“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #279 April 2009

Carolyn HART Death Walked In 304pp Pb $18.95 Death on Demand Mystery #18. Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and says she is afraid. The caller leaves word she has hidden something in the house Max and his wife, Annie, are restoring. When Annie finds out, she hurries to the woman's home, only to discover she's been murdered. Evidence links the dead woman to a fortune in gold coins that has recently gone missing. Was this mysterious woman killed for the coins? The woman's son is accused, but Max believes in his innocence, and Max and Annie plunge wholeheartedly into the investigation. Due Apr (American) “This tight, Agatha Christie-style puzzler will keep readers guessing to the end.” - Publishers Weekly Dan BROWN Angels and Demons 496pp Pb $21.95 Film tie-in edition. (Movie released 14 May). World-renowned Harvard symboligist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyse a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is a deadly vendetta Donna LEON against the Catholic Church by a About Face 320pp Tp $32.95 centuries-old underground organisation - Guido Brunetti #18. At a dinner party, Comissario Brunetti meets the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous businessman and is Vatican from a powerful time bomb, charmed by her love of Virgil and Cicero. A few days later, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Together they embark on a frantic hunt Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs and the most information about the owner of a trucking company who was secretive vault on earth - the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. Due found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is Apr (American) connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more “A breathless, real-time adventure... Exciting, sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police fast-paced, with an unusually high IQ” departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger - San Francisco Chronicle man's paranoid behaviour. Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he Anzac Day himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And Saturday 25 Apr 10am - 5pm why is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in the company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past? Also avail in CD $49.95 Due Apr (American) Easter Hours “A splendid series... with a backdrop of the Good Friday 10 Apr (Public Holiday) Closed Saturday 11 Apr (Public Holiday) 8.30am - 6pm city so vivid you can almost smell it.” Sunday 12 Apr 10am - 5pm - The Sunday Telegraph (London) Monday 13 Apr (Public Holiday) 10am - 5pm 2 Modern Crime Susan Wittig ALBERT M C BEATON Nightshade 304pp Pb $18.95 Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful Peter ABRAHAMS China Bayles Mystery #16. China is of Poison 272pp Pb $17.99 Delusion still reeling from her father’s death and Agatha Raisin #19. 336pp Pb $18.95 has no interest in her half-brother Miles’ Agatha must uncover 20 years ago, Nell Jarreau investigation. When fate forces her to get the truth behind jam identified Alvin ‘Pirate’ DuPree involved, China realises it’s time to bring tampering at the as the murderer who killed her the past to light - or else it will haunt her church fete, keep the boyfriend right in front of her - and she forever. Then she discovers that Miles church funds safe from later went on to marry the detective, may be keeping secrets himself. Now, theft - all while falling now the police chief, who made the one fresh and several cold cases for handsome George, arrest. She and Clay raised a daughter will force China Bayles to face her dark who may have secrets and had a happy life – but now, past. Due Apr (American) of his own. Due Apr exonerated by recently uncovered Sandra BALZO (English) evidence, Pirate is free, leaving Nell Bean There, Done That M C BEATON haunted by doubt, guilt and fear... Due 192pp Tp $27.95 Death of a Travelling Man Apr (American) A Maggy Thorsen Coffee (1999) 272pp Pb $17.99 mystery. Here’s a tip: if Hamish Macbeth #9. The doctor’s drugs your ex-husband’s have gone missing. Money vanishes. mistress-cum-missus And neighbours suddenly become KEY asks for your help in unneighbourly and Hamish uncovers a proving that he bizarre story he may never be able to academic cheated on her while forget. Due Apr (English) he was married to you, banking M C BEATON just say no. And, Death of a Gentle Lady whatever you do, canine detectives 224pp Pb $17.99 don’t invite her in... Hamish Macbeth Mystery #24. Hamish is clerical Never one to heed her own advice, willing to get rough to solve the riddle of coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen does a seemingly gentle lady’s mysterious cosy/malice domestic just that when Rachel Slattery Thorsen demise. Due Apr (English) comes knocking on her door. When the Elizabeth BECKA culinary/food new Mrs Thorsen disappears that same Unknown Means evening, Maggy is torn between wanting 336pp Pb $23.00 fbi to see her cheating ex fry and protecting Evelyn James #2. Evelyn James is called to their son’s college fund. Due Apr investigate two different of feline detectives (American) women in very high security penthouse Leslie Esdaile BANKS suites. When her best friend Marissa is forensic Blind Trust (2005) attacked by the same man, things get 304pp Pb $16.95 personal. She is also distracted by horse racing mystery When Laura Caldwell set out to bring pressure from her detective boyfriend down Philadelphia’s most prominent and about their future together and by a crime Journalists corrupt families, she wasn’t sure she’d scene in the salt mine underneath Lake survive. But now she’s ready to enjoy the Erie. A third murder convinces her that medical fruits of her victory, millions in the bank the killer’s choice of victim is anything and a new romance with detective James military but random. (American) Carter. However, her adversaries have Alex BERENSON started taking their revenge and Laura native american The Silent Man 432pp Tp $32.95 knows her past is coming back with a John Wells #3. CIA special agent John police procedural vengeance. The families want their Wells and his fiancée Jennifer Exley are money and their power returned and targeted by assassins and Exley is political/legal they want to destroy Laura in the process. gravely injured. Discovering that the (American) assailants were Russian, he leaves for psychological Nevada BARR Moscow. What he finds there is a Winter Study 496pp Pb $23.95 terrifying plan set in motion by terrorists private eye Anna Pigeon #16. Soon after Anna who have infiltrated Russia’s nuclear Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team complex. Due Apr (American) romantic suspense of Isle Royale National Park, giant wolf Cara BLACK prints are found and a female member of Murder in Belleville (2000) sport the team is savaged, Anna is convinced 356pp Pb $24.99 they are being stalked and what was Aimée Leduc #2. Aimée barely escapes spy once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a death as she pursues terrorists amongst place of unnatural occurrences and Algerian nationalists and Islamic suspense/thriller danger beyond the ordinary. Due Apr fundamentalists who are part of an (American) underground North African network in Pb = Paperback Paris. Due Apr (American) Tp = Trade Paperback (slightly larger) Hb = Hardback

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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Cara BLACK Simon BRETT Chelsea CAIN Murder in the Marais (1999) The Poisoning in the Pub Sweetheart 320pp Pb $19.99 224pp Pb $24.99 400pp Hb $54.99 Archie and Gretchen #2. Investigative Aimée Leduc #1. Aimée is approached by Fethering #10. journalist Susan Ward is about to print a rabbi to decipher a 50-year-old Fethering residents, the story of her career - proving long- encrypted photograph and deliver it to Jude and Carole, get rumoured allegations about a respected an old woman in the Marais, the old more than they senator’s affair with a young girl, but the Jewish quarter of the city. When she bargained for when a day before her story is published, the does so, she finds herself caught up in a lunchtime meal in senator is killed in a car crash. Detective dangerous game with links to both their local pub leaves Archie Sheridan is trying to rebuild a life modern politics and crimes from WWII. everyone with food with his family. But he remains haunted Due Apr (American) poisoning. Then, by beautiful, ruthless Cara BLACK when Ray, a young Gretchen Lowell - the woman who Murder in the Sentier man with the mental tortured him, then saved his life. Now (2002) 336pp Pb $24.99 age of a five-year-old, is found in the that she is safely behind bars, Archie is Aimee Leduc #3. Aimée is shocked to hear kitchen of the pub with a knife through determined to stay away from her But that her mother was a member of the his heart, Carole and Jude swing into then the unthinkable happens: Gretchen notorious 1970s Red Terrorist gang, but action.Due Apr (English) escapes… Due Apr (American) before she can discover more, her contact Sandra BROWN Andrea CAMILLERI is murdered. Desperate to find her The Witness (1995) The Paper Moon mother, Aimée becomes embroiled with 448pp Pb $20.00 320pp Pb $22.99 resurgent terrorists ruthlessly seeking A car crash leaves three survivors: an Inspector Montalbano Mystery #12. The hidden loot – which seems to have infant, a man and Kendall Deaton. But gruesome murder of a man, shot in the disappeared without trace. Due Apr she doesn’t dare reveal their true face at point-blank range with his pants (American) identities to the authorities. Instead, she down, commands Inspector S J BOLTON plans her escape. Her perilous flight Montalbano’s attention. Add two Awakening 400pp Tp $32.95 begins. The best public defender in evasive, beautiful women as prime Veterinary surgeon Clara Benning is South Carolina, Kendall had stumbled suspects, dirty cocaine, dead politicians, young and intelligent, but practically a upon the town’s chilling secret, making mysterious computer codes and a series recluse. Disfigured by a childhood her marriage into a powerful family a of threatening letters and things soon get accident, she shies away from human living hell. Now, a terrified mother very complicated. Due Apr (Italian) contact. But when a man dies following a trying to protect her child, she is Haggai CARMON supposed snake bite, the victim’s post- surrounded by forces that will stop at The Chameleon Conspiracy mortem shows a higher concentration of nothing to protect what is theirs. 336pp Pb $18.95 venom than could ever be found in a (American) Dan Gordon #2. The master criminal and single snake. Assisted by her neighbour James Lee BURKE con man known as the Chameleon has and an eccentric reptile expert, Clara Jesus Out to Sea (2007) eluded international law enforcement for unravels sinister links to a barbaric 240pp Pb $23.00 2020 years. Dan Gordon was sure he ancient ritual, an abandoned house and a The very best of his finally had him, but he was left empty- 50-year-old tragedy that left the recent short stories handed. Now he won’t rest until the survivors fiercely secretive. Due Apr have been gathered Chameleon is stopped. Due Apr (English) together in one (American) Stephanie BOND collection. Burke Lee CHILD Four Bodies and a Funeral paints a vivid Gone Tomorrow 326pp Tp $32.95 320pp Pb $16.95 picture of 1940s and Jack Reacher #13. Suicide bombers Body Movers #4. A surprise visit from her 1950s Texas and are easy to spot. They give out all kinds father - who’s on the run from the law - Louisiana. As you of tell-tale signs, mostly because they’re has given Carlotta Wren a lot to think would expect of a nervous. Riding the subway in New about. Should she join her former fiancé, writer who cares York at two o’clock in the morning, Peter, in proving her father is innocent? passionately about Reacher knows the 12signs to look out If she does, are her body-moving days his fellow man, as well as the for. Watching one of his fellow- over? Due Apr (American) environment, the more contemporary passengers, he becomes aware as one-by- Gary BRAVER stories deal with the devastation left by a one, she ticks off every bullet point on Skin Deep 464pp Pb $18.95 hurricane. Here is the first collection of his list. Due Apr (American) Someone is killing the most alluring stories in 10 years by a modern master. Lee CHILD women of Boston. Homicide detective Lt (American) Nothing to Lose Steve Markarian must stop the killer Nancy BUSH 528pp Pb $21.95 before another woman is sacrificed - Unseen 384pp Pb $16.95 Jack Reacher #12. Jack pulls on a tiny possibly even his own estranged wife. She woke up in a hospital room, with loose thread, to unravel conspiracies that Beset with loneliness and addictions, no memories, bruised, bloody and expose the most shocking truths, Steve pursues leads all over greater confused. She knows her name is because, after all, he has nothing to lose. Boston - from the haunts of blue-blooded Gemma La Porte - but that’s all. She Due Apr (American) Brahmins, to seedy strip joints, to doesn’t remember anything from the last Carol Higgins CLARK mansions by the sea, to the halls of three days. Deputy Will Tanninger is Zapped 304pp Pb $14.95 prestigious universities, to the offices of waiting for answers and wants to know Regan Reilly #11. A blackout his own precinct - - and to the recesses if she’s responsible for a fatal hit-and- strikes and both Reillys are called into of his own heart, only to discover that he run, but remembering her past could kill action. Due Apr (American) himself may actually be the killer. Due her. Due Apr (American) Apr (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Mary Higgins CLARK Jeffrey COHEN Daniel DEPP Just Take My Heart A Night at the Operation Loser’s Town 352pp Pb $29.95 336pp Tp $29.95 304pp Pb $18.95 Summoned to the trailer of a While Natalie and her roommate, Jamie Double Feature Mystery #3. It’s hard for Hollywood star who’s receiving death Evans, were both struggling young Elliot Freed to focus on his Comedy threats, former stuntman-turned-private actresses, Jamie had been involved with Tonight theatre with his ex-wife missing investigator, David Spandau, assumes a mysterious married man to whom she and accused of murdering her patient. this will be another routine case. It turns referred only by nickname. Years later, With plenty of wanted - and unwanted - out to be anything but. A-list actor Bobby Natalie inadvertently addresses him by help, he embarks on a frantic search, Dye has become entangled with B-list the nickname Jamie had used and a few because murder is no laughing matter. gangster Richie Stella, who just wants to days later, is found dying from a Due Apr (American) make a movie - and you can’t make a gunshot wound. Immediately the police Patricia CORNWELL movie without a star. Due Apr (American) suspect her soon-to-be-ex-husband, Book of the Dead Garry DISHER Gregg Aldrich, but no charges are 470pp Pb $19.99 Blood Moon 320pp Tp $32.95 brought against him until a career Scarpetta #19. Scarpetta moves to Inspector Challis #5. When hordes criminal comes forward to claim that Charleston and opens a private forensic of 1818-year-old schoolies descend on Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill his pathology practice. It seems ideal until the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate wife… Due Apr (American) the violent deaths begin. ..(American) the last of their exams, the overstretched Philippe CLAUDEL Colin COTTERILL police of Waterloo expect reports of Brodeck’s Report Anarchy and Old Dogs party drugs and underage drinkers. 400pp Pb $29.95 272pp Pb $29.95 They don’t count on a brutal bashing Brodeck writes a report into the lynching Dr Siri Paiboun #4. A blind retired dentist that attracts political attention. The of an artist, a flamboyant figure who had has been run down by a logging truck on victim is connected and now Detective deeply disturbed the fragile equilibrium the street in Vientiane just opposite the Inspector Hal Challis is facing of the town he briefly settled in. But his post office. His body is duly delivered to interference from on high. Then a account of events and his investigation the morgue of Dr Siri Paiboun, the official bludgeoned corpse is found outside into potential motives of the and only coroner of Laos. He identifies town, and it’s clear something much townspeople becomes a report into the the corpse, helped by the letter in the darker than adolescent craziness is going catastrophe of his own life. Brodeck, man’s pocket, but first he must decipher down. Due Apr (Australian) himself also an outsider, seems to have it; it is written in code and invisible ink. Alex DRYDEN lately returned from a concentration The dentist’s widow explains that the Red to Black 512pp Pb $22.99 camp. In the course of his investigation, enigmatic letters and numbers describe At the dawn of the new millennium, he uncovers the truth about his origins chess moves, but they are unlike any Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a colonel of and all that happened to his family when chess symbols Siri has previously the KGB, have been sent to spy on each he was gone. Due Apr (French) encountered. Due Apr (English) other. Instead they find a love that Ann CLEEVES Charles CUMMING becomes to only truth they can trust. Red Bones 400pp Tp $32.99 Typhoon 464pp Pb $19.95 Finn’s masters in London are blinded by Shetland Island Hong Kong 1997. When an elderly the new wealth pouring out of Russia and Quartet #3. ..When an man emerges from the seas off the New he must leave the Service and work in archaeologist studying Territories, claiming to know secrets he secrecy to uncover the deadly threat it on a site at Whalsay will share only with the Governor poses to freedom. Due Apr (English) discovers a set of himself, a young MI6 agent, Joe Lennox, Barry EISLER human remains, the sees an opportunity to make his Requiem for an Assassin island settlers are reputation. But when the old man, a high- 384pp Pb $19.95 intrigued. Then an profile Chinese professor, is spirited away John Rain #6. For master assassin John elderly woman is shot in the middle of the night by Joe’s Rain, getting out of ‘the life’ was never in a tragic accident. superiors in collusion with the CIA, it’s going to be easy, but with a new identity Shetland detective clear that there’s a great deal more than a in Paris and the help of his lover, Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson young spy’s career at stake. Due Apr Mossad agent Delilah, he was hoping to – his own colleague, Sandy Wilson. (Scottish) leave the killing business behind. Then Surrounded by people he doesn’t know Clive CUSSLER & Jack Du BRUL he receives a message from rogue CIA and in unfamiliar territory, Jimmy finds Corsair: Oregon Files operative Jim Hilger: We have your himself out of his depth. Then there’s 448pp Tp $32.95 friend Dox. Do as we tell you, or the another death... Due Apr (English) When the US sniper dies… Due Apr (American) Harlan COBEN Secretary of State’s Robert EVERSZ Long Lost 352pp Tp $32.99 plane crashes while Digging James Dean (2005) Myron Bolitar #9 .Myron is summoned bringing her to a 288pp Tp $32.00 to Paris at the behest of an old lover, summit meeting in Nina Zero #4. A death in the family Therese. She is in trouble and needs his Libya, the CIA, - reunites ex-con turned paparazzi Nina help. When he gets there, he discovers distrusting the Zero with her long-lost sister, who now that her ex-husband has been murdered Libyans – hire Cabrillo touts herself as a successful real estate and she is the main suspect. The to search for it. The agent from Seattle. Nina is too busy to interesting thing is that more than one crew locates the plane, question her sister’s tale, because an blood-type has been discovered at the but the Secretary of altercation with a has-been Hollywood scene - and the other blood can only be State has vanished. It turns out Libya’s action hero leaves her with a hot lead in attributed to the dead man’s daughter, new foreign minister has other plans for the grandmother of all tabloid stories - but she died 10 years before... Due Apr the conference. Due Apr (American) the mysterious thefts of celebrity bones (American) from graveyards around the country. Due Apr (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Joy FIELDING Jonathan GASH Heather GRAHAM Charley’s Web 448pp Pb $19.95 Bad Girl Magdalene Deadly Gift 400pp Pb $22.99 A single mother 384pp Pb $22.99 Caer is spending who writes a Taking Holy Communion in Dublin one this Christmas among controversial column Sunday, it suddenly dawns on Magda strangers. Brought to for the Palm Beach Finnan how she can earn God’s blessing. Newport, Rhode Post, Charley Webb She vows to kill Father Doran. However, Island, from her native has spent years as the ghosts of the past refuse to lie Ireland to nurse ailing building an emotional quiet, a very different revelation awaits millionaire Sean wall against scathing her. Ultimately, she will have to realise O’Riley, she’s living a critics, snooty that everything she most believes in life few can imagine. neighbours and her might not be God’s truth after all. But money can’t hide disapproving family. (English) the tension between But when she receives a letter from Jill Alison GAYLIN O’Riley’s trophy wife, his paranoid Rohmer, a young woman serving time on Hide Your Eyes (2005) daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic death row for the murders of three small 288pp Pb $13.00 and the staff members who run the children, her wall slowly begins to Witnessing two people dump an house. When O’Riley’s business partner crumble... Due Apr (American) ominous looking chest into the Hudson, goes missing, family friend Zach Flynn Stephen FREY Samantha Leiffer has a horrible feeling arrives. Determined to help him solve The Fourth Order about its contents. Not one to let a the case, Caer becomes enmeshed in a 384pp Pb $18.95 murder pass unsolved, she sets out to mystery that weaves together the sins of Michael Rose is looking for Trafalgar get to the bottom of the mystery, aided the past with one family’s destiny. Due Industries to acquire CIS, a global by the very hot and hardline homicide Apr (American) information technology company. Rose detective, John Krull. Due Feb (American) Jane HADDAM has played the big business power game Mark GIMENEZ Cheating at Solitaire expertly enough to know he has the The Common Lawyer 384pp Pb $18.95 moves to outmanoeuvre CIS’s 368pp Tp $32.99 A Gregor Demarkian Mystery. The small, opposition. But Rose doesn’t know the Andy Prescott is the exclusive Massachusetts island of CIS is linked to the Order, an most laid-back young Margaret’s Harbor gets its 15 minutes of organisation with a twisted mission, lawyer in Austin, fame when aging teen stars Arrow lethal to anyone who stands in their Texas. Specialising in Normand and Marcey Mandret pay a way, and Michael’s hardball tactics have traffic law, he operates visit to local celebrity heiress, Kendra made him the Order’s number one hard from a small room Rhode. Then Arrow finds herself target… (American) above a ramshackle staggering around town, covered in Alan FURST tattoo parlour. He blood and incoherently drunk. Dark Voyage (2004) rides a trail bike and Meanwhile, her actor-boyfriend has been 320pp Pb $23.00 spends way too much found shot dead. Arrow is the only May 1941. A tramp freighter steams up time drinking beer in suspect crime - and she can’t remember a the Tagus river to dock at Lisbon. She is the sunshine. Then one of Texas’s thing. Former FBI agent Gregor the Santa Rosa, flies the flag of neutral wealthiest men walks into his office. On Demarkian flies in from Philadelphia to Spain and is there to unload cargo. But the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves review the charges against Arrow and she is really a Dutch freighter under the retains Andy as his lawyer and, in finds a case with little evidence and a command of Captain Eric DeHaan. She exchange for some easy legal work, pays nest of motives. Due Apr (American) sails for the intelligence division of the him more money than he has ever Steve HAMILTON British Royal Navy and is involved in a earned before. Andy’s life is Night Work 304pp Pb $19.99 secret mission. On board are a Polish transformed, but nothing comes for free. As the last person to see Marlene - a engineer and British spy, Spaniards who Russell is a desperate man whose sole jewellery designer - alive, probation fought for Franco and Germans who aim is to save his eight-year-old son, officer Joe Trumble is at the very least a fought against Hitler. (American) Zach, who is dying from leukaemia. He material witness and, as the evidence Lisa GARDNER is prepared to do anything-, even if it mounts and another body is found, Say Goodbye 400pp Pb $19.99 means putting Andy’s life in danger... suspicion begins to centre on him. Due Quincy/Rainie #6. Due Apr (American) Apr (American) When FBI field officer Joel GOLDMAN Charlaine HARRIS Kimberly Quincy gets The Dead Man 384pp Pb $16.95 A Fool and His Money (1999) called out to talk to Milo Harper wants former FBI agent 272pp Pb $18.95 one of the working Jack Davis’ help. People in Harper’s Aurora Teagarden #6.Aurora knows that girls of Sandy Springs study of the human brain are starting to when a day starts out with your girls, she’s already got die - and dying exactly in the very ways handyman going crazy it won’t get any enough on her mind. they have dreamed... Harper wants Jack better. Sure enough, her niece shows up What was a routine to get to the truth and counter lawsuits with a baby whom no one knew she was evidence-tagging aimed at the foundation. But when Jack expecting. Then she disappears, leaving session at the scene of investigates, the truth explodes: a serial behind the child and a murdered a cargo plane crash has gone horribly killer is lurking inside one of the most husband. To find her, Roe and Martin wrong. Just when they’d recovered all the advanced research facilities in the world. retrace her steps from Georgia back to crew bodies, they get an unwelcome For Jack, the case will shatter illusions, Ohio, where they will uncover dark surprise – an extra body caught in a raise ghosts and take him onto both family secrets at their own peril. tree… without a head... Due Apr sides of the law - and into the path of a (American) (American) murderer's terrifying rage. Due Apr (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Michael HARVEY Jane HILL Linda JOHNSTON The Fifth Floor Can’t Let Go 384pp Pb $23.95 Never Say Sty 304pp Pb $18.95 320pp Pb $29.95 When Beth Stephens opens the first Kendra Ballantyne Pet Sitter When PI Michael mysterious note, she is terrified. Mystery #7. Already an LA attorney and Kelly is hired by an Someone out there, someone who seems pet-sitter, Kendra’s taken on a third job, ex-flame to tail her to be stalking her every footstep, has masterminding a new reality show called abusive husband, he prised open the terrible secret she’s been Animal Auditions. But things get messier expects trouble of a hiding for over a decade and he is than the show’s pot-bellied pigs when domestic rather than threatening to exact revenge. Just when her hot new producer is suspected of a historical nature. she finally thinks herself safe, her days murder. Due Apr (American) Life, however, is not filled with new friendships, a boyfriend Hedi KADDOUR so simple. The tail and a steady job as a teacher, everything Waltenberg 672pp Pb $29.95 leads Kelly to an old starts to unravel. Suddenly, she can trust Set in Europe between WWI and the house on Chicago’s no one, seeing danger everywhere and collapse of the Soviet Union, this is a North Side. Inside it, she realises that she has to find the story of love between German Hans and the private investigator finds a body stalker before he closes in on her... Due American singer, Lena, and of friendship and, perhaps, the answer to one of Apr (English) between Hans and Max, a French Chicago’s most enduring mysteries: who Thomas HOLLAND journalist. Due Apr (French) started the Great Chicago Fire and why. K.I.A. 352pp Pb $18.95 Jonathan KELLERMAN Ultimately, Kelly finds himself in a Dr Kel McKelvey #2. The remains of Bones 544pp Pb $19.99 world where nothing is quite what it a soldier who disappeared in Saigon in Alex Delaware #23. A woman’s body is seems, face-to-face with a killer bent on 1970 have been discovered. Forensic found in marshland outside LA. By the rewriting history and staring down expert Kel McKelvey of the Army’s CI next morning the police have discovered demons from a past he never knew he Lab has his doubts about the cause of the decaying corpses of three more had. Due Apr (American) death especially when he discovers a women. Psychologist Alex Delaware is Sam HAYES link to a series of brutal murders being drafted in by homicide detective Milo Unspoken 496pp Pb $22.99 committed on military bases in the Sturgis to help with the case. Details of Mary Marshall would do anything American South. (American) the crimes suggest a serial killer is for her daughter Julia. She’s the rock her Lesley HORTON prowling LA’s gritty streets, but when a family can rely on. Until now. Mary has The Hollow Core new murder deviates from the pattern, a past Julia knows nothing about and it’s 304pp Pb $20.00 derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo come back to haunt her. Julia’s husband Detective Inspector Handford #4. When must look beyond the suspicion of Murray French is walking a tightrope. A Diane Ingleby is shot, DI John Handford madness… and consider an even more solicitor with an alcohol problem, he’s and DS Kahlid Ali are called in to sinister mind at work. Due Apr about to lose his wife and his children to investigate. Diane’s husband, Maurice is (American) another man: someone successful, involved with the BNP and it seems his Jonathan KELLERMAN someone they deserve. Someone who’s wife might have been caught in the Survival of the Fittest (1997) everything he’s not. Can he ever get his middle. (English) 544pp Pb $20.00 family back? Just when Julia thinks life is E Howard HUNT Alex Delaware #12. The disabled starting to turn around, she stumbles House Dick 208pp Pb $16.95 daughter of a diplomat is killed in the upon the brutalised body of a girl she This a classic hardboiled story of Santa Monica mountains. Her father teaches. And as the terrible present starts a detective in a Washington DC hotel adamantly denies the possibility of a to shed light on her mother’s past, Julia investigating a twisted tale of burglary political motive, which leaves LAPD realises her family’s nightmare is just and murder, of skulduggery under cover detective Milo Sturgis and Alex beginning. Due Apr (English) of darkness, of deception and shifting Delaware to wonder if the father wants Sue HENRY loyalties - and of the price you pay when to find the truth, or keep it buried. Degrees of Separation you trust the wrong people... Due Apr (American) 288pp Pb $16.95 (American) Jonathan KELLERMAN A Jessie Arnold Mystery. After healing Graham HURLEY True Detectives 352pp Tp $32.99 from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t The Price of Darkness Follow Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and 352pp Pb $19.99 the twisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, her dogs must work hard to qualify. Joe Faraday #8. DC baffling whodunit that forces the Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until Winter has gone brothers to put aside their mutual her sled hits a bump along the trail - a undercover in an animus - and to confront the unresolved dead body. What the kid was doing on a attempt to infiltrate family mystery that turned them into musher’s trail with no sled or dogs is the inner circle of the enemies. PIs can do things, legally, that anyone’s guess and in a chilling city’s premier drugs cops can’t. And cops have access to moment, Jessie realises that the case hits lord Bazza McKenzie. resources denied their private close to home… Due Apr (American) Isolated from his counterparts. Only by pooling their colleagues, resenting efforts and by consulting a man both the way his superiors brothers respect, psychologist Alex have presented him Delaware, do Fox and Reed stand a the job as a ‘fait accompli’ and abroad in chance of peeling back the secrets in high a world where money is easy and places that explain the fate of an respect is earned in brutally outwardly innocent young woman. And, straightforward ways, DC Winter is in by doing so, the brothers learn about his element. Worryingly so... Due Apr much more than murder. Due Apr (English) (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Jonathan KELLERMAN Chuck LOGAN John MANNING The Web (1995) 448pp Pb $20.00 South of Shiloh 496pp Pb $18.95 All the Pretty Dead Girls Alex Delaware #10. Dr William During a Civil War re-enactment of 484pp Pb $16.95 Moreland has spent much of his life the Battle of Kirby Creek, a sniper’s Two decades ago, at a private women’s attending to the inhabitants of Knife bullet rips through an unsuspecting college in upstate New York, a student Island, a tiny Micronesian community participant and a man who lived for was brutally attacked in her dorm room. and he asks Alex Delaware for mock war dies for his obsession. The Her assailant was never found... 20 years assistance. But Knife Island is not the fatal shot was intended for Kenny later, Sue Barlow arrives at Wilbourne tropical paradise it first appears. The Beeman, a Mississippi cop standing next College. When a classmate disappears, murder of a young woman has created to the victim, , a grim discovery that Sue thinks it’s an isolated incident, but an atmosphere of fear and division and compels the dead man’s widow to enlist then two other girls vanish... As fear Moreland himself is not quite what he the aid of her former lover, news grows on campus, Sue begins to sense seems. Due Feb (American) photographer John Rane. Rane must she’s being watched. And as the body Rebecca KENT now join forces with Beeman in a bizarre count rises, she soon realises that a Finished Off 208pp Pb $16.95 world of pretend soldiers. Due Apr twisted psychopath is summoning her to Bellehaven (American) play a wicked game - a game that only House Mystery #2. A Elizabeth LOWELL will end when she dies. Due Apr little girl ghost wants Blue Smoke and Murder (American) to be reunited with 448pp Pb $18.95 G J MOFFAT her family. Pained, St Kilda #4. 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(English) stay alive despite the claims and counter- Detective Constable Rebecca Irvine, Laura LEVINE claims, the threats and lies, and the death newly promoted to Strathclyde Police’s Killing Bridezilla that waits inside the blue smoke of CID, is stuck in a failing marriage. On her 256pp Pb $16.95 salesmanship and the brutal truth of first day in the new job, she is called to a Jaine Austen Mystery murder. Due April (American) murder scene in the affluent Southside of #7. Jaine’s accepted Lisa LUTZ Glasgow. The victim is Penny Grant, her share of lame gigs The Spellman Files Logan’s former girlfriend and her 11- to pay the bills, but 432pp Pb $18.95 year-old daughter is missing. Due Apr rewriting Izzy Spellman Mystery #1. Izzy Spellman (Scottish) Shakespeare has got is good at her job as a private Walter MOSLEY to be an all-time low. investigator with her family’s firm, Blonde Faith 320pp Pb 22.99 The fiasco begins Spellman Investigations. Invading Easy Rawlins #11. Easy Rawlins with a call from people’s privacy comes naturally to Izzy. comes home one day to find Easter, the Jaine’s high-school In fact, it comes naturally to all the daughter of his friend Christmas Black, nemesis, uber-rich Spellmans. If only they could leave their left on his doorstep. Easy knows that this uber-witch Patti work at the office... (American) could only mean that the ex-marine Black Devane. It seems Patti will soon be Henning MANKELL is probably dead, or will be soon. Easter's sashaying down the aisle with another The Man Who Smiled appearance is only the beginning, as Easy former classmate from Hermosa High 354pp Pb $24.95 is immersed in a sea of problems. The and she’d like the exchange of vows to Kurt Wallender #4. After killing a man in love of his life is marrying another man evoke Romeo and Juliet... except without the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander and his friend Mouse is wanted for the ‘downer’ of an ending. Even worse finds himself spiralling into an alcohol- murder. As he's searching for a clue to than the assignment itself, is dealing fuelled depression. He has just decided to Christmas Black's whereabouts, two with Patti as a client. At least Jaine’s not leave the police when an old friend suspicious MPs hire him to find his friend alone, as nobody can stand the approaches him for help investigating his Black on behalf of the US Army. His demanding, spoiled and incredibly rude father’s suspicious death. Kurt doesn’t investigation brings him to Faith Laneer, Bridezilla from Hell. So it isn’t a want to know. But then his friend is a blonde woman with a dark past. As complete surprise when the erstwhile found shot dead. Against his better Easy begins to put the pieces together, he Juliet plunges to her death during her judgment, he returns to work to head realises that Black's disappearance has its balcony scene... Due Apr (American) what may now have become a double roots in Vietnam and that Faith might be murder case. Due Apr (Swedish) in a world of danger. Due Apr (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Malla NUNN Thomas PERRY Matt REES A Beautiful Place to Die Fidelity 464pp Pb $19.95 The Samaritan’s Secret 406pp Pb $22.99 When – despite 352pp Tp $32.95 Detective Emmanuel Cooper #1. In a South all his training and 25 Omar Yussef #3. When Omar Yussef African town, Detective Emmanuel years experience as a travels to Nablus, the West Bank's most Cooper investigates the murder of private detective – Phil violent town, to attend a wedding, he Afrikaans police officer Captain Kramer is shot dead on little expects the trouble that awaits him. Pretorius. The more he digs, the more a quiet suburban south An ancient Torah scroll belonging to the dangerous the investigation becomes Californian street, his Samaritans, descendants of the biblical and Cooper has secrets of his own. If he wife and partners Joseph, has been stolen. 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It’s there that her great (American) prostitute. For Detective Inspector Jack grandfather worked as a prison doctor in Pauline ROWSON Delaney this is no ordinary case. He was the 1930s, where his involvement in a The Suffocating Sea a friend of Jackie’s and she left desperate bizarre experiment would change the 240pp Tp $27.95 messages on his answer phone just hours course of his life forever. TV presenter DI Horton Marine #5. Andy Horton is before she was killed. The fear in her Chad Ingram plans to conduct a new called to investigate a suspicious fire on voice tells him that this was not a experiment in the now disused gaol, in board a boat, but as soon he arrives at random act of violence. Just as Delaney the desolation of the old execution the marina he experiences a strong begins his investigation, a young girl is chamber. Chad’s experiment and premonition. As he views the charred reported missing and he is immediately Georgina’s curiosity will have horrifying remains of the dead man he knows tasked with finding her. Delaney knows consequences. For someone has their instinctively that this investigation will he must act quickly if there is any chance own reasons for be like no other and he is right. Soon he of finding her alive, but he is also suppressing the is forced to confront the past, not just his determined to track down Jackie’s killer shocking truth about own, but the mystery surrounding his before the trail goes cold. However, he Calvary. Someone who mother’s disappearance over 3030 years has some powerful enemies on the force will go to any lengths ago. As the pieces of a long ago puzzle and soon finds that this case may to ensure the past begin to unravel it soon becomes clear provide the perfect opportunity for them remains buried... that this is one case someone is to dispose of him, once and for all. Due (English) determined he should never solve. Due Apr (English) Apr (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Craig RUSSELL Karin SLAUGHTER Teresa SOLANA The Carnival Master Fractured 480pp Pb $21.95 A Not So Perfect Crime 448pp Pb $24.95 Will Trent #2. 295pp Pb $24.99 Jan Fabel #4. The Cologne police know a When Atlanta Lluis Font discovers woman is going to die. They know the housewife Abigail a portrait of his wife day it will happen and they’re powerless Campano comes in an exhibition that to stop it. They call on an outside expert: home unexpectedly leads him to Jan Fabel, head of Hamburg’s Murder one afternoon, she conclude he is being Squad and ’s leading authority walks into a cuckolded by the on serial killers. Fabel is on the point of nightmare. A artist. Concerned leaving the police for good, but Carnival broken window. A only about the in Cologne is a time when the world bloody footprint on potential political goes crazy and he is drawn into the hunt the stairs. Most fallout, he hires for the Carnival Cannibal. 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Due Apr on a quest to discover the answer to one greed, crime, vendettas and merciless (American) of archaeology’s greatest mysteries: the codes is fought in the name of La Tom Rob SMITH location of the legendary lost oasis of Famiglia. Follow Paolo Valente’s The Secret Speech Zerzura and the key to the astonishing, relentless pursuit of power that takes 464pp Tp $32.95 terrifying secret that lies at its heart... him through businesses and bedrooms. Undercover Russian agent Leo Demidov Due Apr (English) Due Apr (Australian) has been assigned to infiltrate Priest Denise SWANSON Elizabeth SIMS Lazar’s church by order of the State: it is Murder of a Royal Pain The Actress 400pp Pb $16.95 suspected of being a counter- 272pp Pb $16.95 Rita Farmer #1. Aspiring actress and revolutionary movement. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Joseph TELLER Fred VARGAS Bronx Justice 384pp Pb $18.95 This Night’s Foul Work HISTORICAL Jaywalker 416pp Pb $24.95 CRIME Mystery #2. Criminal Chief Inspector Adamsberg #4. On the defence attorney outskirts of Paris, two men have been Boris AKUNIN Harrison J Walker, found with their throats cut. It is seems The Coronation 256pp Tp $29.99 better known as to be a drug-related incident, but Erast Fandorin #7. Jaywalker for his Adamsberg is convinced that there is Grand Duke Georgii rebellious tactics, is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the Alexandrovich struggling to build case, he must call in a favour from the arrives in Moscow his own practice pathologist Ariane Lagarde, someone he for the coronation, when he receives a had come up against 23 years accompanied by call from a desperate previously. The trail also leads three of his children mother. 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The is back in the Mikhail has been snatched in the young attorney looks deep into the hometown she hasn’t confusion. A ransom letter arrives from crimes, studying both the characters seen for 40 years, Dr Lind, an international criminal, involved and the character of society. trying to live a demanding the handover of an What he finds will haunt him for the rest normal life with her enormous diamond. Can Fandorin find of his career. Due Apr (American) partner and teenage Mikhail, or will the Grand Duke’s son Brad THOR son, but that’s meet with the same gruesome fate as The First Commandment impossible because Lind’s last abductee… Due Apr (Russia) 496pp Pb $19.95 40 years ago, when Lindsey DAVIS Scott Harvath #6. In the dead of night, she was 11, she Three Hands in the Fountain (2001) five of the most dangerous detainees in killed a little boy. 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A frightened and Yellich find guided and encouraged by Ashley child approaches Roman informer themselves seeking McCarver, an attorney and state Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. the body of a man Democratic Party operative. Ashley’s Nobody believes Gaia’s story that a missing for 10 years. relationship to her candidate evolves relation wants to kill her - and neither But the mystery from campaign manager for a man she does he. Beset by his own family turns into murder - admires into an abiding love for him. troubles, by his new responsibilities as and naturally the grieving widow is a After Garcia’s political triumph, the two Procurator of the Sacred Poultry and by suspect in his murder. And then a marry. Meanwhile, Stanford Brown, now the continuing search for a new partner, second and third body is discovered - free, begins to unfold an elaborate plot to he turns her away. Immediately he along with a particularly nasty brand of have his rival impeached. Will this regrets it. 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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 11 David DICKINSON Caro PEACOCK Death on the Holy Mountain Death at Dawn (aka A Foreign Affair) CRIME 288pp Pb $21.99 432pp Pb $25.00 Lord Francis Liberty Lane #1. Thomas Jacques Lane, AUDIO Powerscourt #7. scholar and devoted father had led an Lisa GARDNER Powerscourt is sent unconventional life but of one thing his Say Goodbye 4 CDs $45.00 to Ireland to daughter, Liberty, is certain, he would (See description Modern Crime) Due investigate a series of never have taken part in a duel. So when Apr (American) art thefts from stately she receives a note informing her of his Donna LEON houses. A number of death in just such a manner, Liberty sets About Face 7 CDs $49.95 Old Masters had off in pursuit of the truth. With only her Guido Brunetti #18. Brunetti is been left untouched wits, she travels to the Continent and visited by Carabinieri Maggiore Filipo and the ones taken back in search of her father’s killer. 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More Leodegar of Autun arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed follow, and as Powerscourt makes his calls upon the because he got too close? Due Apr way towards the killer, his own life church leaders (American) comes under threat... Due Apr (Irish) from Western Carola DUNN Europe to attend a CRIME The Bloody Tower 256pp Pb $16.95 council, it becomes Daisy Dalrymple #16. Daisy Dalrymple a meeting haunted NON-FICTION Fletcher agrees to write a piece about the by sudden death Tower of London for an American and intrigue. Sister F Lee BAILEY & Jean RABE magazine. She’s spending the night since Fidelma and her When the Husband is the Suspect the complex is locked and guarded. companion, Brother Eadulf, arrive in 288pp Pb $15.99 When walking down the stairs, she Autun to act as advisors to the Irish An overview of several of the most almost trips over the body of one of the delegation. The theft of a priceless famous homicidal husband cases of Warders. 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