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“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #218 March 2004 FOUR GREAT AUTHORS, FOUR GREAT BOOKS... Barbara NADEL Ann GRANGER Petrified (320pp Tp 32.95) That Way Murder Lies ( 288pp Tp 32.95) The disappearance of two children deeply concerns Inspector Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell tackle a new case when a Cetin Ikmet, but even more worrying is that their own family middle-aged woman starts to receive poison pen letters members can't seem to agree when and where they were last relating to a murder of which she was acquitted when she was seen. Are they covering up and why? The answer, when it twenty. But this mystery is not the only thing they need to comes, is even more shocking than the crime. The sixth in this resolve. There's also the question of their own on-off excellent series set in Istanbul. relationship. The fifteenth in this great English police series. Alafair BURKE Judgment Calls (352pp Tp 24.95) An apparently simple assault case spirals into a complex web of violence and deception in this bold debut thriller from the daughter of James Lee Burke. Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid walks into her office in Portland's Drug & Vice Division one Monday morning to find three police officers waiting for her. A 13year-old girl has been brutally attacked and left for dead on the Jill CHURCHILL city's outskirts. Given the Love for Sale (214pp Pb 15.95) lack of evidence, most lawyers would settle for a simple In 1932, siblings and socialite sleuths Lily and Robert Brewster assault charge; Samantha, unnerved by the viciousness of the rent out their Grace and Favor Cottage to a mysterious crime, decides to go for attempted murder. Seamlessly moving stranger for a secret meeting, and become caught up in the between courtroom and criminal investigation, this debut novel kidnapping of a local boy and the murder of one of their reveals not only an insider's knowledge of the justice system, mystery guests. but a fresh new voice in the world of crime writing. This is the fourth in the Grace and Favor series. - Peter 2 Modern Crime Nancy ATHERTON Colin BATEMAN Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday Reservoir Pups 312pp Pb 17.95 212pp Pb 15.95 Eddie is new in Susan Wittig ALBERT When Lori Shepherd’s husband, Bill, is town. While he hangs Indigo Dying summoned to a will reading at the Earl of around waiting for 267pp Pb 15.95 Harrisford’s resplendent Palladian home, school to begin he is A China Bayles mystery #11. China heads Lori herself thinks she is just along for the drawn into a gang of to the tiny town of Indigo, Texas, to teach ride. But this gathering of the entire boys who are running a ‘Colours to Dye For’ workshop. But she Harrisford clan, all of them affected by elaborate scams in quickly discovers that Indigo is a town the Earl’s new will, devolves into a town. Engaged on his with more than its share of dark secrets dangerous family dispute. Thoroughly first task, he discovers and someone thinks they are worth modern cosy. (American) more than he killing to keep. (American) Ace ATKINS bargained for when he overhears a plan to kidnap babies from Donna ANDREWS Dark End of the Street the local hospital. (English) Crouching Buzzard, 400pp Pb 17.95 Leaping Loon 320pp Pb 15.95 A Nick Travers mystery #3. Travers came Cynthia BAXTER A Meg Langslow mystery #4. The of age in a smoky New Orleans bar and Dead Canaries Don’t Sing atmosphere at work is so consistently he owes a monumental debt to its owners, 400pp Pb 15.95 loony that the office mail cart makes Jo Jo and Loretta, who took him under A Reigning Cats and Dogs mystery. The sun several passes through the reception their wings. Now Loretta wants Nick to is barely up and the day is already going room, with the office practical joker lying locate her missing brother, the legendary to the dogs. Literally. As Dr Jessica on top of it pretending to be dead, before singer Clyde James, who vanished in the Popper embarks on a house call to a local Meg realises that he has become the 1960s after his wife and a band member horse farm, her one-eyed Dalmatian, Lou, victim of someone who was not joking at were murdered. (American) and her tailless Westie, Max, stumble all. He has been murdered for real. Robert BARNARD upon something unexpected: a corpse (American) A Cry from the Dark half buried in the woods. (American) 260pp Hb 49.95 James BEAUSEIGNEUR KEY Master of mystery and internationally Birth of an Age 349pp Pb 15.95 academic acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty The Christ Clone trilogy #2. Formerly literary gems, Barnard cleverly mixes involved in politics on a full-time basis, banking past and present in this outstanding James BeauSeigneur has managed several novel, an intriguing tour de force campaigns and in 1980 ran for US canine detectives sweeping from 1930s Australia to Congress against Al Gore. He has four contemporary London. Barnard won the years of experience in military clerical CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime intelligence, including two and a half achievement in 2003. (English) years as a linguist and analyst with the cosy/malice domestic Robert BARNARD National Security Agency. (American) The Mistress of Alderley M C BEATON culinary/food 347pp Pb 19.95 Death of a Village Actress Caroline Fawley is enjoying life in 261pp Pb 15.95 fbi her new role as ‘the mistress of Alderley’. A Hamish Macbeth She laps up the attention she receives mystery. Hamish is feline detectives from her new neighbours in the Yorkshire quite disturbed when village of Marsham. But Caroline’s idyllic a very agitated forensic life is shattered when a young man, Elspeth Grant arrives looking remarkably like her lover Marius horse racing mystery in his garden. It Fleetwood, unexpectedly turns up on her seems that three medical doorstep. Within a few weeks Marius has citizens of nearby gone missing and soon a body turns up in Stoyre have moved to military this comedy of manners. (English) Loch-dubh in a Nevada BARR hurry, but they are native american Flashback 393pp Pb 17.95 quite unwilling to An Anna Pigeon mystery #11. When offer Elspeth any facts as to why. After police procedural Anna Pigeon flees a marriage proposal to many frights and dangers, Hamish soon do ranger service on Garden Key in Dry discovers that a sunken WW I German political/legal Tortugas National Park, she finds that the ship, and its cache of gold bullion, are the past (the island was once a prison) and key to solving the strange demise of the psychological the present (an exploding boat scatters once lively village. (Scottish) unidentified body parts) are eerily William BERNHARDT private eye conjoined. This is a solid addition to the Death Row 416pp Pb 17.95 series. (American) A Ben Kincaid mystery. Bernhardt romantic suspense Beverly BARTON ratchets up the suspense quotient to near- The Last to Die399pp Pb 15.95 heart stopping new levels and challenges sport When Jamie Upton is viciously even the most jaded thriller readers to keep up with the twists and turns. Crime spy slayed, Cherokee Pointe citizens suspect his former lover, Jazzy Talbot. The killer will never pay. But crime fiction, served up with the wit, grit and sheer virtuosity suspense/thriller strikes again and again, meaningfully leaving Jazzy’s death until last. This is a of Bernhardt, always pays off. AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB chilling read. (American) (American) CRIME CHRONICLE MARCH 2004 www.abbeys.com.au 3 Victoria BLAKE Sandra BROWN Massimo CARLOTTO Bloodless Shadow Hello, Darkness 448pp Pb 18.95 The Colombian Mule 288pp Tp 24.95 Talk-show host Paris Gibson blames 160pp Tp 24.95 A PI Samantha Falconer novel #1. Sam is herself for her husband’s death while her When Colombian Arias Cuevas is caught pretty good at taking care of herself. Four affair with police psychologist Dean trying to smuggle drugs through Venice times world judo champion, she now Malloy has turned sour. But Dean and airport, his fear is not fuelled by the idea runs the Gentle Way Investigation Paris are unexpectedly thrown back of prison. He is much more frightened of Agency in London. But when her brother together when a caller announces that he his aunt; it was her cocaine he took off Mark asks her to return to Oxford to has kidnapped a woman and plans to kill with. A pacy, witty crime thriller, an investigate the disappearance of a her within 72 hours. (English) Italian Pulp Fiction. (Italian) woman, Sam finds herself confronting a T Davis BUNN Laura CHILDS past she hoped she had left behind. Winner Take All Photo Finished 260pp Pb 13.95 (English) 405pp Pb 17.95 A Scrapbooking mystery #2. New Jane BOLITHO Following a surprising courtroom Orleans scrapbooking shop owner The Cornish Novels victory, attorney Marcus Glenwood takes Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night 400pp Pb 34.95 on an equally surprising new client: Dale ‘Crop Till You Drop’ session when a A Rose Trevelyan trilogy. Includes Steadman, the CEO of the very company neighbouring antique-shop owner winds Snapped in Cornwall (1997), Framed in Marcus prosecuted. His job is to find up murdered in the alley. Now, Carmela Cornwall (1998) and Buried in Cornwall Steadman’s dangerously unstable ex- must rearrange the jumble of clues and (1999).