“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #246 july 2006

BOOKS & DVDS A number of books have TV series adapted from them. Here is a selection from our shelves: ANDREA CAMILLERI Inspector Salvo Montalbano is the fictional creation of Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri. Montalbano’s character and manner encapsulate much of Sicilian mythology – brooding philosophy, whip-smart dialogue, rugged beauty, superb food and of course astute detective work! I can heartily recommend both the books and the TV series (in Italian with English subtitles, and starring Luca Zingaretti): Books The Shape of Water, The Snack Thief, The Terracotta Dog, The Voice of the Violin (all Pb 19.95), Excursion to Tindari (Tp 30.00) and The Smell of the Night (Pb 27.00). DVDs Volume 1: Terracotta Dog, Shape of Water, Snack Thief, Voice of the Violin and Artist’s Touch (3-DVD set 49.95) Volume 2: A Trip to Tindari, The Sense of Touch, Montalbano’s Croquettes, The Scent of the Night and The Goldfinch and the Cat (3-DVD set 49.95) CAROLINE GRAHAM Nothing is what it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English countryside of Midsomer, as Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy soon discover. John Nettles stars as Inspector Barnaby and again I can recommend both the books and the TV series. Books Death of a Hollow Man, Death in Disguise, Faithful Unto Death, A Ghost in the Machine, The Killings at Badger’s Drift, A Place of Safety and Written in Blood (all Pb 18.95). DVDs (Midsomer Murders) Season 1: Badger’s Drift, Written in Blood, Hollow Man, Faithful Unto Death and Death in Disguise (3-DVD boxed set 59.95). Season 2: Death’s Shadow, Strangler’s Wood, Blood Will Out and Beyond the Grave (2-DVD boxed set 39.95). Season 3: Dead Man’s Eleven, Death of a Stranger, Blue Herrings, Judgement Day (2-DVD boxed set 39.95) Due late June SHANE MALONEY These stories feature Murray Whelan - minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister for Industry. All set in Melbourne, with just the right mix of humour, politics, crime and slime. The books are an absolute delight, while I loved the films and can only ask when are they going to make more. Books The Big Ask, Nice Try, Something Fishy and Stiff (all Pb 22.95) and The Brush Off (Pb 19.95). DVDs The Shane Maloney boxed set contains the two acclaimed films, The Brush Off and Stiff, starring David Wenham as Murray Whelan (49.95, or 29.95 separately).

We have a number of other crime DVDs, including Inspector Rex (4 series at 59.95 each) and many Agatha Christie titles. - Peter 2 Modern Crime Margery ALLINGHAM Karen Grigsby BATES Traitor’s Purse 207pp Pb 23.95 Chosen People 302pp Tp 29.00 Margery ALLINGHAM The Fashion in Shrouds Celebrated amateur detective Alex Powell Mystery #2. When Alex 287pp Pb 23.95 Albert Campion awakes in hospital Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookshop accused of attacking a police officer and on a rainy spring night, she is planning to First, there is a skeleton in a suffering from acute amnesia. All he can write a column on the author who is dinner jacket, then a corpse in a remember is that he was on a mission of reading and signing books there. But what golden aeroplane. After another vital importance to His Majesty’s govern- she gets instead is a first-hand look at the body, Albert Campion nearly makes a ment before his accident. On the run from murder of a controversial African- fourth... Both the skeleton and the corpse the police and unable to recognise even American writer. The death of James have died with suspicious convenience his faithful servant Lugg or his own Simpson Lee Hastings sends seismic for Georgia Wells, a monstrous but fiancée, Campion struggles desperately to shockwaves through LA’s black and white charming actress with a raffish entourage. put the pieces together while the very fate elite, revealing how some of the city’s well- Georgia’s best friend of England is at stake. 1941. (English) to-do are connected in ways they would just happens to be rather leave unmentioned. But trying to Valentine, a top Sheryl ANDERSON unravel those connections might mean couturiere and Killer Cocktail 325pp Pb 16.95 that the next time Alex’s name shows up in Campion’s sister. In Molly Forrester Mystery #2. Molly her paper, it won’t be as a byline, but in her order to protect needs a break from her job. Heading out to own obituary. (American) Valentine, Campion the Hamptons with her two best friends, must unravel a story Tricia and Cassady, to attend Tricia’s Claudia BISHOP of blackmail and brother’s engagement party and also to A Dinner to Die For ruthless murder. 1938. take a break from her heated but confusing 224pp Pb 16.95 (English) romance with an NYPD homicide Hemlock Falls Mystery. A nudie bar in detective, that’s the last thing Molly gets. Hemlock Falls? Not if the good ladies of Just after the party, the bride-to-be turns the village have anything to say about it! up dead, drowned in the pool at Tricia’s And just yesterday, the MacAvoy barn aunt’s house... (American) burned to a crisp, and a body was KEY Carla BANKS discovered inside. What is this town academic The Forest of Souls coming to? Quill and Meg have a feeling 487pp Pb 19.95 that the two incidents are connected… banking This gripping psychological thriller takes (American) the reader from 21st century Britain to the Edna BUCHANAN canine detectives darkest days of war-torn Eastern Europe. Shadows 356pp Pb 18.95 (English) Cold Case Squad clerical Alex BARCLAY #2. The Pulitzer Prize- Darkhouse 514pp Pb 19.95 winning ‘Queen of cosy/malice domestic Escaping New York for the Crime’ (USA Today) beautiful Irish Isle seemed the best way to follows up Cold Case culinary/food escape the past for NYPD detective Joe Squad (Pb 18.95) with an Lucchesi and his family. But following explosive second novel fbi the death of a girl in the local village, Joe about a dedicated, soon finds out that the killer is closer to complicated homicide feline detectives his past than he would care to remember. unit that breathes new life into old cases. In order to block a forensic From a broken childhood comes an unbreakable and deadly bond. In 1985, in high-rise developer’s plans to bulldoze the Shadows - a gorgeous 1920s mansion horse racing mystery a North Texas backwater, two teenage boys made a chilling pact that would in Miami - a resourceful young medical unite them forever in a dark and twisted preservationist approaches the police loyalty. Now one lies dead. And the man department’s Cold Case Squad. Years military responsible is going to pay. (American) ago, the high-profile owner of the Linwood BARCLAY Shadows was murdered and the crime native american Bad Guys 418pp Pb 16.95 has remained unsolved. Never content to Barclay is back with the hilarious let a trail stay cold, Lt KC Riley and her police procedural follow-up to his irreverent debut, (Bad detectives visit the long-abandoned Move Pb 16.95), in which paranoid pop pioneer house and discover a political/legal Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city- heartbreaking mystery. But the people savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tied to the Shadows are evasive and psychological tranquillity of the burbs, where planned paranoid, haunted by lies, guilt and communities prevail and fathers rest easy. tangled pasts. Only one thing is clear: the private eye Well, not quite… Zack is back and, much killer is still out there and this old, cold to his family’s relief, the work-at-home case is now hotter than ever… (American) romantic suspense science-fiction writer has left the house to David BUNN take a job as a features writer for the city Imposter 376pp Tp 29.95 sport paper. But now that his plotting can no Matt Kelley’s knack for concealing his identity is his greatest asset as a feder- spy longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant al agent. But when an assignment gets personal, discovering who he really is suspense/thriller to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city or his own imagination. may prove to be the toughest mission of AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB Zack is ready, or so he thinks. (Canadian) all. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Ken Bruen & Jason STARR Mary Higgins CLARK John CONNOR Bust 245pp Pb 16.95 Two Little Girls in Blue A Child’s Game Hard Case Crime. When Max Fisher, 322pp Hb 45.00 308pp Tp 29.95 who is cheating on his wife, hires a psy- Margaret and Steve Friday 31 December 1999. During the chopath to kill his wife, things go horribly Frawley celebrate the early hours of the morning in a luxury wrong for everyone involved. (American) third birthday of their central Leeds penthouse, intruders douse Candy CALVERT twin girls, Kelly and a terrified victim with petrol, set him Dressed to Keel Kathy, with an alight and throw him burning from the 231pp Tp 29.00 afternoon party in their ninth floor roof garden. DS Pete Bains is A Darcy Cavanaugh Mystery. Don’t ask ER new home, a modest on night duty with CID when the call nurse Darcy Cavanaugh why she’s fixer-upper in comes in. The body is quickly identified climbing the gangway of a cruise ship - Ridgefield, Connecticut. as Nicholas Hanley, a wealthy property she’ll mutter something about job The evening of the developer, but Bains’ attempts to pull burnout, Firefighter Sam, or that twins’ birthday party, Steve and Margaret together an enquiry stall when he cannot unfortunate incident with an R-rated attend a black-tie dinner in New York. locate Hanley’s lover, Anna Hart. peanut butter sandwich. The Fall Foliage When they return home, the police are in Unknown to Bains, Hart and her daugh- Tour with champagne, melting wedges of the house, and they are told that the ter are less than five miles away, kid- Brie and well-stuffed tuxedoes could babysitter had been found unconscious, napped at gunpoint and struggling to mean time to re-think her career, get her the children are gone, and a note stay alive... (English) life together and plant her Jimmy Choos demanding an $8,000,000 ransom had Thomas COOK firmly back on the ground. Only trouble been left in their room... (American) Red Leaves 287pp Tp 29.95 is, everything under Darcy’s feet is Ann CLEEVES Eric Moore has a stable life in a quiet moving, cruising full speed ahead toward Raven Black 375pp Tp 32.95 town. Then, on an ordinary night, his disaster. (American) It is a cold January morning and teenage son Keith baby-sits Amy Agatha CHRISTIE Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of Agatha Christie 1930s Omnibus of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter’s a neighbouring family. The next morning, 743pp Tp 39.95 eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on Amy is missing and Eric isn’t sure his son A brand new omnibus, bringing together the white ground, ravens circling above. is innocent. Caught in a vortex of doubt all four stand-alone novels Christie wrote It is the strangled body of her teenage and lies, Eric must find out what in the 1930s - The Sittaford Mystery, neighbour Catherine Ross... (English) happened to Amy, before his, and the Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Murder is Harlan COBEN community’s, suspicions are proved Easy and her acknowledged masterpiece Promise Me 370pp Tp 29.95 right. (American) And Then There Were None. It began with a promise... 2.17am: Agatha Christie 1940s Omnibus the phone rings on Myron Bolitar’s SPECIAL PRICE ON THE 694pp Tp 39.95 nightstand; at the other end of the line is NEW PATRICIA CORNWELL! The four stand-alone novels Christie Aimee Biel - a frightened teenager who wrote in the 1940s - N or M?, Towards has called the one adult who had Patricia CORNWELL Zero, Sparkling Cyanide and Crooked promised to help her if she ever got into At Risk 192pp Hb 27.95 House. any trouble. But Myron’s help will not be A Massachusetts state investigator is A Caribbean Mystery enough. Stumbling from his Manhattan called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, 256pp Hb 29.95 bed, he races down to pick her up from a where he is completing a course at the A facsimile, first edition hardback of this cold street corner and take her back to National Forensic Academy. His boss, the Miss Marple mystery. 1964 safety. But - against his better judgment - district attorney, attractive but hard- she persuades him to drop her at an The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side charging, is planning to run for governor. unknown address in the suburbs. This is 255pp Hb 29.95 As a showcase, she’s planning to use a a mistake that he lives to regret, for A facsimile, first edition hardback new crime initiative called At Risk. Its Aimee’s final wave from a darkened of this Miss Marple mystery. 1962 motto: “Any crime, any time.” In porch is not the end of the story... (English) particular, she’s been looking for a way to (American) employ cutting-edge DNA technology and Carol Higgins CLARK Jan COFFEY she thinks she’s found the perfect subject Burned 358pp Pb 18.95 Silent Waters 391pp Pb 14.95 in an unsolved, 20- A Regan Reilly Mystery. LA-based A fast-attack year-old murder in private detective Regan Reilly gets a call nuclear submarine Tennessee. If her from her best gal pal, urging her to come cuts silently through office solves the case, to Hawaii for one last girls’ weekend the waters of the North it ought to make them before Regan ties the knot with Jack “no Atlantic, hijacked by all look pretty good, relation” Reilly, and so she happily packs two dozen armed right? Her her bags. At the Waikiki Waters terrorists. The target: investigator is not so Playground and Resort, the body of New York City. sure, but before he Dorinda Dawes, the hotel’s gossipy PR Fighting for their lives can open his mouth, a woman, washes ashore wearing a aboard the hijacked shocking piece of valuable lei that once belonged to a submarine, ship violence intervenes... Hawaiian princess and was stolen from a superintendent Amy Russell and (American) museum in Honolulu 30 years ago. The Commander Darius McCann have only resort manager doesn’t believe that USUALLY 35.00 one hope for survival. With the lives of Dorinda drowned accidentally and millions at stake, they must play a OUR PRICE 27.95! persuades Regan to take on the case. The dangerous game of cat and mouse, where more she starts digging, the more danger capture would mean certain death. she is in. (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 David Stuart DAVIES (ed) Pete EARLEY Reg GADNEY Vintage Mystery & Detective Stories Lethal Secrets 341pp Pb 18.95 Immaculate Deception 1,276pp Pb 19.95 During the height of tensions 335pp Tp 29.95 This is a richly entertaining collection of between the Soviet Union and the United An assassin for hire: a stories from the golden age of crime fic- States, it was thought that the KGB may monster of cold tion - a period when crimes were solved have smuggled a nuclear bomb into the intellectual genius. by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth very heart of Washington DC. In Earley’s His homicidal drives with only his own intelligence to rely on. new thriller, this bomb is in the hands of are fuelled by a Within these pages you will find G K a band of Chechen rebels, lead by an voracious sexual Chesterton’s Mr Pond, Ernest Bramah’s insane terrorist, Movladi ‘the Viper’ appetite. Hungry for blind detective Max Carrados, Craig Islamov, who is threatening to detonate it revenge, his dark Kennedy ‘the American Sherlock unless his demands are met. The fate of genius plagues law Holmes’ and other tales by Charles the city rests in the hands of disgraced enforcement agencies Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling deputy US Marshal, Wyatt Conway, who worldwide. The and A C Doyle. (various) is reluctantly called into action by his FBI demonic Klaas-Pieter Terajima is back. Ted DEKKER and CIA rivals because he was once a The ruthless killer is engaged in an Black 408pp Pb 24.95 friend of Islamov before the freedom immaculate deception. He is hell-bent on The Circle #1. Fleeing his assailants fighter turned into an international the destruction of his arch-rival, the one through deserted alleyways, Thomas terrorist. (American) man who knows him intimately and Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a Earl EMERSON stands a chance of defeating him, private building. Then a silent bullet from the The Smoke Room 301pp Pb 16.95 investigator Alan Rosslyn. Rosslyn’s night clips his head and his world goes From the terror of a lightless, smoke- pursuit requires him to overcome his black. From the blackness comes an clogged building to the secrets kept by terrifying obsession with Terajima and he amazing reality of another world, one the men and women who trust their plunges into the nightmare worlds of where evil is contained. This is an partners with their lives, Emerson knows powerful private security firms and the incredible story of evil and rescue, the world of fire-fighting like no other violent maelstrom of Russian exiles, who betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and author, and writes about it with passion are masters of conspiracy: the billionaire a terrorist’s threat unlike anything ever and honesty. In his remarkable new oligarchs, portrayed with chilling seen before. thriller, he fuses together a gripping accuracy. (English) White 370pp Pb 24.95 drama with unforgettable scenes of peril Shane GERICKE The Circle #3. Thomas Hunter has only that, in this realm, can explode at any Blown Away 329pp Pb 16.95 days to survive two separate realms of second. (American) Working her first homicide case, danger, deceit and destruction. The fate Robert FLEMING rookie cop Emily Thompson comes face- of both worlds now rests on his unique Fever in the Blood 316pp Pb 14.95 to-face with a serial killer who, deter- ability to shift realities through his Eddie Stevens is burning inside - and mined to make her his greatest trophy, dreams, the charge given to a small he’s burning mad at the world. He’s mad forces her into a nightmarish realm of ragtag group known as The Circle, and at the family he lost - his parents and sis- horror where she makes a shocking dis- the forbidden love of a most unlikely ters viciously killed by a gang in their covery that is linked to her past. woman. Enter the great pursuit, where own home. And he’s mad at the foster (American) Thomas and a small band of followers family that ‘rescued’ him, headed up by a Victor GISCHLER must decide quickly who they can trust, powerful Harlem congressman who sees Shotgun Opera 305pp Pb 16.95 both with their own lives and the fate of Eddie as a campaign ploy. But mainly, Mike Foley can never millions. Eddie is mad at himself for getting caught forget the night he Showdown 357pp Pb 24.95 by the cops with blood on his hands. tagged along with his When a stranger named Marsuvees Blood he should have washed off right brother on a job for the Black appears in Paradise, he brings with away. He was sloppy this time. It won’t mob that ended in a hail him a message of hope and love. Or is it happen again. Because Eddie knows that of bullets. Now his death and hate? He seems to know too the fever that ignites his rage is wasted, brother is dead, Mike’s much about the town’s many unspoken unless it’s put to use. (American) making wine in secrets, while he holds the greatest secret Earlene FOWLER Oklahoma, and life is of them all. As black clouds and Delectable Mountains almost as good as it gets when you’ve sandstorms envelop the town, it becomes 325pp Pb 18.95 been hiding out for 40 years. Until his almost impossible to get in or out. It Benni Harper Mystery past comes calling... (American) becomes apparent that Paradise is being #12. When the musical isolated for a reason. But why? director of Benni Three 352pp Pb 24.95 Harper’s church is called Imagine answering your mobile phone away, she finds herself one day to a mysterious voice that gives ‘volunteered’ to take you three minutes to confess your sin. If over a children’s play you don’t, he’ll blow up the car you’re already in rehearsal. But driving! You barely manage to exit the the production comes to heavy traffic and ditch the car when, pre- a screeching halt when cisely three minutes later, your car blows Benni discovers the badly beaten body of sky high. As the media and police the church handyman right in front of the descend on the scene, your world altar. With a growing cast of suspects, changes forever. So begins a nightmare and a small girl as the only witness to the that grows with progressively higher crime, Benni must unravel a plot of theft stakes. (American) and murder before it’s curtains for her. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Robert GODDARD A J HARTLEY Georgette HEYER Never Go Back 351pp Tp 32.95 The Mask of Atreus Death in the Stocks Harry Barnett is leading a contented life 387pp Pb 19.95 298pp Pb 22.95 in Vancouver with his wife and daughter An obscure museum’s dead proprietor A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And when he is brought back to England by the lies in a secret room surrounded by one of an unaccountable murder... An English death of his mother. Two old the world’s most astonishing collections Bobbie returning from night patrol finds a acquaintances from his National Service of Greek antiquities. Only a priceless corpse in evening dress locked in the days track Harry down to his mother’s Mycenaean death mask has been taken, stocks on the village green. He identifies house - a lavish reunion has been along with the bones of a legendary hero the body immediately. Andrew Vereker organised to mark the 50th anniversary of thought to exist only in ancient myth. was not a well-loved man, and narrowing their RAF days. Harry decides to go. But Looted by the Nazis, the treasures are still down the suspects is not going to be an the apparent suicide of one of their being sought by those whose dreams of easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt, number shatters the holiday atmosphere. glory remain undefeated. The mask is an eccentric and hardly cooperative. It’s And when another comrade dies soon unparalleled discovery that will be a force another case for the resourceful after their arrival, Harry is gripped by a for devastating retribution in the wrong Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off sense of foreboding. (English) hands. But by the time museum curator on the trail of a killer so cunning that even Judith GOULD Deborah Miller learns the truth, it may be his consummate powers of detection are Dreamboat 379pp Pb 18.95 too late not only to save herself, but to tested to their limits. 1935 (English) A month-long trans-Atlantic reveal to the world the secret she has Georgette HEYER cruise is the kind of luxury Crissy only uncovered. (American) They Found Him Dead dreamed of. Now it’s coming true, along Kenneth HARVEY 310pp Pb 22.95 with her fantasies about such men as Dr Inside 282pp Tp 32.95 The 60th birthday party of Silas Kane was Luca Santo and Greek tycoon Mark Vilos, 14 years after being wrongfully convict- marred by argument and dissension both of whom promise blissful liberation ed of murder, Myrden is pardoned and amongst his family. And then, the morn- from her inhibitions. Torn between her released from prison. Stepping back into ing after the celebrations, Kane is found desires for two dashing, mysterious men, the world, he feels overwhelmed and dis- dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that she sails headlong into exquisitely orientated on the outside. When he returns Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is inviting, and inescapably dangerous, to his old neighbourhood, a street where confirmed when the coroner returns a waters... (American) violence lurks behind practically every verdict of death by misadventure. But Heather GRAHAM door, he finds himself out of place and then, Kane’s nephew and heir is mur- Island 376pp Tp 27.95 ambivalent to his wife (who is living in dered, and threats are made on the next in A slice of paradise in the turquoise another man’s house), to his friends (who line to the fortune, throwing a new and waters of southern Florida, the island is a want to both celebrate and provoke fur- sinister light on Silas Kane’s death. 1937 lush, breathtaking sanctuary. Few can ther violence), and to the $1,000,000 com- (English) resist its allure or its primitive beauty, but pensation he receives from the govern- Joanna HINES fewer still know its secrets. On a weekend ment. What he wants is to get his daugh- The Murder Bird 374pp Pb 29.95 vacation with her brother and niece, Beth ter, now married to an abusive man, and Kirsten Waller, the acclaimed and well- Anderson is unnerved when a stroll on his beloved granddaughter out of that known poet, is found dead in the bath in the beach reveals what appears to be a neighbourhood. A dazzling novel about her remote cottage in Cornwall. The police skull. She instantly recalls the retired the institutions we create in order to keep claim it is suicide, but her daughter couple who disappeared off the coast a people confined, and about a destructive Samantha refuses to believe her mother few months earlier. As a stranger family shutting off its children from life’s would take her own life and sets out to approaches, Beth panics and covers the vast possibilities. (Canadian) prove it was murder. At the time of evidence. But when she later returns to John Twelve HAWKS Kirsten’s death, she was working on her the beach, the skull is gone! (American) The Traveller 605pp Pb 19.95 new masterpiece - a poem called The Sophie HANNAH Two brothers in Los Angeles may be Murder Bird. But now the poem is missing, Little Face 357pp Tp 32.95 among the last surviving members of a together with her journal. (English) Alice’s baby is two weeks old when once-powerful secret society known as Naomi HIRAHARA she leaves the house without her for the the Travellers, but their lives are in Snakeskin Shamisen first time. On her eager return, she finds danger. Maya is hiding in plain sight in 255pp Tp 27.00 the front door open, her husband David London. The 26-year-old has abandoned A Mas Arai Mystery. When Mas Arai - a asleep on their bed upstairs. She rushes the dangerous obligations pressed upon curmudgeonly LA gardener, Hiroshima into their baby’s room and screams. “This her by her father, and chosen instead to survivor and inveterate gambler - hears isn’t our baby! Where’s our baby?” Her live a normal life. But Maya comes from a about a $500,000 win from a novelty slot increasingly hostile husband swears she long line of people who call themselves machine, he’s torn between admiration must be either mad or lying. The DNA Harlequins - a fierce group of warriors and derision. But the stakes are quickly test will take a week. One week later, willing to sacrifice their lives to protect raised when the winner, a friend of his pal before the test has been taken, Alice and the Travellers. (American) GI Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just the baby have disap- days later. The last thing Mas wants to do peared. Run away, is stick his nose in someone else’s business, abducted, murdered? but at GI’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees The police who dis- to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin missed her baby- shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical swap story must find instrument) left at the scene of the crime. out. Their investiga- He suddenly finds himself caught up in a tions reveal dark inci- dark mystery reaching from the islands of dents in David’s past, Okinawa to the streets of LA, a world of like the murder of his heartbreaking memories, deception and ex-wife... (English) murder. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Susan HOWACH Paul JASKUNAS Laurence KLAVAN Tales of Murder and Mystery Hidden 307pp Pb 22.00 The Shooting Script Omnibus 566pp Pb 26.95 Maggie Wilson lies on her bedroom 253pp Pb 16.95 The Shrouded Walls - When her parents floor. She is unconscious, her pulse is Establishing shot: New York City, present die in a road accident, Marianne loses her slow, she is bleeding from three wounds, day. Zoom in on a run-down tenement home and all her worldly goods. She faces but she is still alive. And she knows who building, somewhere west of Times life as a governess until she meets Axel attacked her. Now, six years later, Maggie Square, the home of Roy Milano, a 30ish, Branson. A remote house in the Kent is forced to rethink everything she divorced typesetter who lives for the Marshes is now her home. But distrust of believed. Her testimony was enough to movies. In fact, by pursuing the her husband and fear of the house seem put her husband behind bars. But another legendary uncut print of Orson Welles’s to roll in as steadily as the sea mist... man has confessed to the crime. Alone in The Magnificent Ambersons, Roy has April’s Grave - three years after they her house with her memories, surround- become something of a minor celebrity broke up, Karen and Neville decide to ed by police reports, photographs and among the fellow misfit film fanatics he resume their life together, and they return court records, Maggie is determined to caters to in his homemade newsletter, to the remote Highland croft where April, recover the truth about that night. Trivial Man. But there’s nothing trivial Karen’s sister, had shattered their (American) when Roy’s old rival Abner Cooley marriage. Since then, the selfish and Linda JOHNSTON shows up with the words “someone is beautiful April has vanished... The Devil Fine Feathered Death trying to kill me” on his lips. (American) on Lammas Night - When Tristan Poole 260pp Pb 16.95 Joyce & Jim LAVENE moved to Colwyn Court in a remote Kendra Ballantyne Pet Sitter Mystery #3. A Fruit of the Poisoned Tree seaside village, was it to form a nudist partner at Kendra’s law firm is found 262pp Pb 16.95 group? Or was it, as Nicola Morrison murdered - and the only witness is of the Garden Mystery #2. Everyone suspects suspected, for something much more avian persuasion. (American) Park Lamonte’s wife killed him for the sinister? (English) Christy KENNEALLY ten-million-dollar insurance policy. But India INK The Remnant 312pp Tp 32.95 Peggy, of The Potting Shed, has a Blush With Death The Pope is dying. In the catacombs of growing suspicion there’s more to the 272pp Pb 16.95 San Domatilla, deep beneath the streets of story-and sets out to dig up the truth. Bath and Body Mystery #2. The series that Rome, a militant group of disaffected (American) pampers readers, including beauty and priests are urged to wage a new Mary LOGUE spa tips! When a pushy saleswoman at a Inquisition. As the priest Michael Poison Heart 262pp Pb 16.95 rival boutique winds up dead, Persia Flaherty accepts a new appointment to Claire Watkins Vanderbilt of Venus Envy steps out from the Vatican department run by the Mystery #4. Fall comes behind the counter to find the killer. African-American cardinal J Arthur to Pepin County with a (American) Thomas, he enters a state within a state vengeance as Deputy P D JAMES where priests vie for influence and Sheriff Claire Watkins The Murder Room power. A former US Marine, Flaherty confronts a new evil 540pp Pb 19.95 finds himself in a different kind of war, festering beneath the When Commander Dalgliesh is made all the more deadly because both placid surface of the persuaded to visit the Dupayne, a private sides wear the same uniform and nothing Wisconsin farm museum on the edge of Hampstead is as it seems. In the shadow of the Pope’s community. A refugee Heath, he has no idea he will return a final days, Michael Flaherty steps into the from the Twin Cities, week later under very different crosshairs of those who ruthlessly pursue Claire has slowly adapted to small-town circumstances. One of the family trustees the ultimate prize - the Church itself. life, especially now that she loves and has been horribly murdered and They are ‘the Remnant’. (Irish) lives with Rich Haggard. But in this rural Dalgliesh is called in to investigate. Jonathon KING area, other folks are dangerously restless. (English) A Killing Night 334pp Pb 19.95 One is Daniel Reiner, a wealthy part-time Peter JAMES Max Freeman resident who’s been buying up too much Looking Good Dead has been working land, at least as far as the locals are 405pp Tp 32.95 more or less officially concerned. Another is gambling addict Roy Grace #2. Tom Bryce did what any as a private and aging gold digger Patty Jo Tilde, who decent person would do. But within investigator in South recently married a widower 20 years her hours of picking up the CD that had been Florida when he gets senior. Patty is itching to inherit her left behind on the train seat next him, and a call from Detective husband’s property, sell it to Reiner, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is Sherry Richards, who leave the countryside behind. The only the sole witness to a vicious murder. Then was once his lover. stumbling block – her husband must die. his young family are threatened if he goes Three female And he soon conveniently does, under to the police. But supported by his wife, bartenders have gone suspicious circumstances. (American) Kellie, he bravely makes a statement to missing and Sherry thinks that there may Greg LOOMIS the murder enquiry team headed by be a serial killer out there. A former cop Julian Secret 370pp Pb 16.95 Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, a buddy of Max’s called O’Shea has become Lang Reilly Thriller #2. While try- man with demons of his own - including the prime suspect and Sherry asks Max to ing to find the truth surrounding the mur- his missing wife - to contend with. From check him out. O’Shea has a history of der of his best friend, an author in the that moment, the killing of the Bryce fam- violence, rule-breaking and alcoholism. process of writing a controversial book, ily becomes a mere formality - and a gris- Max wants to believe in his innocence, Reilly becomes caught in a web of mys- ly attraction. Kellie and Tom’s deaths but when it emerges that O’Shea tery and intrigue leading all the way back have already been posted on the internet. previously dated two of the missing to the Roman Empire and the founding of You can log on and see them on a website. women, he’s not so sure. (American) the Catholic Church. (American) They’re looking good dead. (English)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Stuart MACBRIDE Gregory McDONALD Cormac MILLAR Dying Light 424pp Tp 32.95 Fletch Reflected 222pp Tp 29.00 The Grounds 366pp Tp 28.00 It is Fletch’s newfound son Jack has just King’s College, Dublin, an ancient summertime in the heard from an old flame who is about to and thoroughly mediocre institution, is in Granite city. The sun marry a billionaire’s son – that is until her crisis. It is also Seamus Joyce’s alma is shining, the sky is future father-in-law suffers several near- mater. When Seamus is hired to provide a blue - and people are fatal accidents. The potential victim – the consultant’s report on the university for dying! It starts with a inventor of the perfect mirror, which an American consortium, he doesn’t have prostitute, stripped allows people to see themselves exactly as any idea what he’s in for: a poisonous naked and beaten to others do – lives in his own compound, so brew of sexual intrigue, professional death in the heart of Jack gets a job as a pool hand on the estate backstabbing and murder. (Irish) Aberdeen’s red light to get closer to the action. 1994 (American) Denise MINA district. For DS Cody McFADYEN The Field of Blood 543pp Pb 21.95 Logan MacRae, it’s a bad start to another Shadow Man 404pp Tp 29.95 In Glasgow, a toddler goes missing, bad day. Only a few short months ago, he FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no snatched from the front garden of his was the golden boy of Grampian police. stranger to the darker recesses of the home. But while the city braces itself for But one botched raid later, he’s palmed human mind. But nothing could have the discovery of a lone sexual predator, off on a DI everyone knows is a jinx, prepared her for the day she had to watch the police are led to the doors of two waiting for the axe to fall with all the her husband and daughter die at the young boys. Paddy Meehan has just start- other rejects in the Screw-up Squad. hands of a serial killer. She bears the ed work on the Scottish Daily News, where Logan’s not going to take it lying down. scars, mental and physical. Most people she dreams of becoming an investigative He’s determined to escape DI Steel and would run - from work, from life, from journalist. Although everyone at the her unconventional methods, and the best everything associated with the pain of a paper believes the boys acted on their way to do that is to crack the case in shattered existence. But Smoky doesn’t own, she thinks there is more to it and double-quick time. (Scottish) know how to run, so when the job that begins to ask awkward questions. Guillermo MARTINEZ has defined her life comes calling once Shunned by those closest to her, she finds The Oxford Murders again with the news that her best friend herself dangerously alone. (English) 197pp Pb 22.95 from high school has been brutally mur- Manuel MONTALBAN On a balmy summer’s day in Oxford an dered, she finds herself back in the firing The Man of My Life old lady who once helped decipher the line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop 217pp Pb 27.95 Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a at nothing to confront her. (American) When the son of a rich financier is cryptic, anonymous note containing only Anthony McGOWAN murdered, Carvalho is called upon to the address and the symbol of a circle, Mortal Coil 336pp Pb 22.00 investigate his mysterious death. In his Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, Matthew Moriarty has messed things quest for the killer, Carvalho has to arrives to find the body. More murders up before, but not on this scale. When he infiltrate the world of Satanism and follow - an elderly man on a life-support helps out a friend by working in a night- religious sects. Torn between two women machine is found dead with needle marks club, he gets on the wrong side of the - his on-off partner Charo and her eternal in this throat; the percussionist of an wrong man - local gangster Bernie hesitations, and the enigmatic Yes, a lover orchestra at a concert at Blenheim Palace Mueller. Kicking him out of the club was from his youth - the professional and dies before the audience’s very eyes. The one thing, but then screwing his wife? Not personal merge, and a devastating killings are seemingly unconnected, a good idea. Mutilated and beaten within betrayal leaves Carvalho fighting for his except for notes appearing in the maths an inch of his life, Moriarty sinks into a life. (Spanish) department, for the attention of Seldom. world of pain and drug addiction. Then, Richard MONTANARI Why is he being targeted as the recipient when he’s bouncing along the bottom, he The Skin Gods 395pp Tp 32.95 of these coded messages? (Argentinean) gets a call for help. An old friend, Ju Back on the Alexander McCALL SMITH Flaherty - enigmatic, crazy, talented and force after taking a Friends, Lovers, Chocolate once the bright hope of British pop music - bullet during the arrest 297pp Pb 24.95 has disappeared half-way through record- of a sadistic murderer, Isabel Dalhousie #2. As an Edinburgh ing his great come-back album. The record Detective Kevin Byrne philosopher, Isabel is certain of where she company needs to find him and Moriarty warily returns to police stands. She can review a book called In is their best hope. The search leads him headquarters. He Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, into mortal danger and back into the roots cannot shake the but real life is a bit more challenging, par- of friendship, then on to a final confronta- memory of the Rosary ticularly when it comes to her feelings for tion with an old enemy. (English) Killer’s innocent Jamie, a younger man who should have Andy McNAB victims or his growing sense that the evil married her niece, Cat. When Cat takes a Aggressor 476pp Pb 19.95 has not been vanquished. When he and break in Italy, Isabel agrees to run her del- Nick Stone seems to be living his his partner, Detective Jessica Balzano, are icatessen. One of the customers, she dis- dream, as he steers his camper van around called in on a bizarre case, his gravest covers, has recently had a heart trans- the surfing and parachuting centres of suspicions are confirmed. (American) plant and is now being plagued by mem- Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig Casey MORETON ories that cannot be rationally explained behind him and a beautiful young The Greater Good and which he feels do not belong to him. backpacker at his side. But when he 436pp Pb 18.95 Isabel is intrigued. But she still has time to witnesses on TV the massacre of children A high-velocity political thriller from a think about the things that possess her - in a terrorist siege in the other side of the gifted first-time novelist follows the hunt things like love and friendship, and, of world, long-suppressed memories are for a videotape that terrifyingly reveals course, temptation. The last of these triggered and Nick finds himself Washington’s deadliest secret: the comes in many forms - chocolate, for catapulted once more into working for the shocking identity of the vice president’s example, or seductive Italians... (Scottish) American secret services - only this time, assassin. (American) of his own free will. (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Ryu MURAKAMI Mark NYKANEN James PATTERSON In the Miso Soup 180pp Pb 21.95 Search Angel 356pp Pb 16.95 Beach Road 308pp Tp 32.95 It’s just before New Year and Frank, an A riveting suspense thriller about the Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy’s overweight American tourist, has hired reuniting of birth mothers with their client list is woefully small. Occasional Kenji to take him on a guided tour of adopted children and the madman who real estate sales barely keep him in paper Tokyo’s nightlife. But Frank’s behaviour is preys on them. (American) clips. When he is hired to defend a local so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a hor- Leonard PADURA man accused in a triple murder that has rible suspicion: his client may in fact have Havana Black 261pp Tp 32.95 the East Hampton world in an uproar, he murderous desires. Although Kenji is far Lt Mario Conde Mystery #2. The knows that he has found the case of his from innocent himself, he unwillingly brutally mutilated body of Miguel lifetime. (American) descends with Frank into an inferno of evil Forcade is discovered washed up on a Kate PEPPER from which only his 16-year-old girlfriend, Havana beach. Head smashed in by a One Cold Night Jun, can possibly save him. (Japanese) baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull 309pp Pb 16.95 Warren MURPHY knife. Forcade was once responsible for Detective Dave Strauss is still haunted by Destroyer #143: Bad Dog the confiscation of art works from the the one case he couldn’t solve. A girl 246pp Pb 16.95 bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution. Had vanished off the streets of Brooklyn with Lou MacMayor, president of the Institute he really returned from exile just to visit only a trail of blood and a series of of Nationalised Humane Health Care, has his ailing father? This novel evokes the untraceable phone calls to hint at her fate. the solution to America’s health insur- disillusion of a generation, many of them Now the cold dark night has engulfed ance problems. He’s figured out how to veterans of the war in Angola, discover- another girl - part of his own family. take a huge bite out of costs by using bril- ing the corruption of those who preceded Dave and his wife know 14-year-old Lisa liantly trained Swedish Elkhounds to them. Yet it is a eulogy of Cuba, its life of has not run away and they know her sniff out, then snuff out, those costly dis- music, sex and the great friendships of disappearance is not a just a tragic ease-carrying people who send premi- the people who elected to stay and fight coincidence. When the first phone call ums skyrocketing. (American) for survival. (Cuban) comes, they know she’s not alone. Tamar MYERS Linda PALMER (American) Cane Mutiny 355pp Pb 16.95 Love You Madly Richard PRICE Den of Antiquity Mystery #13. 307pp Pb 16.95 Freedomland (Film Tie-in) Abigail Timberlake Washburn under- Daytime Drama Mystery. Soap-opera 546pp Pb 21.95 stands the antiques game is a gamble - so producer Morgan Tyler is enlisted to A white woman, bloody and in shock, she doesn’t know what to expect when investigate when a TV hunk is plagued stumbles into a hospital claiming she has she wins the bidding for the contents of by death threats and a secret stalker. been car-jacked by a black man and that an old locker that has been sealed up for (American) her son is in the back seat. So begins the years. It’s a delightful surprise when she Sara PARETSKY hunt for the culprit, and the truth, which discovers inside a collection of exquisite Fire Sale 401pp Pb 19.95 slowly emerges. 1998 (American) old walking sticks, and a not-so-delight- A nagging conscience makes VI Sheila QUIGLEY ful one when she pulls out a decrepit gym Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the Living on a Prayer bag containing a human skull. The last girls’ basketball team at her South Side 375pp Tp 32.95 thing the diminutive South Carolina alma mater, which in turn leads her to the A week before Christmas, Debbie antiques dealer needs is to be suspected headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail Stansfield’s life falls apart. Her son - her of foul play. So she grabs CJ, her chatty empire where VI hopes to get desperately funny, cheeky, kind Richard - has been assistant and future sister-in-law, and needed funds for the struggling squad. found hanging from a tree at the Seven heads out to search for a killer they can But conscience seems to be in short supply Sisters. The police think it’s suicide, but stick it to. (American) at By-Smart, with the exception of Billy Debbie won’t - can’t - accept that. Tom NEALE Bysen. He’s the teenage grandson of the Richard’s four friends know something Copper Kiss 310pp Tp 32.95 chain’s gruff, tight-fisted founder. And about his death. DI Lorraine Hunt can FBI agent Vincent Piper is back in when Billy disappears, along with a feel it. The teenagers are clearly terrified London, determined not to screw up this mysterious document much desired by about something, but they’re not about to time. But the love of his life, high-class By-Smart’s management team, VI is tell. (English) call girl Celeste Young, is in trouble. Her hurled onto a twisted, body-strewn path Ruth RENDELL brother is putting together an online sex that runs through Chicago’s dirtiest End in Tears 376pp Pb 19.95 blog, but one-by-one the call girls are places, and reveals some of its dirtiest A lump of concrete, deliberately murdered. Piper works his way deeper secrets. (American) dropped from a little stone bridge over a into the case and discovers the US gov- Robert B PARKER relatively unfrequented road, kills the ernment is involved, and that people are Cold Service 305pp Pb 19.95 wrong person. The driver in the prepared to pay a terrible price for their When Spenser’s closest ally, Hawk, following car is spared. But only for a political ambitions. (English) is brutally injured and left for dead while while... One member of the local press is Carla NEGGERS protecting bookie Luther Gillespie, he gunning for the Chief Inspector, Breakwater 375pp Pb 14.95 embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate distinctly unimpressed with what he Three months ago, Quinn Harlowe his friend in body and soul. Spenser regards as old-fashioned police methods. left the high-pressure hallways of the quickly learns that the Ukrainian mob is But Wexford, with his old friend and Justice Department to become an inde- responsible for the hit, but finding a way partner, Mike Burden, and two new pendent consultant and have more control into their tight-knit circle is not nearly so recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, over her life - maybe even have a life. But simple. Their total control of the town of pursue their inquiries with the hallmark the nirvana of her new gig is short-lived Marshport, from the bodegas to the police diligence and humanity that make when Quinn discovers her friend and for- force to the mayor’s office, isn’t just a sign Rendell’s detective stories so enthralling, mer colleague Alicia Morrow dead out- of rampant corruption - it’s a form of exciting and touching. (English) side Quinn’s bayside cottage. Suicide? arrogance that only serves to ignite Quinn is doubtful. (American) Hawk’s desire to get even. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Michael RIDPATH John SAUL Veronica STALLWOOD On the Edge 416pp Pb 19.95 Perfect Nightmare 364pp Pb 18.95 Oxford Letters 313pp Pb 19.95 From his past as an RAF fighter pilot Every parent’s When Kate Ivory returns from hol- to his job as a bond trader in the City, nightmare becomes iday, a phone call from a concerned Alex Calder is a man known for taking reality for Kara friend gives her some rather alarming big risks and winning. But when Marshall when her news. Apparently Kate’s normally colleague Jennifer Tan decides to pursue daughter, Lindsay, vibrant and energetic mother, Roz, is a a sexual harassment case against her boss, vanishes from her shadow of her former self, and looks very Calder witnesses the ugly and tragic side bedroom during the ill indeed. When Kate visits her mother, of his world. For Jen commits suicide and night. The police Roz sends her away, insisting that her Calder quits in disgust. One year on, suspect she is just new friends, the Freemans, are taking Calder is running a flying school in another moody care of her. Although the couple seems Norfolk. But the past won’t disappear. teenage runaway, kind-hearted, something about them dis- (English) angry about having turbs Kate. Are they more interested in Michael ROBERTS to leave her school and friends because her mother’s new-found wealth than in Patrick’s Alphabet 229pp Tp 32.95 her family is moving. But Lindsay’s her health? (English) When a teenage couple are found mur- recent eerie claim – that someone invaded James SWAIN dered in their car, a boy called Adam her room when the house was opened to Deadman’s Poker Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, prospective buyers – drives Kara to fear 350pp Pb 16.95 and a manhunt begins, but the letter A is the worst: a nameless, faceless stalker has Tony Valentine Mystery #5. Tony found blazoned on the wall at the murder walked the halls of her home in search of Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. scene. When the other letters of the alpha- more than a place to live. (American) He’s tossed them out of gambling casinos bet start appearing in sequence all over Angela SAVAGE from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and town, each immaculately painted in red, a Behind the Night Bazaar Monaco. But though Tony has never met seemingly random act of violence 289pp Pb 22.95 a scam he couldn’t crack, his son and appears to be part of a bigger and more Who said crime doesn’t pay? Australian partner, Gerry, has just walked into one terrifying picture. (English) expat Jayne Keeney lives in Thailand and with a body count. What started with a David ROSENFELT works as a PI in Bangkok. When she conman’s deathbed confession turns into Sudden Death 305pp Pb 16.95 heads north to Chiang Mai to visit her a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during Kenny Schilling is the new star good friend Didier, she soon discovers the world’s biggest poker tournament. running back for the New York Giants. that the local police have an especially (American) Troy Preston was a wide receiver for the cosy relationship with money and illegal Andrew TAYLOR Jets, until his recent murder. Could acts. But as Jayne learns of this, she A Stain on the Silence rivalry have turned Kenny into a cold- realises her own life is in danger. Murder, 342pp Tp 32.95 blooded killer? The police say yes. And child prostitution, police graft and other The last person now the football hero needs a good stalwart crime subjects are all uncovered James wants to meet lawyer, quick. Still basking in the glow of by Jayne in an exotic Thai setting in this again is Lily. But his last successful case, Andy Carpenter is thrilling series debut. (Australian) now she’s dying of called to defend Kenny’s innocence. Then Fran SCHATZING cancer, and he is it’s revealed that Troy wasn’t the only Swarm 881pp Tp 32.95 wholly unprepared murdered player with whom Kenny was Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, for what she has to in contact. (American) eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water tell him. 24 years Craig RUSSELL supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, ago, she gave birth Brother Grimm 380pp Tp 32.95 killing thousands in Europe. Around the to a daughter and A girl’s body world, countries begin to feel the effects of James is the girl’s lies, posed, on the the ocean’s revenge as the seas and their father. Yet Lily has pale sand of a inhabitants begin a violent revolution one more secret to reveal. Their daughter Hamburg beach, a against mankind. In this riveting novel, is now a wanted woman. She’s on the run message concealed full of twists, turns and cliffhangers, a for murder. Soon James is compelled to in her hand. “I have team of scientists discovers a strange, reach back into the past and discover the been underground intelligent life force called the Yrr that other bitter fruits of his and Lily’s unfor- and now it is time takes form in marine animals, using them tunate union. (English) for me to return to wreak havoc on humanity, punishing us Colleen THOMPSON home...” Jan Fabel, for our ecological abuses. (German) The Deadliest Denial of the Hamburg Lyndon STACEY 364pp Pb 16.95 murder squad, Outside Chance The worst day of Claire’s life begins with struggles to interpret the twisted imagery 456pp Pb 21.95 a 5.00 am knock on her door, the of a dark and brutal mind. Four days When the favourite for the Cheltenham summons every cop’s wife dreads. But later, a man and woman are found in Gold Cup is kidnapped, it appears the instead of telling her Spence is gone, woodland, their throats slashed deep and horse’s owner has things to hide, so killed in the line of duty, his sergeant has wide, the names “Hansel” and “Gretel”, although he notifies the police, he also even worse news for Claire. Her husband in the same tiny, obsessively neat writing, employs a journalist to investigate, with is in jail. For murder. And there is rolled tight and pressed into their hands. the promise of an exclusive, if he keeps irrefutable evidence that the person he The hunt is on for a serial killer who is his mouth shut. (English) really wants dead is her. (American) exploring the darkest, most fundamental fears hidden in ancient fairy tales. (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Aimee & David THURLO Liza WARD A Suitable Vengeance 3 CDs 35.00 Thief in Retreat Outside Valentine 301pp Pb 23.95 George gives us an early glimpse into the 269pp Pb 16.95 In 1958, as the snow fell across lives of DI Thomas Lynley, forensic Sister Agatha Mystery #2. A former Nebraska, a 19-year-old James Dean look- scientist Simon Allcourt-St James, and investigative reporter, Sister Agatha has alike and his 14-year-old girlfriend Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative new more than her fair share of spiritual climbed into a stolen car and blazed into mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry challenges as an extern, a nun responsible history with a string of bloody murders into the crimes of the heart. Read by for her cloistered order’s dealings with that would haunt America. Many years Derek Jacobi. the outside world. Still, she’s instantly have passed since the bitterly cold winter Well Schooled in Murder 3 CDs 35.00 intrigued when the archbishop requests when Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann When 13-year-old Matthew Whateley she discreetly investigate the odd Fugate drove across the hushed goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a disappearances of valuable religious fold Nebraskan landscape leaving a trail of prestigious public school in the heart of art from ‘The Retreat’, a former New blood. So why does Lowell, a Manhattan West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Mexico monastery-turned-upscale-inn. antiques collector, still dream of what hap- Thomas Lynley receives a call for help But soon Sister Agatha is entangled in one pened, despite his wife’s attempts to help from the lad’s housemaster, who also unearthly puzzle that includes an art him? And who is Puggy, the young girl happens to be an old school chum. Thus, expert who’s vanished without a trace, a still obsessed by the murders? (American) the inspector, his partner, Detective truly strange flock of out-there suspects, Laura WILSON Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic and an unnerving apparition no amount A Thousand Lies 290pp Tp 29.95 scientist Simon Allcourt-St James find of reality can explain. (American) In 1987, Sheila Shand was given a sus- themselves once again outside their Lisa UNGER pended sentence for murdering her jurisdiction and deeply involved in the Beautiful Lies 372pp Tp 32.95 father. At her trial, it emerged that she search for a child - and then, tragically, If Ridley Jones had slept 10 minutes and her mother and sister had been for a child killer. Read by Derek Jacobi. later, or taken the subway instead of forced to shield brutal sadist Leslie Shand (American) waiting for a cab, she would still be living while he subjected them to a reign of ter- Donna LEON the beautiful lie she used to call her life. ror, daily beatings and sexual abuse. Through a Glass Darkly 3 CDs 45.00 She would still be the privileged daughter Years later, investigative journalist Amy Commissario Brunetti and his assistant of a doting father and a loving mother. Vaughan discovers letters and a newspa- Vianello secure the release of Marco Instead, those inconsequential decisions per cutting about the Shand case while Ribetti, arrested during an environmental lead her to perform a good deed that puts clearing out her late mother’s flat. protest, only to face the fury of the man’s her in the right place at the right time to Concluding that she must be related to father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a unleash a chain of events that brings a the Shands, she decides to visit Sheila’s cantankerous glass factory owner who has mysterious package to her door - a mother who is in a care home. Amy soon been heard in the bars of Murano making package that informs her that her entire realises that there is more to the murder violent threats against Ribetti. Brunetti’s world is a lie. (American) of Leslie than the police ever unearthed, curiosity is piqued, and he begins to Louise URE including two long-buried skeletons in investigate: Is De Cal the type of man to Forcing Amaryllis woods near the family’s home... (English) carry out his threats? By all accounts he is 303pp Pb 16.95 Don WINSLOW constantly angry, bullying suppliers and From a gripping new author comes the The Power of the Dog fuming against environmentalists. Then haunting story of Calla Gentry, a trial 539pp Pb 24.95 one morning the body of De Cal’s bookish consultant determined to discover the From Don Winslow (“A writer so good night watchman is found in front of the truth about her sister’s brutal rape. you almost want to keep him to yourself” blazing furnace. Could the old man have (American) - Ian Rankin), this is an electrifying new done it? And who is poisoning the waters Nury VITTACHI novel of love and revenge, politics and of Venice’s lagoon? Fighting against time, Shanghai Union of Industrial influence, corruption and honour. Moving Brunetti must find the murderer before he Mystics 329pp Pb 22.95 at breakneck speed, it tells a riveting, strikes again. Read by Andrew Sachs. Feng Shui Detective. When a group off sometimes harrowing, story set in the (American) vegan terrorists threaten to blow up the shifting nexus of power among the Latin world’s two most important leaders American drug cartels, the American mob HISTORICAL along with half of Shanghai, the job and the US government. (American) somehow falls to CF Wong and his CRIME assistant, Joyce to save Shanghai, the CRIME world and one poor elephant. (Chinese) AUDIO Paul DOHERTY Michelle WAN The Year of the Cobra306pp Tp 32.95 Deadly Slipper 301pp Tp 29.95 Akhenaten Trilogy #3. At the end of The Almost 20 years have passed since Elizabeth GEORGE Season of the Hyaena (Pb 19.95), Mahu Bedie Dunn, a wild-orchid enthusiast, A Great Deliverance 3 CDs 35.00 had just been recalled to court because the vanished without a trace on a hiking Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been young Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, was suf- holiday in south-western France. The found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, fering from a serious mental illness. police long ago relegated the unsolved seated in the old stone barn beside her Mahu’s tale resumes: Tutankhamun is mystery to the cold-case files. But Mara father’s headless corpse. Her first and last unwell, but there is no heir apparent. Dunn, Bedie’s twin, is haunted by her words were “I did it. And I’m not sorry.” Egypt’s enemies, the Hittites, are advanc- sister’s disappearance. Was Bedie the Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way ing through Canaan, and Ay - First victim of an accident? Or did she cross through Keldale’s dark labyrinth of secret Minister of Akenhaten, father of Nefertiti, paths with the wrong person at just the scandals and appalling crimes, they brother of Queen Tiye - still plots, like the wrong time? Mara has come to the uncover a shattering series of revelations spider he is. The web is woven, the trap Dordogne determined to find the that will reverberate through this tranquil set... (English) answers. (Canadian) English valley - and in their own lives. Read by Derek Jacobi.

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 11 Nick DRAKE Stephen MILLER Nefertiti 348pp Tp 32.95 A Game of Soldiers 456pp Tp 32.95 CRIME She is called ‘The In St Petersburg, beside the glittering Perfect One’, the court life of the Romanovs, the people are NON-FICTION most famous and seething. It is not only the Bolsheviks but Tom BASINSKI beautiful woman in also the new men, the tycoons grown No Good Deed 291pp Pb 18.95 the world. Nefertiti wealthy in the booming economy and the rules equally with more vigorous aristocrats who are impa- In La Jolla, California, just before her husband, the tient with their idle, incompetent rulers. Christmas 1998, the Chrysler LeBaron of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Pyotr Ryzkhov, a government agent, is David Stevens exploded into flames, over the richest, used to keeping his head down, minding which didn’t hide the fact that there were most sophisticated his own business. He is providing a body- two bullets in his skull. For three years, and powerful socie- guard for a key member of the govern- the police were baffled, until an ty in the modern ment, when he witnesses the death of a acquaintance of the victim revealed world. But shortly before the crucial festi- child prostitute. The immediate cover up startling details, and a motive for the val to celebrate the new capital, to which and the vulnerability of the girl drives slaying that was more shocking than the rulers and representatives from across the him to probe into what he is sure is mur- crime itself. (American) world are invited to attend, Nefertiti sud- der. (Canadian) Giles BRINDLEY Oxford: Crime, Death and denly vanishes. Rai Rahotep, the John Maddox ROBERTS Debauchery 213pp Tp 45.00 youngest chief detective in the Thebes A Point in Law 253pp Hb 49.95 In the city of Inspector Morse, when it division, with a rising reputation for his SPQR #10. “Being comes to crime, truth may be stranger original methods, is secretly assigned by under suspicion of than fiction. This walk through the dark Akhenaten to investigate. He has 10 days murder did not corridors of Oxford’s past is populated to find the Queen and return her in time hamper my with footpads and prostitutes, murderers for the celebrations. Success will bring freedom. This is and conmen, thieves and philanderers. glory but if he fails, he and his family will because Romans Brindley has searched the archives of the die... (English) are civilised people university, the Public Record Office, the Tom GALLON and don’t clap Centre for Oxfordshire Studies and others The Girl Behind the Keys suspects into prison to collect more than 100 accounts that 183pp Pb 22.95 like barbarians do. paint a picture of Oxford’s seedier side. First published in 1903, this is a delightful It would take an Using contemporary court records and example of early detective fiction in order of a lawfully newspaper accounts, he brings together which Bella Thorn, a savvy young typist, convened court even to place me under crime stories dating foils the nefarious plans of her employer, house arrest.” Senator Decius Caecilius from 1750 to about a confidence man who exploits the hopes Metellus is speaking at an outdoor rally 1920, including: and fears infusing the popular in Rome where he is campaigning for infamous murders, imagination. As Arlene Young’s critical election to the praetorship. It looks like a hangings and introduction demonstrates, the story shoo-in, until a man named Fulvius, of dying confessions, unites many of the cultural and literary whom Decius has never heard, arrives at grand and daring motifs marking the dawn of the twentieth the pre-election proceedings with a small thefts, escapes from century, when the Victorian era was army of hoodlums and begins to shout to the county gaol, giving way to modernity. (English) the assembled voters that Decius is a thief suicide in the name Susanna GREGORY and worse. Early the next morning, of love, and great Conspiracy of Violence: Chaloner’s however, as Decius and his friends are on drinking deaths. First Exploit in Restoration London their way to the trial, Fulvius’s body is (English) 502pp Hb 49.95 found slashed to death on the steps of the Michael CONNELLY The dour days of Cromwell are over. basilica, where the court will be sitting. Crime Beat 261pp Tp 29.95 Charles II is well established at White And that doesn’t look good for our hero. Hall Palace, his mistress at hand in rooms (American) “Death is my beat.” Those words, spoken over the Holbein bridge, the heads of Pip VAUGHAN-HUGHES by the narrator and hero of The Poet (Pb some of the regicides on public display. Relics 276pp Tp 29.95 18.95), Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Connelly. Time and time again in these London seethes with new energy, freed It’s England, 1235, and Brother Petroc is riveting pieces, we make the connection from the strictures of the Protectorate, but living a simple life as a novice monk. between crime reporter and novelist: “On many of its inhabitants have lost their Struggling to keep his soul fairly clean the day I arrived in Los Angeles, I sat in livelihoods. One is Thomas Chaloner, a and worrying most about resisting the the newspaper editor’s office being inter- reluctant spy for the feared Secretary of local girls, he is helpless when he stum- viewed for a job on the crime beat. The State, John Thurloe, and now returned bles headlong into vicious trap. Framed day before, there had been a bank heist in from Holland in desperate need of by a sinister Templar Knight for a brutal which the thieves had gone into the city’s employment. His erstwhile boss, know- murder of a church official and accused of labyrinthine storm water tunnel system ing he has many enemies at court, recom- the theft of a priceless relic, he is forced to to get beneath the bank before tunnelling mends Thomas to Lord Clarendon, but in run for his life. But when his best friend upward.” Years later, that story would return demands that Thomas keep him Will is killed by the chasing knight, become The Black Echo (Pb 18.95). The informed of any plot against him. But Petroc’s flight becomes a quest for restitu- cops, the killers, the cases - it’s all here in what Thomas discovers is that Thurloe tion. Trusting his fate to an enigmatic a collection that is a must for Connelly had sent another ex-employee to White relic-hunter and scoundrel, he must fans. (American) Hall and he is dead, supposedly mur- dodge the long arm of the church and dered by footpads near the Thames. somehow get to the bottom of everything (English) that has happened to him. (English)

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