“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). (English) wife, opera singer Erin Brandt, who has pick out the killer. (American) Michael BOND kidnapped their baby daughter. Harlan COBEN Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the (American) No Second Chance Headlines #14 213pp Hb 49.95 James Lee BURKE 400pp Pb 18.95 When a TV chef downs an oyster in Lay Down My Sword & Shield It starts with an excruciating premise: close-up and consequently dies on screen, 305pp Pb 17.95 What would you do if your infant were Pommes Frites, sniffer dog Hack Holland is a product of the South, kidnapped? Coben’s hero, a plastic extraordinaire, thinks good riddance to both old and new. Hard drinking, ex- surgeon specialising in paediatrics, has bad rubbish. Subsequent events prove POW and a wealthy, progressive no known enemies. However, when he him right, as usual, but not before he and Democrat, he stands in the long shadow wakes up 12 days after having been shot, Pamplemousse enter a bizarre world of cast by his ancestors. When Holland’s he discovers his wife is dead, his six- lust, murder and blackmail. (English) candidacy for a congressional seat brings month-old daughter has been kidnapped Rhys BOWEN him increasingly into conflict with those and he is the main suspect! (American) Evan Only Knows around him, his almost unwitting Stuart COHEN 255pp Pb 15.95 involvement with a violent civil rights The Stone Angels A Constable Evans mystery #7. The young conflict forces him to reassess his future 320pp Tp 24.95 thug convicted of murdering Evan’s and his past. (American) Commisario Miguel father several years earlier is suspected of Jan BURKE Fortunato is a recent murder once more. Tony Mancini only Eighteen 439pp Pb 17.95 widower near served four years in prison and now he is This is a selection of Burke’s short retirement with the accused on killing his boss’ daughter but fiction including the Agatha Award Buenos Aires Police Evan believes the youth is innocent. nominated story ‘Devotion’. They are Department. Six (English) sure to satisfy long-time fans and months ago he was Tom BRADBY newcomers. (American) ordered to kidnap The White Russian Richard BURKE foreigner Robert 550pp Pb 21.95 Frozen 272pp Tp 24.95 Waterbury for St Petersburg in 1917 is a city on the brink When his childhood friend Verity is reasons never made of revolution where the jackals of the found at the foot of Beachy Head, barely clear to him. The Secret Police intrigue for their own alive, Harry’s life is thrown into turmoil. kidnapping turned to murder. Now, the survival as their aristocratic masters He cannot accept that the happy-go-lucky Americans are sending their own indulge in one last, desperate round of girl he grew up with would try to kill investigator and Fortunato is assigned to hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, chief herself. He should know. He was closer to assist and support her. When he meets investigator, even this decaying world her than anyone, wasn’t he? (English) the young, inexperienced Athena Fowler, provides the opportunity for a new Stephen CANNELL fresh from the university, he realises that beginning. Banished to Siberia four years Hollywood Tough the Americans are not eager to solve the ago for pursuing a case his superiors 346pp Pb 17.95 crime either. (English) would rather he had quietly buried, Detective Shane Scully is back in the good Susan CONANT Ruzsky finds himself investigating the graces of the department, hailed as a hero The Dogfather 259pp Pb 15.95 murders of a young couple found on the after bringing down a deadly gang of A Dog Lover’s mystery. Holly Winter ice of the frozen river Neva. (Irish) rogue cops. At a glamorous Hollywood has got a hot new gig: dog trainer to the Steve BREWER party with his new wife Alexa, Shane Mob. Big Boss Enzio Guarini has Crazy Love 250pp Pb 13.95 overhears a famous producer make a recruited her to train his new pup. But A Bubba Mabry mystery #6. Soft- suspicious remark about the strange when Guarini’s right-hand man is shot boiled Albuquerque PI Bubba Mabry gets deaths of two ex-wives. Is he serious or dead, Holly’s caught between a violent to see how the other half lives, and how merely joking around with his coterie of vendetta and a family well trained in they die, when he is hired by a mild- hangers-on? (American) murder. Author Conant is a three-time mannered millionaire to find out who is recipient of the Maxwell Award for Fiction his wife’s lover. (American) Writing given by the Dog Writer’s Association of America! (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 John CONNOR Jeffrey DEAVER Janet EVANOVICH Phoenix 304pp Tp 24.95 The Vanished Man & Charlotte HUGHES In this stunning, grittily authentic 419pp Pb 19.95 Full Blast #2 352pp Pb 19.95 debut novel, young Yorkshire-based A Lincoln Rhyme mystery #5. A killer flees There is never a barrister, John Connor, introduces the scene of a homicide at a Manhattan dull moment for the Detective Constable Karen Sharpe. The music school and locks himself in a residents of Beaumont, 8th April 1996 was a bad day for Karen classroom surrounded by police. A South Carolina. Lately, Sharpe, the eighth anniversary of scream rings out, then a gunshot. The a heat wave has spiked something so deeply buried she had police break in. The room is empty. the mercury and hoped to forget it ever happened. But this Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are everyone’s sex drive! year booze was not going to help her pitted against a killer with one final, These days, when because some time after midnight, Phil horrific trick to play. (American) Jamie runs into Max, it Leech, her DS and partner on Operation Irene DISCHE is all she can do not to Anvil, is executed in a military style The Job 160pp Pb 21.95 tear his clothes off, and killing, whilst Fiona Mitchell, his pretty As an infamously heartless Kurdish the feeling is mutual. Meanwhile, the 21-year-old informant, is found face up assassin makes his cool, controlled lingerie shop is having a sale on edible on a South Pennine moor. (English) preparations for a contract killing, he has underwear, while the bakery’s selling David CORBETT not reckoned on New York’s bustling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated The Devil’s Redhead anonymity and its squirting jam donuts, birthday cakes. But when someone starts 384pp Tp 24.95 nor on the distractions of an elderly bumping-off some of the town’s more A gripping noir debut about two grifters neighbour who shares her tinned annoying citizens, all clues lead straight who, like Bonnie and Clyde, will go a sardines with him in his lonely hours. A to the new personals section in Jamie’s long way for love, except staying within mix of satire, intrigue and oddball lethal newspaper. (American) the law. (American) suspense, this is a deft tale of light and Nancy FAIRBANKS Neil CROSS shadows, which hits unexpected targets The Perils of Paella Always the Sun 318pp Tp 24.95 of human emotion. (American) 290pp Pb 13.95 What do you do when your son is Tim DORSEY A Culinary mystery. Food writer Carolyn bullied? How far will you go to protect The Stingray Shuffle gets to challenge her taste-testing skills him from those who seek to cause him 379pp Pb 17.95 again, this time in Barcelona. Her first harm? Jamie is 13 years old, an only child. When serial-killing, local Florida feast is for the eyes at a modern art His mother has recently died. He and his historian Serge Storms is off his museum where her friend Roberta is the father Sam have moved to Sam’s medications, no one is safe. Not Russian resident scholar. There, she catches a hometown. A fresh start. An aunt to lend hoods, Jamaican mobsters, spoiled frat performance art piece about death, support. A new job for Sam, a new school boys, women’s book clubs, drug dealers planted a little too firmly in reality. One for Jamie. But one day Jamie comes home, or Vegas-rejected local lounge acts! of the actors is not acting; she’s dead! bearing the scars of every parent’s Especially when $5 million in cash in a And now, Carolyn is in the middle of a nightmare. Something must be done. So it bugged suitcase is still racing up and new investigation into a very unsavoury begins… (English) down the Eastern Seaboard. But in the crime. (American) Clare CURZON oddball circus known as the Sunshine Jerrilyn FARMER A Meeting of Minds State, little things, like astronomical body Mumbo Gumbo 352pp Pb 15.95 246pp Hb 49.95 counts, tend to get lost in the shuffle. A Madeline Bean novel. Murder An intriguing and thought-provoking (American) meets Hollywood when Maddie joins the mystery, this is the latest in the popular Catherine DUNBAR oddball staff of TV’s hottest new culinary series featuring Mike Yeadings and the False Images 300pp Pb 15.95 series. However, the show is on the brink Thames Valley CID. (English) A Poisoned Pen Press mystery. Moving of disaster, with the head writer missing Judith CUTLER quietly and intelligently, but with a clear and staffers quitting or disappearing Power Shift 288pp Pb 18.95 sense of menace, Dunbar’s twisty plot is weekly, until a secret room, a priceless Kate Power is newly promoted peopled with vivid, sympathetic packet of Kool-Aid and a bubbling Cajun and in charge of her own station. So, in characters. After authoring several gumbo bring Maddie face-to-face with a addition to getting used to the pressures historical sagas, she succeeds in crafting a murderer. (American) of responsibility and gaining the respect well-imagined, suspenseful thriller about L T FAWKES of a new team, she has to get to know a art fraud. (American) Lights Out 256pp Pb 13.95 new neighbourhood, with new problems Barry EISLER A Working Man’s and new crimes. (English) Hard Rain 352pp Tp 29.95 mystery #2. After Claire DANIELS John Rain, jazz stewing in jail and Strangled Intuition 293pp Pb 15.95 fan, single-malt getting dumped by When a party ends with one of whiskey connoisseur his wife, Terry Saltz Cally’s massage clients strangled with and honourable is finally getting his her own necklace, the police suspect the assassin, is dragged life back. But then a husband, but one look at his aura and out of retirement, man is knocked off in Cally knows that he is not a killer. first by blackmail and his trailer park and (American) then by revenge. guess who is caught holding the gun? His Christopher DARDEN & Dick LOCHTE Featuring many of ex-wife, Marylou, The Last Defense the characters so drunk as a skunk. She may be mean, but 382pp Pb 17.95 vividly brought to Marylou is no killer. Now Terry has to Young lawyer Mercer Early juggles a life in Rain Fall (Pb 17.95), Eisler takes us butt in and get her off the hook because puzzling murder case and a forbidden on another journey into a world of no one is getting away with murder in his love affair with his boss’s daughter. spooks, double-crosses and elaborately backyard. (American) (American) executed ‘terminations’. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE MARCH 2004 www.abbeys.com.au 5 Robert FERRIGNO Luiz Alfred GARCIA-ROZA Lee GOLDBERG Scavenger Hunt 368pp Pb 21.95 December Heat 288pp Tp 29.00 Diagnosis Murder: While on an LA party-scene scavenger An Inspector Espinosa mystery #2. The Death Merchant hunt, reporter Jimmy Gage meets Garrett The first Espinosa mystery, The Silence 245pp Pb 13.95 Walsh, a former boy-wonder director of the Rain (Pb 22.00), won audiences Dr Mark Sloan and his son have their who has just been released from prison with its steamy evocation of exotic Rio de vacation interrupted when a local after serving seven years for the drug- Janeiro, its singular narrative approach, restaurateur washes up on the shore, rage murder of a seemingly innocent and its highly appealing protagonist. In supposedly killed by a shark. (American) teenage girl. Out of prison and out for this second in the series, Garcia-Roza Joel GOLDMAN justice, Walsh chooses Jimmy to help him once again delivers a story as unusual as Cold Truth 414pp Pb 15.95 clear his name by getting the right people it is complex, with a resolution sure to When a syndicated radio psychiatrist to read his newest script, Fall Guy, the elude, and ultimately delight, even the is defenestrated, her life is brought to a story of the set-up that sent him away. most discerning crime readers. (Brazilian) brutal end. However, when a woman (American) Meg GARDINER patient owns up to the murder, DA Lou Monica FERRIS Mission Canyon 432pp Pb 18.95 Mason realises something about his Cutwork 258pp Pb 15.95 Evan Delaney has come to terms client’s story does not add up. Is she A Needlecraft mystery #7. After an with the hit-and-run crash that left her protecting a deadly psychopath whose artisan is murdered at the art fair in boyfriend, Jesse Blackburn, in a agenda is far from complete? (American) Excelsior, Minnesota, everyone is on pins wheelchair and killed his best friend in Winston GRAHAM and needles. It is up to needlework shop China Lake (Pb 18.95). But when she Marnie (1961) 310pp Hb 30.95 owner Betsy Devonshire to figure out hears that the driver, Franklin Brand, is The novel that became a classic who had designs on the dead designer. back in Santa Barbara, she is determined Hitchcock film. Marnie seems a charming (American) to help Jesse bring him to book for his woman, but no one knows her real name Joanne FLUKE crime. Then, witnesses to the hit-and-run or anything about her at all. Now Marnie Lemon Meringue Pie Murder start dying and Jesse’s search for justice has walked into a trap. The game is over - 337pp Pb 15.95 becomes a hunger for vengeance, as or would be - if the man who trapped her A Hannah Swenson mystery. Who could powerful interests determine to stop him hadn’t caught himself as well! (English) have killed voluptuous Rhonda Scharf, and Evan once and for all. (American) John GRISHAM whose half-buried body Hannah’s Lisa GARDNER The Last Juror 355pp Hb 49.95 interfering mother discovers in the The Survivors’ Club 437pp Pb 17.95 In 1970, one of Mississippi’s more basement of an old house one of Jillian, Carol and Meg will not colourful weekly newspapers, The Ford Hannah’s swains has just purchased? The consider themselves victims; they are County Times, went bankrupt. To the investigation proceeds unhurriedly, with survivors of a terrible crime that hit the surprise and dismay of many, ownership plenty of time for cookies, coffee and headlines and changed their lives forever. was assumed by a 23-year-old college small-town gossip. (American) And now that Eddie Como, the College drop-out named Willie Traynor. The G M FORD Hill Rapist, has been shot down outside a future of the paper looked grim until a A Blind Eye 294pp Tp 30.00 packed courthouse moments before his young mother was brutally raped and A Frank Corso trial, all three women are openly ecstatic murdered by a member of the notorious novel. With only eight that he is dead. They are also the prime Padgitt family. Traynor reported all the days to solve a suspects in his murder. (English) gruesome details and his newspaper multiple homicide, P L GAUS began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Corso begins a hunt Cast a Blue Shadow Padgitt, was tried before a packed that will carry him 225pp Tp 29.00 courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi. The halfway across the An Ohio Amish mystery. Previous Gaus trial came to a startling and dramatic end country and through a mysteries have concentrated on various when the defendant threatened revenge chilling history of elements in the life of Prof Michael against the jurors if they convicted him. violence, terror and Branden: his job as a history professor at Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and bloodshed that Millersburg College, his relationship with he was sentenced to life in prison. But in spreads from the small town of Avalon, childhood friends Pastor Cal Troyer and Mississippi in 1970, ‘life’ didn’t Wisconsin, to the remote farmlands of Sheriff Bruce Robertson and his interaction necessarily mean ‘life’, and nine years New York State. And his single-minded with the Amish in his northern Ohio later Danny Padgitt managed to get pursuit will make him a marked man, community. This fourth mystery is a himself paroled. He returned to Ford (the target of a rage-driven maniac, a compelling combination of these aspects of County, and the retribution began. master of cunning reinvention,) as he Branden’s life and more. (American) (American) draws closer to the shocking truth that is Alan GLYNN David HAGBERG hidden away in an isolated mountain The Dark Fields 352pp Pb 22.95 The Kill Zone 437pp Pb 17.95 community, where no law protects the Imagine a drug that makes your When Kirk innocent. (American) brain function with perfect efficiency, McGarvey is made Reg GADNEY tapping into your most fundamental interim director of the The Scholar of Extortion resources of intelligence and drive, CIA, what should have 381pp Tp 29.95 releasing all the passive knowledge you been the culmination of This is an exhilarating, white-knuckle had ever accumulated? A drug that made his career, has thriller about modern piracy in the Far you focused, charming, fast and even activated a 20-year-old East, and for many critics this book sees attractive? Eddie Spinola is on such a Russian plot sponsored Gadney at the height of his powers. In drug. It is called MDT-48, and it is Viagra by his former arch- Klaas-Pieter Terajima, he has created for the brain. But while MDT is helping enemy, General perhaps one of the most convincing Eddie achieve the kind of success he has Baranov. (American) psychopaths in contemporary fiction. only dreamed about, it is also chipping (English) away at his sanity. (Irish)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Brian HAIG Denise HAMILTON Joan HESS Mortal Allies 564pp Pb 18.95 Sugar Skull 374pp Pb 15.95 Maggody and the Moonbeams Major Sean Drummond is back! An Eve Diamond novel #2. When a 327pp Pb 15.95 Assigned to South Korea as an advocate distraught father breaks past security to An Arly Hanks mystery. Enforcing law and for a gay officer accused of brutally beg for her help, Los Angeles Times order in the Ozarks just got tougher for killing the son of a South Korean war reporter Eve Diamond can’t refuse. His Arly Hanks. Chaperoning the church hero, Drummond is teamed up with an daughter, caught up in the rough youth group, she must keep 10 old law school nemesis, curvy attorney “squatter” lifestyle, is missing and Eve, hormonally-challenged teens in line on a Katherine Carson. Drummond is as sensing a scoop, wants to know why a retreat to Camp Pearly Gates. But distraught to be working with a woman privileged teen from Pasadena would adolescent angst soon turns to shocking who knows how to push all his buttons, hook up with the dregs of Hollywood. revelation when the body of a white- as he is to be defending this client. When the girl is found dead, Eve suspects robed woman turns up on the However, it is just this lack of political there is more going on than the tragic campgrounds. (American) correctness that makes him the one man death of a rebellious youth. (American) Jilliane HOFFMAN the CIA can trust with its disturbing Patricia HARDWIN Retribution 416pp Tp 29.95 secrets. Drummond quickly learns that Arson and Old Lace One rainy night in New York City, what appears to be an open and shut case 304pp Pb 14.95 outstanding law student Chloe Larson is really just the top layer of a deep A Far Wychwood Mystery. “You’re a wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it is conspiracy. (American) librarian, not a detective,” Catherine not a nightmare; she is savagely violated Carolyn HAINES Penny’s daughter reminds her. But in her own bedroom. 12 years later, she is Crossed Bones 384pp Pb 15.95 Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, forging a formidable reputation as an A Mississippi Delta mystery #4. In finds it easy to slip into sleuthing mode attorney and a vicious serial killer is on rich, atmospheric mysteries set against when she leaves behind a failed marriage the loose. (American) the backdrop of modern-day Mississippi, in New York City for a lovely 17th Linda HOWARD Carolyn Haines has given the southern century cottage in the idyllic English Cry No More 384pp Tp 32.95 belle a brilliantly hip makeover. Now, her village of Far Wychwood. (American) On a sultry unforgettable heroine, Sarah Booth Charlaine HARRIS afternoon in a small Delaney, is back with a tale about Last Scene Alive dusty village, Milla skeletons in closets and elsewhere. 251pp Pb 13.95 Boone faces every (American) An Aurora Teagarden mystery. ‘Roe’ parent’s nightmare. Patricia HALL Teagarden relives past history when a Two assailants Dead Reckoning movie crew settles in town to make a film kidnap her six-week- 280pp Hb 49.95 based on her first sleuthing adventure. old son, leaving An Ackroyd and Thackeray mystery. With The crew includes both Robin Crusoe, her Milla in a pool of racial tensions already running high former co-sleuth and a true-crime writer, blood, left for dead. throughout the city, the prospect of mass and her hate-filled stepson. Before long, For 10 years, Milla’s redundancies at the heart of Bradfield’s murder strikes again. A delightful series. resolve to find her son never wavers. Muslim community could cause even (American) Returning to the scene of the crime, she more trouble. And as the British Patriotic Lee HARRIS begins to piece together not only her son’s Party start campaigning for local The Bar Mitzvah Murder fate, but the fate of countless other elections, violence spills onto the streets 272pp Pb 15.95 children who have disappeared into what and areas of Bradfield go up in flames. For suburban sleuth Christine Bennett, appears to be an elaborate and highly (English) the chance to visit the Holy Land is a lucrative baby smuggling ring. Patricia HALL dream come true. Her best friend Melanie Cautiously, she joins forces with James Death in Dark Waters Gross will be in Jerusalem at the same Diaz, a dangerous stranger with his own 273pp Pb 19.95 time for the Bar Mitzvah of her very agenda, a man who is as untrusting as he After a night out wealthy cousin. The beauty and mystery is untrustworthy. As Milla’s search for clubbing, the son of a of the golden city is overwhelming, and her son intensifies, along with a growing wealthy local Christine is excited about exploring every desire for Diaz, the quest becomes more businessman is part of it until Melanie’s wealthy cousin treacherous. Suddenly, entangled in an knocked down and Gabe disappears without a trace, turning intricate criminal network of conspiracy left in a coma. His her vacation tour into a trail of clues that and murder, she finds herself the target of father wants to know leads to a cold and cunning killer. a lethal force of hired assassins that aims who supplied him (American) to silence her permanently. (English) with ecstasy and Libby Fischer HELLMANN Donald JAMES Michael Thackery is An Image of Death Walking the Shadows put on the case. 304pp Pb 15.95 400pp Pb 21.95 Meanwhile, his girlfriend Laura Ackroyd Working-mum sleuth and documentary- Tom Chapel comes to St Juste to discover is conducting her own investigation into maker, Ellie Foreman’s plans get thrown why a local man, Marcel Coultard, has the local drugs problem. (English) for a loop when a mysterious package left his $28m fortune to his daughter Denise HAMILTON appears at her door one winter night. Romilly, and why shortly after his Jasmine Trade (2001) Inside she finds a surveillance video bequest, Romilly was abducted and 352pp Tp 24.95 showing the murder of a young woman. attacked, and left in a life-threatening An Eve Diamond Novel #1. The story of Who was this woman and what is her coma. The local police are not May-li and her journey from a poor connection to Ellie? (American) forthcoming: there is a code of silence farming home in Fujian, China, to a about Romilly and another dead girl, a brothel in Los Angeles is one that Eve will silence which suggests a deeper and fight to tell and will never forget. abiding mystery that Tom must uncover. (American) (English)

CRIME CHRONICLE MARCH 2004 www.abbeys.com.au 7 Quinton JARDINE Alice KIMBERLY John MANNOCK Fallen Gods 320pp Pb 18.95 The Ghost and Mrs McClure Iron Coffin 385pp Pb 15.95 The heat is on for DCC Bob 272pp Pb 13.95 Strafed and depth charged by Skinner, Scotland’s most revered and, in Penelope Thornton- American bombers, reeling from damage some circles, most feared cop. His career McClure manages a and with supplies running low, a German hangs by a thread, as a recent illness gives Rhode Island U-boat limps along toward the coastal his enemies a weapon to use against him. bookshop rumoured bayous of Louisiana where the crew’s A body found in the detritus of a flood is to be haunted. When only chance of survival rests in the hands identified as the hated brother whose a bestselling author of an isolated group of people who existence he has kept hidden for years. drops dead signing recognise no government and no war. On the crime front, an incendiary device books, the first clue There, in the heart of the enemy, Nazi destroys a valuable painting in the Royal of foul play comes gold can buy help. But gold can also buy Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. But is he from the store’s full- betrayal. An electrifying WWII thriller still up to the challenge...? (English) time ghost, a PI debut from a former Special Forces Faye KELLERMAN murdered on the sniper. (American) Street Dreams 560pp Pb 19.95 very spot more than 50 years ago. Is he a Ed McBAIN A Cindy Decker mystery #2. While figment of Pen’s overactive imagination? Fat Ollie’s Book on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Or is the likable, fedora-wearing spectre 291pp Pb 17.95 Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? A novel of the 87th Precinct. All at once, Fat an alley dumpster. But she cannot call it a (American) Ollie Weeks had a truly brilliant idea but, night until she sees the infant safe in a Laurie KING as any real writer could tell you, that is hospital. Armed with advice from her Keeping Watch 400pp Tp 27.00 how inspiration strikes - with the sudden overworked detective father, Cindy Near retirement after years of rescuing force of a violent crime. Known more for searches through inner-city Hollywood, children, Alan Carmichael embarks on his foul mouth and short temper than his following a treacherous trail filled with one last mission to rescue a teenager from way with words, Detective Weeks has drug lords to find the child’s mother. an abusive parent, but after the boy is written a novel. But just as Isola is rocked (American) safely hidden away, Alan begins to doubt by the murder of a mayoral candidate, the Lee Charles KELLEY his decision to intervene. (American) only copy of Ollie’s manuscript is stolen. Murder Unleashed Bill KNOX (American) 288pp Pb 15.95 The Man in the Bottle Ed McBAIN Kennel owner and ex-big city cop Jack 189pp Hb 42.95 The Frumious Bandersnatch Field cares more about dogs than he does Thane and Moss are asked to help 304pp Tp 29.95 about people, with the exception of his identify the body of a poacher who A novel of the 87th Precinct. In this brilliant lady-love, sexy local medical examiner Dr apparently killed himself while look at the music industry, McBain once Jamie Cutter. When a helpless canine is dynamiting a salmon pool, but there are again combines his mastery of the form unfairly accused of murdering a State two surprises: firstly, he had a companion with the fast-paced dialogue and intricate Supreme Court Justice in his car, Jack has who has now disappeared; and secondly, plotting that has become his signature. to get involved! (American) he was linked to an assassination attempt (American) Susan KELLY on a politician from Moscow. (Scottish) Alexander McCALL SMITH Cold Blood 276pp Hb 49.95 John LESCROART Morality for Beautiful Girls A Gregory Summers mystery. When The First Law 421pp Pb 17.95 224pp Pb 22.95 Sir John Hathaway retires to Newbury They date The No 1 Detective Agency #3. Continuing after defending the alleged killer of a back to the wilder the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, this newsreader, his family becomes the target days of San book finds her expanding her business to of vandalism and Sir John starts receiving Francisco’s vigilante take in the world of car repair and a death threats. (English) past, a private police beauty pageant. McCall Smith’s sense of William KIENZLE force that keeps humour and gentle charm have created a The Gathering 296pp Pb 15.95 watch for paying substantial cult following. (Scottish) A Father Koehler clients. Michael McCLELLAND mystery. Way back in Unfortunately, Sam Oyster Blues 343pp Pb 15.95 the 1940s, they had Silverman could no In this debut comic crime novel, Harry all been young longer afford special Harper desperately takes a job from two together. Six Detroit protection, and he mob goons to sail their boat to Miami adolescents moving may have paid with his life. Dismas with a coffin on board. Then he meets an step by measured Hardy, putting together a high-stakes oyster shucker called Jane Ellen Ashley step into the bosom lawsuit against the security firm, and then the trouble really rolls in. of the church. Or so suddenly finds himself defending a local (American) they believed. Now, bar owner accused in Silverman’s death. more than 50 years (American) later, one of the six Laura LIPPMAN ORDER ONLINE... has died a sudden, violent death, and Every Secret Thing388pp Tp 29.95 Koehler is sadly suspicious that someone Lippman steps outside her Tess in this tiny band of lifelong friends may Monaghan series to deliver her darkest, be responsible. But who and why? Before most troubling tale and vaults into the long, he has reason to believe he knows crime-fiction elite with a haunting story the shocking answer. (American) of murder, fate’s accidents and the stories we tell ourselves when we try to make sense of the unthinkable. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Judith McNAUGHT Jonathan NASAW Patricia POTTER Someone to Watch Over Me Fear Itself 470pp Pb 18.95 Cold Target 422pp Pb 15.95 494pp Pb 18.95 Is it possible to be scared to death? In the dead of Leigh Kendall revelled in her stellar FBI Special Agent Pender thinks so when night, Holly Broadway acting career and in her a man afraid of heights falls 19 stories to Matthews, the wife of marriage to Logan Manning, scion of an his death and a woman terrified of blood a New Orleans old New York family. When her husband is found with her wrists slashed. Could it Senator, takes her son finds the perfect mountain property for be that the apparent suicides are actually and flees for her life. their dream house, he decides to surprise the work of a twisted psychopath? At her mother’s Leigh with her first view of the site. (American) deathbed, lawyer Driving upstate on a winter’s night, Leigh Kris NELSCOTT Meredith Rawson is run off the road in the midst of a Thin Walls 387pp Tp 29.95 learns that she has a blinding blizzard. When she awakes in A Smokey Dalton mystery. Set sister and promises to the local hospital, seriously injured, the around Christmas 1969, this new novel find her. Two women are linked in a police inform her that her husband has finds the African American PI still living conspiracy of lies that could shatter their mysteriously disappeared, and Leigh, in Chicago with 11 year old son Jimmy lives and their dreams of love. although obviously distraught, becomes and still hiding from FBI agents, who (American) the focus of their suspicions. (American) know that Jimmy is the only witness to Michael PRESCOTT Deon MEYER what really happened to Martin Luther In Dark Places 371pp Pb 15.95 Heart of the Hunter419pp Tp 32.95 King, Jr. This time, though, Smokey and A brilliant female scientist on the When Johnny K is kidnapped and held Jimmy face new problems. (American) verge of a remarkable discovery in to ransom, his daughter turns to the only Hilary NORMAN psychiatric medicine. A troubled cop man she knows can help her, his old No Escape 392pp Pb 19.95 with a terrifying secret. A serial killer friend Tiny. The kidnappers want a disk Some people find it hard to trust Robin with plans for both of them. It begins with from her safe that contains extremely Allbeury, a wealthy lawyer and an expert the killer’s escape from a mental hospital. sensitive data, and she has 72 hours in on marital secrets. Allbeury runs an It ends in places darker than anyone’s which to deliver, or her father will die. unorthodox sideline, helping troubled dared to go before... (American) But there are those watching Tiny’s every wives escape from their abusive Michael PYE move, monitoring, waiting for him trip marriages. Lizzie Piper seems to have the Taking Lives (1999) up and lead them to what they want. perfect life, but nobody really knows 384pp Pb 21.95 (South African) what goes on inside a marriage, or what Since he was 17, Martin has been taking Tamar MYERS can happen behind closed doors. This is both lives and identities. Having just Custard’s Last Stand genuinely scary with touches of sheer killed art historian Christopher Hart, 249pp Pb 13.95 horror. (English) Martin takes on his plans to travel to A Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes. Oliver NORTH with Joe MUSSER Portugal, unaware that another art When Colonel George Custard decides to Mission Compromised historian investigating the disappearance build a glitzy new hotel in Hernia, 637pp Pb 18.95 of some valuable prints is trailing him. outraged residents protest the project. From Oliver North, bestselling author, Film tie in edition. (English) Soon after, the colonel is found shot to combat-decorated military hero and Julian RATHBONE death at the PennDutch Inn. Now, patriot, comes a blisteringly authentic As Bad As It Gets Magdalena Yoder must find out who novel of duty, treason, corrupted truth 261pp Hb 49.95 caused Custard’s last stand and save her and stolen honour, a breathtaking From a mugging in Nairobi, through beloved town. (American) adventure ripped from today’s headlines. meetings with lions and a Maasai Tim MYERS (American) warrior, to a truly scary escape from the At Wick’s End 179pp Pb 13.95 P J PARRISH sewer beneath Jomo Kenyatta A Candlemaking mystery. Upon his Island of Bones382pp Pb 15.95 International Airport, PI Chris Shovelin Great-Aunt Belle’s death, Harrison Black Set in the late 1980s, the newest faces beatings, corrupt police, shootings, inherits her candle shop. When he begins addition to Parrish’s Louis Kincaid wild elephants and a crazed killer who to suspect foul play in her death, he does mystery series, (Thicker Than Water Pb will not give up. (English) a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he is 18.95) lures readers in from the outset Christopher RICE playing with fire because somebody when a young woman’s bullet-ridden The Snow Garden wants Harrison to mind his own corpse is found tangled in mangrove 534pp Pb 17.95 beeswax... (American) roots on Florida’s beautiful, tropical In the darkening chill of winter, three Bill NAPIER seacoast. (American) Atherton University freshmen are being Shattered Icon 416pp Pb 19.95 James PATTERSON mysteriously drawn together by fate and As an antique map dealer in a 3rd Degree 400pp Tp 32.95 a compulsion they cannot comprehend. small English town, Harry Blake Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant But the intricate webs of deceit that they appreciates the quiet life. But when a DA Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet have spun to protect themselves are local landowner asks afternoon in San Francisco when a slowly twisted into shackles that chain him to value a 400- townhouse across the street explodes in them to their doom. Snowbound and year-old journal and flames. Soon a wave of violent incidents, trapped on the campus, the friends find 12 hours later he is all with links to political terrorism and themselves unwilling pawns in the brutally murdered, involving ‘August Spies’, sweeps through machinations of a malevolent force that Harry’s peace of mind the city. An upcoming economic summit has taken hold of Atherton; all their is shattered. What of the world’s most powerful nations will oldest fears, veiled passions and secret does the dusty old surely be a target. And the Women’s nightmares are about to come to life. journal contain? Murder Club has to get to the bottom of (American) (English) the violence before it is too late. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE MARCH 2004 www.abbeys.com.au 9 Michael RIDPATH MJ ROSE Carlene THOMPSON Fatal Error 439pp Pb 19.95 Sheet Music 326pp Pb 22.95 If She Should Die 418pp Pb 15.95 The year is 1999 and Internet From a seductive storyteller who Christine is plunged into her lost companies are springing up everywhere. dares to plumb the dark, passionate sister’s dark and mysterious world when Anything seems possible for those who depths of the heart and soul comes an her diary turns up unexpectedly. Clearly, think big. So when David Lane, a absorbing new erotic thriller that is also a in the days before her disappearance, cautious banker, is invited to help start up gripping tale of psychological suspense. Dara was certain somebody was stalking a dotcom, he decides that for once he will (American) her. As past melds hauntingly with do something dangerous. If only he had Zoe SHARP present, people who knew Dara are realised quite how dangerous! (English) Hard Knocks 320pp Pb 19.95 meeting tragic fates. Now, someone is Cynthia RIGGS A Charlie Fox watching Christine’s every move, The Cranefly Orchid Murders mystery #3. Charlie perhaps just the way they once watched 261pp pb 13.95 really did not care Dara, right before she died. If, indeed, she A Martha’s Vineyard mystery. To keep who shot dead her really did die! (American) eager developers off Martha’s Vineyard, ex-army comrade, Allan TOPOL poet-detective Victoria Trumbull searches Kirk Salter, during a Conspiracy 386pp Pb 17.95 for loopholes and finds a patch of bodyguard-training Topol’s bestseller Spy Dance (Pb endangered cranefly orchids. But she also course in Germany. 18.95) was hailed as an instant classic. discovers one of the developers’ But when old flame Now, he sets the stakes even higher in a underhanded lawyers pushing up Sean Meyer asks her treacherous international power play daisies. And if Victoria isn’t careful, a to go undercover and where the winner will control the single killer might take her off the endangered find out what happened she just couldn’t most influential office in the world. list and make her extinct! (American) bring herself to refuse. Keeping her nerve (American) David ROBBINS is not easy when events bring back fears M J TROW Last Citadel 424pp Tp 29.95 and memories she has worked so hard to Maxwell’s Inspection After the cataclysmic fall of forget. It is clear there are secrets at 271pp Hb 49.95 Stalingrad, Germany’s campaign in Einsbaden Manor that people are willing A Peter Maxwell mystery #9. Mad Max and Russia stood on a knife’s edge. Hitler had to kill to conceal. To find out what is his school Leighford High are up for their to break Russia quickly or the war would going on, Charlie must face up to her past four-yearly Ofsted Inspection, every be over. Thus ‘Operation Citadel’ was and move quickly, before she becomes teacher’s nightmare. By the third day the conceived. This was a plan to eliminate the next casualty. She expected training to atmosphere is decidedly fraught and the huge salient around the Russian city be tough, but can she graduate from this when one of the inspectors is found dead, of Kursk and trap the enormous Soviet school of hard knocks alive? (American) the police are called in. (Welsh) Army in a noose of German steel. The Georges SIMENON Judith VAN GIESON only trouble was that the Russians knew Maigret and the Ghost (1964) The Shadow of Venus it was coming... This is the story of that 140pp Pb 22.00 259pp Pb 13.95 battle through the eyes of a remarkable Maigret in Court (1960) A Claire Reynier mystery. The murder of a group of people - the men and women 126pp Pb 22.00 young woman takes rare book expert who fought it. All in all, 2m soldiers, 6000 The Friend of Madame Maigret (1950) Claire Reynier into Albuquerque’s dark tanks and 4000 aircraft fought in the 160pp Pb 22.00 streets, where she must shed light on the seven day offensive and after their defeat, The Hotel Majestic (1942) shadows of the past. (American) the Germans never took another step 140pp Pb 22.00 Ann WALDRON forward into the Motherland. (English) The Man on the Boulevard (1953) Death of a Princeton President David ROLLINS 170pp Pb 22.00 244pp Pb 13.95 Rogue Element 425pp Pb 19.95 Here are five more titles from the master Death is Academic series. When Princeton’s An explosion on board a 747 plunges of French crime fiction, re-released in the first female president is strangled, Joe Light and his fellow passengers into Penguin Modern Classics series. (French) Professor McLeod Delaney must face the everyone’s worst nightmare. The aircraft Gerald SEYMOUR administration’s stonewalling and a host plummets. On board, sheer panic. Traitor’s Kiss 540pp Pb 19.95 of shady suspects to discover who placed Indonesia claims it doesn’t know where Officially the Cold War is over. her highly esteemed former colleague on the wreckage is; ASIS discovers Between former enemies, the hand of permanent sabbatical. (American) otherwise. This is no accident and there friendship is exchanged in public. In Bing WEST are survivors. Sgt Tom Wilkes, Australian private the intelligence war goes on. The Pepperdogs 417pp Pb 17.95 Special Air Service, gets the call: Extract Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, At the end of a the survivors, learn the truth. Wilkes passes information to MI6. Suddenly, he three-month tour in leads his team through the Indonesian stops using the dead drop. It is time to get Kosovo, five jungle in a desperate covert battle to avert him out but a new breed plays the spy American Marine all-out war. John Birmingham says game now, men like Gabriel reservists are looking Rollins’ writing “Shrieks across the page Locke…(English) forward to going like a scramjet and hits home like a small Vicki STIEFEL home until one of the nuke.” (Australian) Body Parts 416pp Pb 15.95 men runs into a pack Karen ROSE Stiefel creates a tenacious but of bloodthirsty Have You Seen Her? vulnerable heroine in Massachusetts Serbian soldiers, and 500pp Pb 13.95 homicide counsellor Tally Whyte, who disappears. This is an Offering heart-racing thrills, both in the narrates this tale about a serial killer explosive novel of bedroom and the forensics lab, this nicknamed the Harvester. (American) high-tech warfare, international politics second romantic intrigue from Rose and the unbreakable bonds of loyalty (Don’t Tell Pb 15.95)) showcases her under fire. (American) growing talent. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Donald WESTLAKE Marcus WYNNE Paul DOHERTY God Save the Mark Warrior in the Shadows The Godless Man 303pp Pb 21.95 268pp Tp 32.95 340pp Pb 17.95 An Alexander the Great mystery. 334 AD. Every itinerant grifter, hypester, bunk Trading in his guns Alexander has smashed the Persian artist, short-conner, amuser, shearer, for a camera, Charley armies at the battle of the Granicus and is short-changer, green-goods worker, Payne finds his new roaming the Western Persian Empire like pennyweighter, ring dropper, and life as a forensic a hungry predator, living up to his yentzer to hit New York City considers photographer nickname of ‘the Wolf of Macedon’. his trip incomplete until he has also hit uneventful and Arriving in the great city of Ephesus, the Fred Fitch. Fred is the con-man’s version peaceful until he is success of his campaign is threatened by a of Monopoly’s Go: Pass Fred Fitch, called in to series of violent murders brought about collect $200 and photograph a by a high-ranking Persian spy known move on. What gruesome murder only as ‘the Centaur’. (English) happens to Fred scene. There are no Paul DOHERTY Fitch when his long- fingerprints and only one clue, a bizarre The House of Shadows lost Uncle Matt dies Aboriginal painting. When his partner 309pp Hb 59.95 and leaves Fred Bobby Lee and his family turn up dead, The Sorrowful $300,000, shouldn’t Charley returns to the way of the gun. But Mysteries of Brother happen to the ball in he will be fighting a war on a drug lord’s Athelstan. Southwark, a pinball machine. turf in the Australian outback. It is a fight 1380. A series of brutal (American) to the death that took place in the murders at a tavern Donald WESTLAKE Aboriginal dream world five centuries interrupts Brother The Scared Stiff before. (American) Athelstan’s rehearsals 247pp Tp 29.95 for the annual Some days you just might be better off HISTORICAL Christmas mystery dead. So it is that Barry Lee and Lola, his play. He resolves to beautiful South American wife and CRIME solve not only these partner in con artistry, set out to play the grisly deaths, but also their source, the globalisation of the insurance industry to Emily BRIGHTWELL Great Robbery of the Lombard treasure, their advantage. The story of their Mrs Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney which occurred in Southwark some 20 journey to Lola’s native Guerrera and 212pp Pb 15.95 years earlier. (English) their sure-fire scheme to pull off the A Victorian mystery. A dead man dressed Carol Nelson DOUGLAS perfect con, which begins with the like a vicar is propped against a church The Adventuress (1991) staging of Barry’s spectacular and very wall, clutching the address of an 393pp Pb 15.95 public accidental death, becomes abandoned, dilapidated cottage with a An Irene Adler mystery featuring Sherlock increasingly perilous as he attempts to human skeleton inside. Inspector Holmes. Europe, 1888. Our diva/detective negotiate his afterlife in a world he in no Witherspoon’s only prayer is to seek the and her bridegroom, handsome barrister way understands. To his surprise, some counsel of his housekeeper and secret Godfrey Norton, are honeymooning in of Lola’s more blunt-minded and ham- weapon, Mrs Jeffries, who proves that a Paris when they become embroiled in an fisted cousins are figuring that if the great crime solver’s work is never done. investigation: a drowned sailor’s body whole family’s going to get rich with (American) has been recovered from the Seine, and Barry Lee dead, he is not dead enough... David DICKINSON on his chest is a tattoo. This novel was (American) Death of an Old Master originally published as Good Morning, Stephen WHITE 314pp Hb 42.95 Irene. (American) The Best Revenge 512pp Pb 19.95 A murder mystery featuring Lord Francis Thomas EIDSON White shines a brilliant light on the Powerscourt #3. England, 1899. American The Missing (1995) 299pp Pb 18.95 darkness that hides just beneath the nouveau riches millionaires, whose new America, 1886. Old surface of ordinary lives, on the fears that world money carries off old masters’ Samuel Jones, broken cripple us and the prisons we create; paintings across the Atlantic, invade in body and soul, has prisons of the body, mind and spirit. This London’s art dealerships. Powerscourt ridden hard to reach thriller of runaway tension taps into our embarks on an odyssey through the his daughter’s remote most closely guarded fears, taking us on a treacherous world of art dealers and New Mexico ranch, so harrowing journey into a realm of terror picture restorers in pursuit of a master that he can die there. and pain, of love gone wrong and forger. (Irish) But Maggie Baldwin, vengeance gone mad. (American) David DICKINSON grown and with David WILLIAMS Death and the Jubilee288pp Pb 21.95 children of her own, Practise to Deceive A murder mystery featuring Lord Francis wants nothing to do 276pp Hb 49.95 Powerscourt #2. 1897. London is preparing with this man who abandoned her An Inspector Parry mystery. The cold- for Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee but early mother 30 years earlier to live with the blooded murder of Kevin Rees, Auxiliary on a February morning a corpse with no Indians. Nothing, that is, until renegade Nurse at the private Howell Clinic for head or hands is dragged out of the Apaches shoot Maggie’s husband and stroke victims, is greeted with sorrow by Thames near London Bridge. kidnap her oldest daughter. Then, she has all who knew him. But is Dr Edwin Powerscourt’s investigation leads him to no choice but to ride with the dying father Howell, maverick neuro-psychiatrist and a mansion in Oxfordshire where he she detests in a desperate attempt to co-owner of the clinic, just saving face realises that he and his family are in rescue her child before the girl disappears when he anxiously divines the crime was mortal danger. (Irish) forever into the vast twilight land of old the work of a burglar? (English) Mexico. Film tie-in edition. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE MARCH 2004 www.abbeys.com.au 11 Sylvian HAMILTON Matthew PEARL Stephen KNIGHT Gleemaiden 288pp Tp 32.95 The Dante Club 370pp Pb 22.95 Crime Fiction 1800-2000 A Sir Richard Stracchan mystery #3. Boston, 1865. A small group of elite 270pp Tp 40.00 Medieval England. Straccan has lost the scholars prepares to introduce Dante’s Detection, Death, Diversity. This is a full woman he loved to his enemies. His first vision of hell to America. But so does a analytic survey of crime fiction from its task is to find her. His second, to escort murderer. The powerful old guard of origins in the 19th century to the most the great bell, Gaudete, to its resting place Harvard College wants to keep Dante in contemporary developments. Knight in Durham. His third, to save from her obscurity, believing that the infiltration of explains how and why the various forms enemies the Gleemaiden of the title and such foreign superstitions will prove as of the genre evolved, explores major the mysterious child she protects. corrupting as the immigrants invading authors and movements, and argues that (Scottish) Boston Harbour. The members of the the genre as a whole has three parts: the Simon HAWKE Dante Club fight to keep their sacred early development of detection, the Much Ado About Murder literary cause alive, but their plans fall growing emphasis on death and the 234pp Tp 29.95 apart when a series of murders erupts modern celebration of diversity. The best A Shakespeare and Smythe mystery #3. through Boston and Cambridge. Only criticism is cited and the book provides Elizabethan England. Due to the plague, all this small group of scholars realises that full references and a helpful chronology, of London’s theatres have been closed, the gruesome killings are modelled on the making this a complete study of a forcing our intrepid duo to seek descriptions of Hell’s punishments from popular and still relatively under employment in other lines of work; Dante’s Inferno. With the police baffled, examined genre. (English) Smythe, smithing and Will, poeting. Then lives endangered and Dante’s literary Seth LINDER, Caroline MORRIS & a murder rocks all of London. The duo future at stake, the Dante Club must shed Keith SKINNER decides to solve the crime, but they must its sheltered literary existence and find a Ripper Diary 280pp Hb 42.95 rely on their wits to survive both the way to stop the killer. (American) The Inside Story. conspiracies and the cutthroat business of Candace ROBB Every bit as Elizabethan theatre. (American) The Fire in the Flint 311pp Tp 32.95 mysterious as the Alanna KNIGHT A Margaret Kerr mystery. This was Whitechapel The Gowrie Conspiracy advertised in the December 2003 Crime murders themselves, 249pp Hb 49.95 Chronicle but it did not arrive until the Ripper Diaries July 1660, Falkland February. Now in stock. (English) have intrigued and Palace, Fife. After infuriated both rescuing King James CRIME historical VI from a runaway researchers and horse, Tam Elidor NON-FFICTION Ripperologists since finds himself in they first came to favour. As the King’s John DICKIE light in 1992. Either one of the most new object of Cosa Nostra 479pp Tp 39.95 sensational finds of the 20th century or affection, Tam has A History of the Sicilian Mafia. It has been one of its most brilliant literary hoaxes, become the target for given many names since it was founded the diary of Jack the Ripper has created its jealous courtiers and in the mid-19th century: the Sect, the own tangled and tortuous history. It is their attentions are seriously hampering Brotherhood, the Honoured Society and this history the authors disentangle in a his investigation into the murder of now, Cosa Nostra. Yet, as times have work of literary sleuthing that offers a Margaret Agnew. (Scottish) changed, the Mafia’s subtle and bloody reassessment of the evidence and insight Michael KURLAND (editor) methods have remained the same. This into the personalities involved in Ripper My Sherlock Holmes 370pp Tp 32.95 book reconstructs the complete history of research. (English) Untold Stories of the great Detective. the Sicilian Mafia from its origins to the James MORTON “Purists may baulk, but this collection of modern day, from the lemon groves and Gangland Today 662pp Pb 19.95 Sherlock Holmes stories by a diverse group of sulphur mines of Sicily, to the streets of With organised gangs authors and imitators is extremely Manhattan. (English) making increasing use entertaining. Rather than adhering strictly to Denise LITTLE & Laura HAYDEN (editors) of technology to Conan Doyle’s narrative style, the featured The Official Nora Roberts Companion expand their empires, authors write original tales recounted by 480pp Tp 35.00 crime is more characters other than Dr John Watson. With insights into her life, work and international than it Drawn directly from the original canon, each career, as well as little-known facts about has ever been. This of these characters brings a new sensibility her most popular novels, this beautifully book charts the effects and adds a new dimension to the Holmes designed book celebrates Nora Roberts’s of a changing world legend. These characters, which include Irene enduring legacy of powerful, passionate on everything from Adler, Dr Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, both the storytelling. It contains: a complete, cross- prostitution to people first and the second Mrs Watson, Colonel referenced list of her books (including smuggling, identity Sebastian Moran and Billy the page boy, all those written as J D Robb) with trivia, theft to old-fashioned robbery. Morton view Holmes and his exploits through the quotes and family trees; a timeline of her covers both the current activities of well- prism of their own interests, experiences and career, with a list of major milestones; known gangs from the Mafia to the South relationships with the great detective. Most inspiring true stories of how her books American drug cartels, as well as several Holmes aficionados will welcome this have changed fans’ lives, a list of fan less familiar operations: the kings of delightful addition to the ever-growing clubs, photos and favourite lists; and crime in Israel; the Middle East, from mythology of their immortal fictional hero.” romance writers, industry insiders, where much crime in India is controlled; - Margaret Flanagan, Booklist. (Various) booksellers, reviewers and fans talk about the Canadian bikers’ war to control the her successes. Plus Roberts shares her drug trade, which has cost scores of lives travel adventures and discusses the fine of players and innocent bystanders alike. art of writing romance. (English) (English)

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