGHAM Deep Sea Dead Lifeless 464pp Pb 19.95 Jake ARNOTT 297pp Pb 16.95 Johnny Come Home Tom Thorne #5. To his friends, his 278pp Tp 32.95 A Pauline Sokol Mystery. A confirmed foes and even to himself, it looks as landlubber, PI Pauline Sokol has never though Tom Thorne’s career is on the It’s 1972 and as the dreams of the heard the call of the sea - or if she has, she skids. On his last case, he seriously over- 60s give way to anger and didn’t pay attention. But now the former stepped the mark. Gardening leave has political unrest, the charismatic RN is donning her nurse’s whites once been suggested and all he has to tend is a anarchist Declan O’Connell commits more to go undercover as part of the window box. So when it appears suicide, leaving his boyfriend Pearson medical team of the Golden Dolphin - a someone is targeting London’s homeless and fellow squatter Nina to try to make lavish luxury liner that is setting sail for community, it seems perfectly natural for sense of what happened. Enter ‘Sweet Bermuda. There’s something fishy going Thorne to take a step nearer the gutter Thing’, a streetwise rent boy, who has an on aboard the super-deluxe dinghy and and go undercover among them. He uncanny hold over glam rock star Johnny it’s Pauline’s job to be the ship’s blends into the sometimes invisible Chrome; and in the designated secret snoop. But when a dead community easily - too easily perhaps - wings lurks DS body turns up (in her cabin, no less!) and but the information he gleans quickly Walker of the Bomb another nurse goes missing, Pauline proves that this is no random killer; it is Squad, who knows realises she may be over her head in someone with a very distinct purpose and more about shark-infested waters. (American) a very specific list of victims. But the team O’Connell than supporting Thorne from the outside don’t anyone suspects. The Robert BAER have the key as to motive or identity. course of all their Blow the House Down (English) lives is about to 297pp Tp 32.95 change forever – for Former CIA operative Baer pushes fiction Tim BINDING better and for worse. to the limit in this riveting and Man Overboard 244pp Pb 22.95 (English) unnervingly plausible alternative history Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb became of 9/11. (American) renowned during the WWII for his Colin BATEMAN amazing feats of underwater daring. After KEY Belfast Confidential 500pp Pb 19.95 the war, he was celebrated for embodying academic They say moving house is one of the a particular English ideal - a love for King most stressful things you can do. Well, as and Country - that seemed to be dying out. banking far as Dan Starkey is concerned, ‘they’ can Then, in 1956, during a visit to Britain by stick it because right now helping his wife Nikita Khrushchev, who had arrived by canine detectives with the unpacking is the least of his ship, Commander Crabb disappeared. worries. No sooner has Dan moved into Some thought he perished while clerical his new Belfast home, his best mate, attempting to inspect the Soviet vessel, Mouse, is murdered, leaving him to catch others that he had been kidnapped and cosy/malice domestic a killer, become editor of the obscenely forced to work for the USSR. Out of this successful scandal magazine, Belfast mystery, the author spins a wondrous culinary/food Confidential, and compile its much- piece of fiction. (English) coveted Power List edition. (Irish) William BRODERICK fbi Madison Smartt BELL Gardens of the Dead Straight Cut 253pp Pb 16.95 336pp Tp 29.95 feline detectives A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman Father Anslem #2. In The Sixth Lamentation (Pb 22.95), Broderick intro- forensic goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy duced Father Anslem, the barrister- turned-monk who found himself plunged horse racing mystery finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting into the tangled history of occupied Paris. medical for him - deadly Now Father Anslem is brought back to his surprises that lead him own past at the Bar, and someone else’s military on a desperate chase secrets. Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost across Europe into the faith in the legal system to which she has native american hands of a pair of given her life. In an attempt to restore it, brutal drug smugglers she has secretly devised a scheme to bring police procedural and back to New York a guilty man back to court - Graham Riley, City, where the whom she successfully defended 10 years political/legal greatest betrayal of all previously. As part of an elaborate contin- awaits... 1986 gency plan, Elizabeth leaves the unsus- psychological (American) pecting Anslem with a key to a safety deposit box, to be opened in the event of private eye her death. Three weeks later, she is found dead in the East End of London. Once the romantic suspense box is opened, a chain of events is trig- gered as if from beyond the grave, and sport Anslem is led to fulfil what Elizabeth has begun. (English) spy

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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 C J BOX Christopher BROOKMYRE Martina COLE Out of Range 307pp Pb 18.95 All Fun and Games Until Someone The Take 661pp Pb 19.95 Joe Pickett Novel Loses an Eye 416pp Pb 22.95 Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the #5. Joe is attempting As a teenager, Jane Bell dreamt of playing underworld when he gets out of prison. to enjoy - all right, in the casinos of Monte Carlo in the He’s done his time, made the right survive - his mother- company of James Bond, but in her punk connections and now he’s ready to use in-law’s wedding to a phase, she’d got herself pregnant and, by them. His wife Jackie just wants her local big-shot rancher the time she reaches 46, she’s a husband home, but she’s forgotten the when he receives grandmother, her dreams as dry as the rows, the violence and the girls Freddie some disturbing dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall can’t leave alone. Bitter, resentful and news: Will Jensen, a carpet every day. Then her son Ross, a increasingly unstable, Jackie watches her fellow Wyoming researcher working for an arms life crumble, while her little sister game warden and a manufacturer in Switzerland, is forced to Maggie’s star rises. In love with Freddie’s good friend, has disappear before some characters cut cousin Jimmy, Maggie is determined not killed himself. And Joe has been picked to from the same cloth as Blofeld persuade to end up like her sister. Families should temporarily run Jensen’s Teton district. him to part with the secrets of his stick together, but behind closed doors, The closer Joe comes to the truth about research. But they’re not the only ones jealousy and betrayal can fester until Will’s death, the more his own life spirals desperate to locate him. A team of everyone’s life is infected. And for the out of control, and he realises that if he’s security experts is hired by Ross’s firm: Jacksons, loyalty cannot win out, because not careful, he may end up as Jackson’s headed by the enigmatic Bett, his staff in their world, you can trust no one. next victim. (American) have little in common apart from total Everyone is on the take. (English) Joan BRADY professionalism and a thorough Jennifer COLT Bleedout 471pp Pb 19.95 disregard for the law. Bett believes the The Mangler of Malibu Canyon Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight, key to Ross’s whereabouts is his mother, 367pp Tp 27.00 he was invincible. But late one night, in and in one respect he’s right, but even he Twin sisters Kerry and Terry McAfee are the library of the elite law firm that bears is taken aback by the verve underlying well on their way to becoming LA’s most his name, he was beaten to death. The her determination to secure her son’s notorious PIs. With their bright red hair, obvious suspect is David Marion, a safety as she learns the black arts of quiet canine sidekicks and preferred mode of convicted killer from the inner city. subterfuge and violent attack. (English) transportation - a hot-pink Harley - the Hugh, the scion of the richest and most Sandra BROWN girls are quickly getting a reputation for influential family in Springfield, Illinois, Chill Factor 588pp Pb 19.95 more than just sleuthing skills. So after had orchestrated David’s release from Five women are missing from the nabbing the Butcher of Beverly Hills, they prison and outraged his family and sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North decide to take some time off and lay low friends by making the young man his Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left for a while. But their rich Aunt Reba calls protégé. Now, in the eyes of Hugh’s near where each woman was last seen. with the news that she’s found a circle, David’s criminal past fits him Lilly Martin has returned to Cleary to close decapitated body in her new Malibu perfectly for the murderer’s role. It makes the sale of her cabin. But when her car beach house. Kerry insists they call the no sense for David to have killed his skids and strikes a stranger, Ben Tierney, police, partly because she hopes to catch a teacher, liberator and friend. But, if he as he emerges from the woods, they have glimpse of her former flame, the hunky didn’t, who did? (American) no choice but to wait out a brutal blizzard Detective John Boatwright. But no sooner Kathy BRANDT in the cabin. And as the hours of their con- do the cops begin investigating than Reba Under Pressure finement mount, Lilly wonders if the and the girls are shocked by the arrival of 259pp Pb 16.95 greater threat to her safety isn’t the storm, their Cousin Robert, carrying a blonde- Underwater but the stranger beside her... (American) haired head in a mesh bag, and with no Investigation #4. At D W BUFFA memory of where he’s been. (American) 9:32 on a tropical Trial by Fire 324pp Pb 19.95 Brian COOPER morning, a ‘puddle Pastor and fireman Nick Foster Out with the Tide jumper’ takes off into found the body in the inferno engulfing 238pp Hb 49.95 the skies over his church. From the bullet wound in the Norfolk, January 1953. In the aftermath of Tortola. At 9:39, not head, it’s clear this is no ordinary fire the Great Storm that left many towns and far from Detective victim. The quiet community of villages flooded, ex-detective John Hannah Sampson’s Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the Lubbock and his friend and protégé Chief boat, it nose-dives dead man’s identity, struggles with the Inspector Mike Tench find themselves into the water. Only agonising question: Who did it - and investigating a double murder. Valerie moments later, why? (American) Kingham has been found naked in a Hannah and her partner are 60 feet below Agatha CHRISTIE dinghy, a bullet hole in her forehead. A the surface, vying with reef sharks for Agatha Christie Years: couple of days later, her husband is survivors. Soon Hannah plunges into an 1950s Omnibus discovered dead at the foot of an old investigation. Was one of the passengers 756pp Tp 39.95 tower. There is no shortage of suspects - a target? Who would want to kill a A brand new omnibus, bringing together Valerie was having an affair with a local planeload of Caribbean tourists? Every all four stand-alone novels Christie wrote man, Giles Meredith, whose own wife had lead turns out to be a dead end. And as in the 1950s - They Came to Baghdad, admitted to wanting to kill Valerie. Then Hannah copes with a 9-year-old survivor, Destination Unknown, Ordeal by there was the incident revolving around a shady suspect, a shaky relationship and Innocence and The Pale Horse. (English) Kingham’s career in India prior to his an approaching hurricane, she finds At Bertram’s Hotel arrival in Norfolk, where he was charged herself getting in too deep.... (American) 255pp Hb 30.00 with the murder of a Hindu servant. The A facsimile first edition hardback truth, when it finally emerges, is very featuring Miss Marple. 1965 (English) different from what Lubbock and Tench expect it to be. (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Barbara D’AMATO Kate ELLIS Jeffrey FORD Death of a Thousand Cuts The Merchant’s House The Girl in the Glass 386pp Pb 18.95 246pp Pb 19.95 281pp Pb 29.95 The Hawthorne House was once known Wesley Peterson Mystery #1. Detective The Great Depression has bound a nation for its remarkable success rate with Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) in despair and only a privileged few have autistic children. Now, 15 years after it Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy closed, former residents have returned to from the lively, but frantic, pace of and the hucksters who feed upon them. Hawthorne House for a reunion. But the London to the bucolic river port of Diego, a 17-year-old illegal Mexican gala event turns into a bloody nightmare Tradmouth would have a beneficial effect immigrant, owes his salvation to master when the House’s revered founder, Dr on both his personal and professional grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Jay Schermerhorn, is found tortured to lives. But his first day on the job has Schell’s gruff and powerful partner, they death in the mansion’s basement… hardly begun before he finds himself sail comfortably through hard times, (American) heading an investigation into the murder scamming New York’s grieving rich with Diana DIAMOND of an unidentified young woman whose elaborate, ingeniously staged séances. Stepmother 375pp Pb 16.95 face has been brutally disfigured. It’s not Then an impossible occurrence changes 65-year-old multi-millionaire long before Wes discovers that the everything. (American) Steven Armstrong tells his three children Tradmouth force is as hopelessly Karin FOSSUM he is going to re-marry. But his new bride overstretched as London’s Met. In Calling Out for You is not the stepmother they have in mind. addition to the unidentified murder 387pp Pb 19.95 Charlene ‘Charlie’ Hendricks is his victim, the local police have been Gunder Jomann thinks his life has been vivacious, 35-year-old personal trainer, embroiled in a frantic search for a missing made complete when he returns from a the single-mother of a teenage daughter. child. 1998 (English) trip to India, a married man. But on the To Steven’s mid-life children, she is Janet EVANOVICH day his Indian bride is due to join him, nothing but a gold digger. Days before Eleven on Top 371pp Pb 19.95 she vanishes. Then the town is shocked the wedding, Charlie goes for a swim in Trouble seems to find Stephanie by the news of an Indian woman found the Atlantic Ocean, training for a everywhere she goes. Once again, she’s bludgeoned to death in a nearby triathlon. Out of nowhere, a mysterious struggling with her tangled love life, meadow. Inspector Sejer and his figure on a jet ski shows up and makes an chaotic family and God-given gift for colleague Skarre head the murder attempt on her life. The children head the destroying every car she drives. This inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk list of suspects, but which one? time, Plum has decided to quit her job as and planting seeds of suspicion in a (American) a bounty hunter. She’s tired of creeps, community that has always believed Gary DISHER weirdos and stalkers. But just when she itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For Dragon Man 282pp Pb 22.95 thinks she’s out, they pull her back in! So what can only have been an Hal Challis #1. It’s a scorching hot fasten you seatbelt and hang on – unpremeditated and motiveless act of summer on the Mornington Peninsula Stephanie is back in town. (American) violence, everyone is guilty until proven and the police are preparing for the usual Monica FERRIS innocent. (Norwegian) holiday madness. But this time it’s not Embroidered Truths Nicci FRENCH just petty theft and joyriding kids. There’s 288pp Pb 16.95 Catch Me When I Fall a killer on the old Peninsula Highway Needlecraft Mystery #9. After her friend 297pp Pb 19.95 and women alone are not safe. DI Hal Godwin is arrested for the murder of his Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane. A Challis is up against it. 1999 (Australian) boyfriend, Betsy sets out to prove him successful young businesswoman with a Carole Nelson DOUGLAS innocent. She finds that the victim had stable home life, she is loved and admired Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit some dishonest dealings that made him a by all who meet her. But that’s only one 442pp Pb 16.95 lot of money, and a lot of enemies. Now side of Holly. The other sees her take Midnight Louis Mystery. Betsy has to untangle a cat’s cradle of lies regular walks on the wild side, where she What’s a girl to do when if she’s going to save Godwin before the makes ever more reckless mistakes and she’s forced to be, well, a murderer decides to cut off any loose her life starts to spiral out of control. She girl? That’s what’s ends for good. (American) thinks she is being stalked and that hotshot freelance PR Joseph FINDER someone is demanding money from her. lady and amateur No Hiding Place (AKA Company Man) Threats lurk around every corner and detective Temple Barr 584pp Pb 19.95 those closest to Holly are running out of has to do when, as a Nick Conover, the son of a factory patience. But is she alone responsible for favour to top cop worker, is the CEO of a major corporation what’s happening? Are her fears just the Carmen Molina, she in a company town. Once the most paranoia of an illness or intimations of goes undercover at Teen Queen, the admired man in Fenwick, Michigan, he very real danger? (English) newest pop star reality TV show, all in has recently presided over massive Ed GAFFNEY the hopes of protecting Molina’s 13-year- layoffs and is now the most despised. A Suffering Fools 289pp Pb 16.95 old daughter. It’s no picnic trying to be a single parent since the recent death of his Attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry teenager again, even after a punk wife, he struggles to insulate his 10-year- Tallach – friends, partners, and complete makeover. To make matters worse, old daughter and angry, 16-year-old son opposites – have perfected the recipe for Temple is in danger of being uncovered from the town’s hostility. Then his family legal disaster. Begin with a fool for a by the show’s celebrity judges, including is threatened by a nameless stalker, client (a man who can’t testify her romance novelist aunt and arch- events spin quickly out of control and convincingly to his own name, much less enemy, Crawford Buchanan. And just to suddenly Nick is faced with a dead body to an alibi), add a couple of determined make life more interesting, there are her and damning circumstances. (American) private investigators, then top up with a fellow contestants, unnatural blondes brave, beautiful police detective whose aplenty who are all too willing to work only confirms that your client is sabotage and backstab their way to the impossible to defend. Then go to trial. top. (American) (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Tess GERRITSEN Denise HAMILTON Georgette HEYER Life Support 470pp Pb 19.95 Savage Garden 323pp Tp 29.95 Blunt Instrument This bestselling author weaves LA Times reporter Eve Diamond has 293pp Pb 22.95 utter medical authenticity into a novel of been looking forward to a theatre date When Ernest Fletcher is found gripping suspense, as a young doctor with her new man, Silvio Aguilar. But bludgeoned to death in his study, probes too quickly into the sudden when the play’s beautiful and notoriously everyone is shocked and mystified: disappearance of a critically ill patient. unstable lead actress, Catarina Velosi, fails Ernest was well-liked and respected, so 1997 (American) to appear, Eve learns that Silvio and the who would have a motive for killing him? Edwina GREY missing woman share a complicated past. Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, Prismatic 362pp Pb 19.95 A messy scene at Catarina’s house with consummate skill, begins to uncover In Sydney, the past lies close to the suggests she may have been abducted - or the complexities of Fletcher’s life. It seems surface. History student Jacqueline worse. When it becomes clear that Silvio is the real Fletcher was far from the Cooper is about to find out that not no stranger to the actress’s home, or her gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in everything buried is dead. Two bodies bed, Eve must stifle her own feelings of fact, no shortage of people who wanted bricked up in an old cellar, and a cache of betrayal, and fight to clear his name. She him dead. Then a second murder is mysterious old papers, lead her on a knows Silvio is innocent, doesn’t she? committed, with striking similarities to journey into a mysterious past. In 1919, (American) the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very Sydney is in the grip of the Spanish Flu, John HARVEY unusual case. 1938 (English) and perhaps something worse. Further Darkness and Light Linda HOWARD back, in 1789, the tiny settlement hangs by 357pp Tp 32.95 Killing Time 330pp Pb 19.95 a thread amidst starvation and smallpox, Frank Elder #3. In 1985, with much fanfare, a time and seems beset by the forces of evil. Former cop Frank capsule was buried under the front lawn When Jackie discovers the papers have Elder is once more of a small-town county courthouse, to be been stolen and her flatmate – gone drawn out of reopened in 2085. But just 20 years later, inexplicably insane – nearly kills her, she retirement by a in the dead of night, the capsule is dug knows the history lesson just got real. phone call from his up, its contents stolen. That same night, (Australian) ex-wife, this time one of the contributors to the capsule is Allan GUTHRIE asking him to look brutally slain in his home – with no sign Kiss Her Goodbye 236pp Pb 19.95 into the of forced entry or any indication of a When people in disappearance in struggle. One by one, others who had Edinburgh need to Nottingham of her placed items in the time capsule are borrow money, they friend Jennie’s murdered. Besides his suspicions about go to Cooper. When older, widowed sister Claire. Elder the sudden, mysterious appearance of they don’t pay it back, reluctantly agrees to return to the city Nikita Stover, the chief investigator, Knox they get a visit from where his family disintegrated. Elder Davis, has absolutely no leads. And while Joe Hope. Now Joe soon uncovers sexual secrets of Claire’s Nikita’s no murderer, she seems to be has troubles of his that take Jennie by surprise. But when hiding plenty of secrets. (American) own. His teenage Claire is found dead at home, unmarked Elisabeth HYDE daughter has been and carefully dressed, it is Elder who is The Abortionist’s Daughter found dead, an surprised by the similarities to an old 285pp Tp 32.95 apparent suicide. Then the police arrest case. To solve the riddle, Elder has to re- Two weeks before Christmas, Diana him for murder. But for once, Joe is partner with another person from his Duprey, an outspoken abortion doctor, is innocent. With help from Scotland’s past, DI Maureen Prior, and delve into found floating in her pool, a bruise the hardest men - and one woman - he sets several suspects’ own traumatic histories. size of a golf ball visible through her dark out to discover who framed him and to (English) curls. A national figure, Diana inspired deliver his own brutal brand of justice. Ronnie HEWITT passion and ignited tempers, never more (Scottish) The Sawman 331pp Tp 23.00 so than on the day of her death. Her Allan GUTHRIE This is a dark, moody psychological husband, Frank, an attorney in the DA’s Two Way Split 204pp Pb 15.95 thriller. The author has created a office for more than 20 years, had fought Robin Greaves is an armed robber fascinating new character to add to the bitterly with her on the day of her whose professionalism is put to the test pantheon of great detectives and crime- murder. Yet to reveal the nature of their when he discovers his wife has been solvers: Rob Ahearn, a criminal fight would cost him not only his career, sleeping with a fellow gang member. psychologist and profiler whose unique but something even greater - a Greaves plans the ultimate revenge, but ‘gift’ enables him to identify perpetrators relationship he will go to any lengths to things go from bad to worse when the even when there is apparently no protect. (American) gang bungles a post office robbery, evidence of their crime. In the case of ‘The leaving carnage in Sawman’, Ahearn discovers that the their wake. victims of the gruesome murders are even Suddenly they are more evil than the perpetrator and he stalked by the finds himself deliberating whether the police, sleazy murders are in society’s best interest. As private eyes and a he wrestles with this moral dilemma and cold-blooded killer, relives each shocking death, his struggle who may be the to find the answer almost unhinges him. only one not (English) looking for a cut of the money. (Scottish)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Greg ILES Jack KERLEY Danny KING Blood Memory 494pp Pb 19.95 The Death Collectors Milo’s Run 247pp Pb 19.95 Forensic expert ‘Cat’ Ferry is 527pp Pb 20.00 Petty thief Darren Mile has finally suspended from an FBI task force when A terrifying new serial-killer thriller scored some real money: a hundred the world-class odontologist is featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the grand in used notes, and it’s all tax-free. inexplicably stricken with panic attacks bestselling The Hundredth Man (Pb But if he ever hopes to spend a penny of and blackouts while investigating a chain 18.95). 30 years after his death, Marsden it, he’d better shake off the angry cops of brutal murders. Returning to her Hexcamp’s ‘Art of the Final Moment’ who are in hot pursuit and more than a Mississippi home town, Cat finds herself remains as sought after as ever. But this is little curious as to how he got hold of it. battling with alcohol, plagued by no ordinary collection. Hexcamp’s Milo and his partners-in-crime, Goody nightmares and entangled with a married portfolio was completed with the aid of a and Patsy, have a 30-second head-start, a detective. Then, in her childhood devoted band of acolytes, as well as half a stolen motor and absolutely no idea bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal dozen victims, each of whom was slowly where they’re going. All they know is: two bloody footprints... and the trauma of tortured to death so their final agonies they have to get as far away as humanly her father’s murder years earlier comes could be distilled into art. When tiny possible, by any means possible, and they flooding back. (American) scraps of Hexcamp’s ‘art’ begin appearing can’t stop - not even for a second. Arnaldur INDRIDASON at murder scenes alongside gruesomely (English) Silence of the Grave displayed corpses, Detective Carson J A KONRATH 290pp Pb 21.95 Ryder and his partner Harry Nautilus Bloody Mary 338pp Pb 16.95 Downtrodden detective Erlendur and his must go back three decades in search of Jack Daniels Mystery #2. Like team must once again investigate answers. (American) Whiskey Sour (Pb 17.95), this novel offers Reykjavík’s hidden past to unravel a case Raymond KHOURY a heady mix of humour and tension. This of human nastiness. Alive with tension The Last Templar 545pp Pb 19.95 time, Jacqueline Daniels (Jack) and her and atmosphere and disturbingly real, 1291 AD, Acre. partner Herb work to end the career of a this is an outstanding continuation of the As the city burns nasty serial killer, while also dealing with Reykjavík Murder Mysteries. (Icelandic) under the onslaught Herb’s amusing midlife crisis and Jack’s Matti JOENSUU of the Sultan’s men, psycho cat, Mr Friskers. (American) The Priest of Evil the Falcon Temple Roberta KRAY 204pp Tp 27.95 sets sail, carrying a Debt 351pp Pb 19.95 There have been a strange succession of small band of knights An anonymous phone call was all it deaths at the Helsinki tube stations. The and a mysterious took to alert the police to a body at The police are baffled: there are no witnesses chest entrusted to Palace. Now, 18 years later, Johnny Frank and the CCTV tapes show nothing. them by the Order’s is coming out of jail with only one thing Detective Sargeant Timo Harjunpaa of Grand Master. But on his mind - to kill the man who put him the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit has seen the ship vanishes without a trace... there. But first he’s going to make him more than his fair share of the seamier Present day New York. At the suffer. Jim Buckley has got everything side of human nature, but the forces of Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen that Johnny doesn’t: a marriage, kids, a evil have never before crossed his path. It dressed as Knights Templar storm the future. Moving in on his life, Johnny emerges that his adversary is a deluded, gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican subtly begins to spread rumour and but dangerous, character living in an treasures and, in a brutal and bloody suspicion. Dividing husband and wife, underground bunker in the middle of an attack, steal an arcane medieval decoder. father and son, he sets about his intention uninhabited Helsinki hillside. (Finnish) For FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeolo- of destroying the family from inside out. Morag JOSS gist Tess Chaykin, this is just the start of a But his plans soon go dramatically awry. Puccini’s Ghosts 389pp Pb 19.95 deadly game of cat and mouse as they As the past returns to haunt him, a It is the summer of race across three continents to solve a cen- vicious murder and kidnap force him 1960 and 15-year- turies-old mystery and track down the back on to the streets of London. He could old Lila’s life is about ruthless killers... (English) choose to disappear if it wasn’t for to change forever. Set Diana KILLIAN Simone. Buckley’s provocative daughter- free from the Sonnet of the Sphinx in-law has got under his skin, and with confines of school, 325pp Pb 14.95 her husband’s life in the balance, it seems her new prison is the A Poetic Death Mystery. For one of she may be willing to do just about small, unremarkable Innisdale’s residents, a priceless sonnet anything to persuade Johnny to help her... town of Bumhead on means poetic licence to kill… Grace (English) the west coast of Hollister’s stay in England’s picturesque William LASHNER Scotland. She dreams Lake District has proven doubly fruitful - Falls the Shadow of escape: from Bumhead, from the damp, the American literary scholar just sold her 516pp Pb 19.95 from her mother’s hysterics, her father’s first book and her romance with A beautiful young woman is dead, her stolidity, and her parents’ loveless charming antiques dealer and ex-jewel husband convicted of the murder. In marriage. Salvation arrives in the form of thief Peter Fox has begun a new chapter. seeking a new trial for the husband, DA her beloved Uncle George, a music teacher Sorting through a hoard of papers found Victor Carl must confront not only a from London who decides to stage an in an old farmhouse, Grace and Peter determined prosecutor and a police amateur production of Puccini’s Turandot. discover an old letter that refers to a lost detective who might have set up his Lila, in love for the first time, maps out a Shelley sonnet, Sate the Sphinx. But before client, but also a strange little busybody future for herself in which reality and Grace can start tracking down this poetic named Bob. Bob has the aspiration, one fantasy fuse to form a dangerous mixture, treasure, Peter’s shady past rears its head could even say compulsion, to help those threatening to destroy herself and all those - a particularly ugly head, belonging to a around him. It usually works out well for around her. (Scottish) menacing Turk who is eager to see Peter all concerned, except when it ends in dead. (American) blood. But Victor doesn’t know that… yet. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Martin LIVINGS Adrian MATHEWS D R MEREDITH Carnies 322pp Pb 19.95 The Apothecary’s House Murder by the Book The small south-west Australian town 706pp Pb 22.95 244pp Pb 16.95 of Tillbrrok has a secret, one that has been When an old Murder by the Yard Mystery #5. When a kept for over 100 years. The Dervish woman storms into client is accused of murder, Lara’s Carnival is run by people who are neither the Rijks Museum investigation leads her to the Orkney human nor animal, but live in the woods demanding the Islands off the northeast coast of Scotland, and howl at night... (Australian) return of her where she is pulled into a centuries-old Gabrielle LORD painting, archivist Viking saga and a troubling quest that Dirty Weekend 540pp Pb 19.95 Ruth Braams cannot could end in danger - and rewrite history. An early-morning phone call shat- quell her curiosity. Librarian Megan Clark discovers a series ters Jack McCain’s sleep. 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A chance for writer, joins the Chichester Writer’s sinister anonymous threats, warning her Martin and Lydia Napier to repair their Circle, despite fears he will be shunned to stay away from Lydia, and the faltering marriage. A time-out with their by literary snobs. Instead, he finds him- painting. As the threats escalate, Ruth young daughter Ami from a pressured self plunged into the midst of a circle of realises that there must be far more to the city life. It should have been ... But the murder victims and murder suspects - painting’s popularity, and she enters into brutal power of nature means a drastic including himself. Inspector Henrietta a series of increasingly lethal adventures change of plans for the Napier family Mallin is the investigator in charge of the as she investigates its secret symbolism. when they’re forced to flee rising case and, with Bob’s help (and despite (English) floodwaters. 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To the horror of boys at the Precinct always seem to be heroic past and a even the most experienced cops on the one step behind the killer, and are unable troubled conscience. job, all the details point to a ritualistic to prevent the death toll rising. The On tour in the Gulf, murder - a serial killer. Then 24 hours trouble is, while the gun is the same, none ‘Fade’ is involved in a later, another child goes missing… of the victims seem to be related in any street incident and (Scottish) way. And why is the killer heard to shot, and it takes his introduce himself as ‘Chuck’ before Pat MACENULTY team six months to pumping two bullets into their bodies? Time to Say Goodbye find him and get him (American) 277pp Pb 22.95 out. When they do, When a motel maid Iain McDOWALL it’s to discover a bullet lodged next to his in Galnesville, Killing for England spine. Expensive, experimental surgery Florida is brutally 305pp Pb 19.95 would be able to get the bullet out, but the murdered, Detective Jacobson & Kerr Mystery #4. Chief US Government decides it’s not included Rodney Eills Inspector Jacobson and DS Kerr had been in his healthcare insurance and washes believes the crime on leave when the body of a young black their hands of him. Two years later, Matt may be linked to man, Darren McGee, had been fished out Egan is brought in under the Homeland three 25-year-old of the River Crow. The autopsy had Security umbrella to help create a division murders. Then pointed to suicide by drowning. But now that will ensure the safety of America’s another woman Darren’s cousin, Paul Shaw, is in town: a citizens. They need a man on the team disappears and Eills top-notch investigative journalist with an with an Arab background and Fade fits the discovers a axe to grind and a claim that Darren had bill. It’s Egan’s job to bring him back into connection that his superiors don’t want really been the victim of a racially-moti- the game, whatever his doubts. But Fade is him to pursue. Working on his own time, vated murder. Jacobson isn’t convinced. holding a grudge, and he’s a man with he follows a lead to a realtor in North But when Paul Shaw turns up as dead nothing to lose. (American) Carolina. Another kidnapping takes him and as terminally-wet as his cousin, back to Florida and into the eye of a Jacobson and Kerr are faced with a baf- hurricane, where he must battle the fling double-murder to investigate. elements to save lives. (American) (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 REGGIE NADELSON’S Lisa MISCIONE Twice 374pp Pb 16.95 ARTIE COHEN Lydia Strong Thriller #3. Julian Ross, a brilliant and acclaimed Presenting Artie Cohen, Nadelson’s street-smart, New York City artist, has been charged with brutally killing her second good-looking New York cop, with a cast of characters husband. She was found at the scene, hysterical, over his bloody, lifeless including Artie’s glamorous girl Lily Hanes and his gnarly corpse. She maintains her innocence, but the cops are having trouble superior Sonny Lippert. believing her: 10 years ago, Julian was indicted and acquitted of murdering her first husband in exactly the same way. It’s up to Lydia Red Mercury Blues 378pp Pb 19.95 and her partner, P I Jeff Mark, to clear Julian’s name. (American) Artie Cohen #1. Originally from Russia, Artie has a taste for girls and jazz... and a secret past. He has scarcely Dreda Say MITCHELL Running Hot 303pp Pb 27.95 returned from a month’s leave, amid thoughts of quitting, when he becomes involved with a case that What’s the best thing about Hackney? The bus outta here! And drags him painfully back into that past. His that’s exactly where Elijah ‘Schoolboy’ Campbell needs to be in a week’s investigations take him first into the heart of the Brighton time, heading out of London’s underworld. He’s taking a great offer to Beach Russian mafia, then deeper into the terrifying leave it all behind and start a new life, but the problem is, he’s got no world of atomic smuggling and the secrets of the lethal, spare cash. The possibility of lining his pockets becomes real when he but elusive, substance known as Red Mercury. 1995 stumbles across a mobile phone. But it’s marked property, and the Street won’t care that he found it by accident. The Street won’t care that Hot Poppies 360pp Pb 19.95 the phone is his last chance to change his life. And he can’t give it back Artie Cohen #2. A murder in New York’s diamond because the door to redemption is only open for seven days. (English) district; a plastic bag of irradiated heroin lying on the Joanne PENCE mantelpiece in an empty apartment; a fire in a sweatshop Cooks Overboard 287pp Pb 16.95 in the city’s swarming Chinatown; the worst blizzard in New York history… These events conspire to bring ex- An Angie Amalfii Mystery. Food writer and culinary entrepreneur cop Artie Cohen out of retirement and back into an Angie Amalfi imagined it would be heaven aboard the cruise ship obsessive world of murder and politics that once nearly bound for Acapulco with her homicide detective boyfriend, Paavo killed him. 1997 Smith. With no crowds or pending police business, it might even provide Paavo with the perfect opportunity to propose. But her Love Bloody London 424pp Pb 19.95 Boat fantasy starts springing leaks almost immediately, beginning with Artie Cohen #3. Artie, quitting his contented new life as a the cook’s bizarre attempt to jump ship in the middle of the ocean! But low-risk PI, finds himself in London, where the plot it’s not until she offers to help out in the galley, and murder is abruptly uncoils with a series of murders, a heartbreaking added to the menu, that Angie finds herself heading into dangerous encounter with his longtime girlfriend, Lily Hanes, and a waters indeed. 1998 (American) meeting with a figure right out of Artie’s Russian past. Otto PENZLER (ed) “Perfidious Albion, anybody’s for a price,” Artie’s father Murder in the Rough 393pp Pb 29.95 always said. But Artie finds London surprising, exciting, a city high on itself, the markets cranked up - a place Lawrence Block, Simon Brett, HRF Keating, Ian Rankin and many ready to blow or sink when a millennial flood threatens others deliver up an ace anthology of original short stories that mix to sweep it all away, and the rust on the windows in the murder and mystery on the fairway. (American) riverside warehouses runs red in the rain. 1999 Anne PERRY Skin Trade (AKA Sex Dolls) 362pp Pb 19.95 Angels in the Gloom 375pp Pb 19.95 Artie Cohen #4. Artie’s long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes, World War I Mystery #3. March 1916. Joseph Reavley is on sick has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an leave, finding recovery slow and hard. His sister Hannah is caring for empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, him at home and it’s a delight to them both when Shanley Corcoran, an Artie looks for Lily’s attackers and finds himself drawn old friend, comes to visit. Corcoran confides in Joseph that he’s come into a web of sex, death and deceit. Artie follows the trail very close to completing an invention that will paralyse the deadly from Paris across Europe to Vienna, then finally back to German U-boats. Soon afterwards, the leading scientist on that project his native New York on a roller-coaster ride from which is found murdered and it’s clear that someone has been betraying there is no return ticket…. 2001 secrets to the enemy. Joseph’s brother Matthew, of the SIS, comes down to investigate and together they embark on a search to solve the crime Disturbed Earth 320pp Pb 19.95 and lead them to the spy. (Scottish) Artie Cohen #5. This novel is set between downtown Chris PETIT Manhattan, where Artie lives - an area still traumatised The Passenger 386pp Tp 29.95 by the loss of the Twin towers - and coastal Brooklyn. The plot concerns the killing of one child and the James Collard and his son Nick are flying from Frankfurt to New York abduction of another, and the subsequent outbreak of for Christmas in 1988. Collard (in part because of a last-minute work fear. 2004 meeting, in part because a strange old man told him not to get on the plane) gets off in London. Later that night, he learns the plane exploded Red Hook 389pp Pb 19.95 over Lockerbie. Initially concerned to discover whether his son made the Artie Cohen #6. Artie has just married Maxine and is flight, Collard gets dragged into the mystery of who put the bomb on the about to take time out of the city with her when two plane, and whether a legendary old spook called James Jesus Angleton - events pull him back - the apparent murder of a friend who died three years before - was somehow involved. (English) and the appearance of his former girlfriend, Lily, their Henry PORTER break-up never fully resolved. 2005 (American) Brandenburg 553pp Pb 19.95 Fresh Kills 343pp Tp 32.95 The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink of Artie Cohen #7. Artie is alone in Manhattan when his collapse. Even the Stasi, one of the most formidable intelligence agencies nephew Billy is released from the young offenders’ of all time, can’t stop the rebellion that ends in the fall of the Berlin Wall. institution where he has been since he stabbed a man to Dr Rudi Rosenharte is an academic from Dresden and an agent for MI6. death. But Billy is not the scarred child-victim portrayed He faces a stark choice when his security is compromised. Should he by the press and in the weekend that follows his return, jump ship and defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the Artie is swept into a case that faces him with some mercies of the Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous terrible choices. 2006 (American) assignment under the Stasi’s suspicious eye? (English)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Malcolm PRYCE Peter ROBINSON James SIEGEL The Unbearable Lightness of Meet Inspector Banks: Gallows View / Detour 420pp Pb 19.95 Being in Aberystwyth A Dedicated Man / Central Park, New York. It was the 259pp Pb 22.95 A Necessary End small girl chasing a pink balloon that had There is nothing unusual about the barrel- 742pp Tp 32.95 given Paul and Joanna the idea to end five organ man who walks into PI Louie Former London policeman Alan Banks years of failing to conceive and to adopt Knight’s office. Apart from the fact that relocated to Yorkshire, seeking some instead. Which is why they are travelling he’s lost his memory. And his monkey is a small measure of peace. Unfortunately, to the Santa Regina orphanage in former astronaut. And he’s carrying a depravity and violence are not unique to Columbia, to meet their new daughter. It suitcase that he’s too terrified to open. And large cities. His new home, the quaint will be a new beginning in their lives. But he wants a murder investigated, a murder little village of Eastdale, seems to have not the new beginning they were that took place 100 years ago. And it needs more than its fair share of malefactors. In expecting. Columbia is a dangerous to be solved within a week. Louie is too this collection of Inspector Banks’ first place, particularly for a foreigner with a smart to take on such a case, but too broke three cases in Yorkshire, Robinson wife and daughter to protect. Captured to turn it down. So he is soon lost in a introduces a detective as brilliant as he is by leftwing militia, Paul is given a task – labyrinth of intrigue and terror, tormented complex. These intricately plotted, gritty he has 18 hours to get a deadly at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns, novels of suspense lay the foundation for consignment to an address in New York. gangsters and waifs, and haunted by the the acclaimed detective series. Robinson He dare not be late. He dare not dial 911. loss of his girlfriend, Myfanwy, who has has been awarded both the CWA Dagger Because if the delivery doesn’t arrive, disappeared after being fed drugged in the Library and the Edgar Award. he’ll never see his newly created family raspberry ripple. (English) (Canadian) ever again. (American) Sarah RAYNE Alan RUSSELL Leslie SILBERT Roots of Evil 584pp Pb 19.95 Political Suicide 371pp Pb 16.95 The Intelligencer Lucy Trent is used to having the Will Travis, an investigator who 336pp Pb 19.95 legend of her disreputable grandmother specialises in small-time jobs (like looking On 30 May 1593, London’s most popular disinterred from time to time. The into employee theft at hotels and bars), playwright was stabbed to death. The infamous silent-screen actress Lucretia falls into a much bigger case when he royal coroner ruled that Christopher von Wolff, whose lovers were legion and unwittingly foils a murder attempt on a Marlowe was killed in self defence, but whose scandals were numerous, died in a politician’s daughter. Sitting in a hotel historians have long suspected otherwise, bizarre double murder and suicide at the bar, he sees a man drop something into a given his role as an ‘intelligencer’ in the Ashwood film studios in 1952. Lucy woman’s drink, then watches as she queen’s secret service. In 16th century rather enjoys Lucretia’s legend, although begins to lose consciousness. Unable to sit London, Marlowe embarks on his final most of the family would prefer it was by and watch, he comes to her rescue, assignment, hoping to find his missing quietly forgotten. But when a body is only to be nearly killed by a hitman out to muse, as well as the culprits behind a found in the now-derelict studios, get her. (American) high-stakes smuggling scheme. In brutalised in a macabre echo of the 50- John SANDFORD present-day New York, grad student year-old case, disturbing facts about the Broken Prey 385pp Pb 18.95 turned PI Kate Morgan is called in on an past begin to emerge. (American) The first corpse is found on a urgent matter. One of her firm’s top Nora ROBERTS riverbank. The second in an isolated clients, a London-based financier, has Blue Smoke 437pp Pb 19.95 farmhouse. Both have been savagely chanced upon a mysterious manuscript The blaze that night at her family’s beaten, the skin flayed from their bodies, that had been buried pizzeria changed young Reena Hale’s life. their throats cut. For both victims, there is for centuries - one Neighbours and relatives would help the a DNA match. Charlie Pope, a convicted that someone, Hales rebuild. The Baltimore authorities sex offender recently released from the somewhere is would arrest the arsonist responsible. But Minnesota Security Hospital, has cut desperate to steal. as Reena beheld the fire’s brutal beauty himself free from his court-imposed ankle What secret lurks in and destructive power, her destiny began bracelet and disappeared. Now all Lucas those yellowed, to take shape. She would understand and Davenport has to do is find him. But ciphered pages? master its terrible force, one day becoming something about this case doesn’t smell And how, so many an investigator herself. But she is not the right. (American) years later, could it only one fascinated by the flames. Zoe SHARP drive someone to Someone else sees their power and is Road Kill 391pp Pb 19.95 kill? (American) obsessed not with conquering the fire, but Charlie Fox Mystery #5. 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With the aid of The more she probes, the more she Parisians with terror. One man has sworn French hunter-killer submarines, the suspects the accident was far from to bring the phantom killer to justice: Prince plans to inflict heavy damage on the accidental. The only way to find out who Inspector Juve, who ventures from dark massive oil installations and loading docks wants her dead is to infiltrate a group of alleys to brilliant salons in his relentless on the shores of the Red Sea and the illegal road racers who appear hell-bent pursuit of the evil genius. 1915. (French) Persian Gulf, thus destroying the Saudi oil on living fast and dying young... industry and bankrupting the monarch. (English) (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Erica SPINDLER Aline TEMPLETON Andrew VACHSS Copycat 412pp Tp 29.95 Darkness and the Deep Two Trains Running Five years ago, three young 391pp Tp 32.95 447pp Tp 32.95 victims were found dead, posed like little The wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat with Non Series. It is 1959 - a moment in history angels. There were no witnesses. the loss of all three of its crew is a hard when the clandestine, powerful forces Strangely clean scenes. The Sleeping blow for the small Scottish town. But it’s that will shape America are about to Angel Killer called his despicable acts harder still when DS Tam MacNee collide. Walker Dett is a hired gun, “the perfect crimes”. The case discovers that it isn’t simply a tragic known for using the most extreme immobilised the close-knit community of accident. Was it just the act of vandals, measures to accomplish his missions. Rockford, Illinois and nearly destroyed bored in a fishing port stricken with Royal Beaumont is the “hillbilly boss” homicide detective Kitt Lundgren’s unemployment? Could it be linked to the who turned Locke City from a dying career - and her life. During the drugs trade which has taken root in the town into a thriving capital of vice. But investigation, Kitt tragically lost her own locality? Or is there someone who, in organised crime outsiders are moving in child to illness. Overwhelmed by the their determination to kill one person, is on Beaumont’s turf, so he reaches out for death of her daughter, the final blow was callous enough to take two innocent Dett in a high-risk move to maintain his the crushing realisation that she had let lives? As DI Marjory Fleming and her power at all costs. Add a rival Irish the killer get away. Now the Sleeping team investigate multiple murders, with a political machine, a deeply entrenched Angel Killer is back... 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As Tom on the attempt to track down their comrade and and his investigator, Joey, delve into the disappearance of discover that Irby was involved in some- mother’s death, an attempt is made on one of a pair of thing sinister and far larger than merely Tom’s life, the state bar threatens disbar- twins, adult scions trying to escape. (English) ment, and he finds himself accused of of a rich, but tragedy-prone, family. The Christopher WHITCOMB murdering a fellow lawyer. With the help missing twin - a charismatic poster-boy White 462pp Pb 18.95 of a beautiful Asian-American psycholo- for irresponsibility - has spent his life America’s gist-turned-jury expert, his search for the daring people to hate him, punishing fiercest enemies truth uncovers a conspiracy of jury-rig- himself endlessly for his screw-ups and infiltrate the nation’s ging beginning at the highest levels of misdeeds. The other twin - Artisan’s highest offices in the government and backed up by cold- client - is dutiful and resentful in equal new high-velocity blooded killers. (American) measure, bewildered that his ‘other half’ thriller by this James SWAIN could have turned out so badly. He has a former FBI agent Deadman’s Bluff more practical reason for wanting his and author of Black 368pp Pb 16.95 brother found: their crazy father, in (Pb 18.95). FBI Tony Valentine Mystery # 6. A blind poker failing health and with guilty secrets of special agent Jeremy player named Skip DeMarco is scamming his own, will not divide the family Waller has one of the the world’s largest poker tournament in fortune until both siblings are accounted world’s most- Las Vegas, and cheating-expert Tony for. In September 2004, just days after wanted terrorist masterminds in his Valentine and his son, Gerry, have been delivering this novel to the publisher, sights when his multi-agency task force is hired to find out how. DeMarco is tied to Gary Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, blown wide open by the arrival of two some dangerously desperate characters which was lost in-flight between Sydney American men. Are they an even more who will go to any extreme – even cold- and Los Angeles. Tragically, he remains top-secret agency whose agenda has blooded murder – to ensure that the missing and is presumed dead. crossed with Waller’s? Or are they the obnoxious DeMarco wins big. (American) (American) most dangerous traitors ever to threaten the future of America? (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 11 Ann GRANGER Candace ROBB CRIME A Rare Interest in Corpses Cruel Courtship 417pp Pb 21.95 310pp Tp 32.95 Margaret Kerr #3. Scotland 1297. AUDIO Lizzie Martin #1. London 1864. Lizzie Passionate, brave and fiercely loyal, Agatha CHRISTIE Martin takes up the post of ‘companion’ Margaret Kerr - a young woman estranged Towards Zero 5 CDs 40.00 to a wealthy widow who is also a slum from her husband - is determined to play A new CD audio edition of Agatha landlord. She is intrigued to learn that her her part in saving Scotland from the ham- Christie’s thriller featuring predecessor disappeared, supposedly mer of Edward Longshanks - King of Superintendent Battle. What is the having run off with an unknown man. 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