“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #266 march 2008

2007: THE YEAR IN REVIEW ABBEY’S TURNS 40 Completing the list of 2007 bestsellers from our February Chronicle: TOP 5 AUDIO CRIME A Continuing Retrospective: Part 3 Francis Durbridge: Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery When Abbey’s was at 477 George (4 CDs) $39.95 Street, I compiled a number of Kerry Greenwood: Murder in the Dark (7 CDs) $29.95 lists of crime authors who were Agatha Christie: Dumb Witness (2 CDs) $29.95 of particular interest to our Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Collection (8 CDs) $70.00 customers. All in all, I seem to Ellis Peters: Devil’s Novice (2 CDs) $39.95 remember compiling about 20 lists, which were available free. TOP 5 NON-FICTION CRIME After we issued the first Crime Keith Devlin & Gary Lorden: Numbers Behind Numb3rs: Chronicle from 66 King Street, I Solving Crime with Mathematics (Pb $19.95) compiled a complete Crime Michael Kuzilny: Life in Crime (Pb $24.95) Catalogue - a long and arduous task - and typed it up Peter Doyle & Caleb Williams: before sending it to the printer (this was before City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948 (Hb $65.00) computers!). Tony Reeves: The Abe Saffron Dossiers (Pb $24.95) In March 1987, being a martyr to the cause, I prepared Angela Kamper & Charles Miranda: My Brother’s Keeper (Pb $24.95) a second edition and again typed it up for the printer. TOP 5 CRIME ANTHOLOGIES In 1994, we issued a third and final 94-page edition called Crime Scene, which thankfully was compiled Mike Ashley (ed): Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible with the assistance of a computer! This included a Mysteries (Pb $24.95) True Crime section and a list that matched characters Otto Penzler (ed): Pulp Fiction: The Villains (Tp $32.95) with their creators. The fiction section also highlighted Sara Paretsky (ed): Sisters on the Case (Pb $17.95) Australian authors. It was a Otto Penzler (ed): Pulp Fiction: Crimefighters (Pb $22.95) huge task and a very time- Dana Stabenow (ed): Powers of Detection (Pb $18.95) consuming one. PS. A bug got into the system in last month’s Chronicle.... Peter Temple’s Although I always had good The Broken Shore got rave reviews on the First Tuesday Book Club on intentions to revise this ABC TV in Australia (although it almost certainly also got rave reviews in the edition, that never quite UK as well, where it became a bestseller). happened. Nowadays, what with the internet and Easter Hours websites, it is probably somewhat passé, but I Good Friday 21 Mar (Public Holiday) Closed believe, and I hope, these Saturday 22 Mar (Public Holiday) 8.30am - 6pm were useful tools at the time. Sunday 23 Mar 10am - 5pm Monday 24 Mar (Public Holiday) 10am - 5pm A CASE SOLVED?

On Sunday 3 February, I went along to Partners in Crime at the Hughenden Hotel to hear Breanda Cross speak about her book Shark Arm Unhooked? (Pb 264pp $24.95). It was fascinating to hear about her interest in the infamous and sensational (at the time) Shark Arm Case and how she came to write her book. Although told in novel form, Breanda thinks it should be called ‘faction’ as the book is peopled with real people and what they did. Drinking, drug dealing, muggings and the occasional murder, these were everyday occurrences in Sydney’s Surry Hills in 1935. Then something happened. Something so bizarre, so strange, that the world tuned in daily to find out what happened in the Shark Arm Case. They never did find out... until now. Meet all the famous and infamous characters of the time including Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh. It is a story of a time when the crims were bad, the cops were corrupt, and it didn’t pay to squeal. A fascinating journey back in time! I have a few copies left from the talk and that is all I can get, so first come first served. - Peter 2 Modern Crime Roderick ANSCOMBE S J BOLTON Virgin Lies 320pp Pb $13.95 Sacrifice 352pp Tp $32.95 James ANDERSON One summer day, Boston forensic Moving to The Affair of the psychiatrist Paul Lucas gets a call from remote Shetland has Mutilated Mink Coat his social worker wife, Abby, a nine-year- been unsettling (1981) 216pp Hb $49.95 old girl has gone missing. Paul, an expert enough for Inspector interrogator, is called in to help evaluate consultant surgeon Wilkens #2. the testimony of the only witness: a Tora Hamilton, The Earl of Burford homeless woman who happens to be a even before the hosts another slightly paranoid schizophrenic. Further gruesome discovery batty, thoroughly interviews with other possible witnesses she makes one rain- baffling house party... go nowhere, frustrating detectives and drenched Sunday Nothing can top the calling into doubt Paul’s role in the case. afternoon. Deep in merrily murderous Believing the girl is alive but soon to die, the peat soil of her 1930s house party for a Paul is pushed to the brink of a field she is shocked to find the perfectly puzzler! Due Mar professional abyss… Due Mar (American) preserved body of a young woman, a (English) Susan ARNOULT SMITH gaping hole in her chest where her heart The Timer Game 512pp Tp $30.00 has been brutally removed. Three rune Grace Descanso is a young single marks etched into the woman’s skin bear mother working for CSI San Diego. It’s a an eerie resemblance to carvings Tora has KEY demanding job, Grace can’t spend as seen all over the islands... Debut. Due Mar much time as she would like with her 5- (English) academic year-old daughter Katie. But when a Allison BRENNAN routine crime scene turns into a Killing Fear 320pp Tp $33.00 banking bloodbath, Grace realises that someone is Six years ago, lawyer Theodore Glenn after her. Then Katie is snatched from was convicted of brutally murdering four canine detectives their house... Due Mar (American) strippers in San Diego. But as he was clerical Sarah ATWELL dragged from the courtroom, he made a Through a Glass Deadly vehement promise to kill all those who cosy/malice domestic 288pp Pb $13.95 testified against him… Due Mar Glassblowing Mystery #1. Glassblower (American) culinary/food Emmeline Dowell has made a home for Sandra BROWN herself among the artists of Tucson’s Play Dirty 416pp Pb $20.00 fbi Warehouse District. But her friendship His release from prison should have with troubled newcomer Allison McBride been the end of Griff Burkett’s troubles, feline detectives takes a dangerous turn when Allison’s but it wasn’t. Once an American football husband turns up dead in Em’s studio. star, Griff is now reviled by fans for forensic Now Emmeline is involved in a murder throwing a championship game. His investigation that reaches beyond the fortune lost, he remains under the dark horse racing mystery sunny Southwest. And when the killer shadow of suspicion for an unsolved acts again, it’s up to her to pick up the murder. Moreover, his worst enemy, the Journalists shards of Allison’s life before it’s too late. man who has pledged to destroy him, is Due Mar (American) tracking his every move. So when medical Deb BAKER eccentric millionaire Foster Speakman Dolly Departed offers Griff a vast amount of money in military 288pp Pb $13.95 exchange for impregnating his wife Laura, Griff readily agrees. Little does he native american Dolls to Die For Mystery #3. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the know that this bizarre contract will trap police procedural owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she him in a web of betrayal, with deadly winds up in the thick of a mystery of consequences... Due Mar (American) political/legal miniature proportions. Due Mar James Lee BURKE (American) Jesus Out to Sea (Short Stories) psychological Karna Small BODMAN 256pp Tp $33.00 Checkmate 384pp Pb $13.95 This powerful new collection ranges private eye Computer genius Cameron ‘Cammy’ across landscapes that Burke has made Talbot of Bandaq Technologies has his own, from rural Louisiana and romantic suspense developed a program whereby she’s able Mississippi to war-torn Vietnam and a to hack into the guidance system of an New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane sport incoming cruise missile and redirect it Katrina. Told with his trademark blend of back against whoever fired it. Meanwhile, lyrical prose and hard-eyed realism, they spy a Muslim terror group bent on taking bring a host of extraordinary characters to over Kashmir has stolen three Pakistani vivid life: soldiers and prostitutes, nuns suspense/thriller cruise missiles, one of which it has fired and children, musicians and gangsters, all into India in an effort to provoke a the while movingly exploring the near Pb = Paperback nuclear response against Pakistan. Debut. certainty of tragedy to come and the Tp = Trade Paperback Due Mar (American) smouldering embers of possibility in the (slightly larger) ashes of blighted lives. Due Mar Hb = Hardback (American) AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 W J BURLEY Sean CHERCOVER Carol Higgins CLARK Wycliffe and the Dunes Mystery Big City Bad Blood Laced 352pp Pb $15.95 (1993) 219pp Pb $20.00 352pp Pb $15.95 Regan Reilly Mystery. Private Cochran Wilder disappeared 15 years ago Disillusioned newspaper reporter- Investigator Regan Reilly and her new while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Recently released from a psychiatric doesn’t want to save the world, he just Case Squad, are off to Ireland for their hospital after being convicted of indecent wants to do an honest job well. But when honeymoon. But their very first night at assault, he had been a serious doing an honest job threatens society’s romantic Hennessy Castle is interrupted embarrassment to his father, a prominent most powerful and corrupt, Ray’s odds of by a fire alarm that distracts hotel MP. Now his body has been found, survival make for a sucker’s bet. A simple employees from the theft of a valuable buried in the dunes... (English) bodyguard job for a Hollywood locations antique lace tablecloth out of the castle’s Tom CAIN manager uncovers a rats’ nest of sexual memorabilia room. Due Mar (American) The Accident Man560pp Pb $19.95 blackmail, murder, and high-level Harlan COBEN Meet the Accident political corruption, and Ray Dudgeon is The Woods 528pp Pb $20.00 Man, Samuel Carver, caught in a war between the FBI, the 20 years ago at a good guy who Chicago police, and the mob. With the summer camp, Paul makes bad things line between good and bad blurring, Ray Copeland’s sister died happen to bad doesn’t know who he can trust… Due Mar in the woods, the people. Ex-SAS, now (American) alleged victim of a freelance mercenary Laura CHILDS serial killer. Her body he is the frontline Dragonwell Dead was never found. weapon of the 304pp Pb $15.95 Now, Paul is the “Consortium”, a Tea Shop Mystery #8. Although Theodosia prosecutor for Essex black-ops British Browning barely knows a Phalinopsis County, New Jersey, government outfit, or from a Bog Rose, she still enjoys immersed in one of is it? Carver is called to do a hit at very Charleston’s Spring Plantation Ramble, the biggest cases of his short notice. He believes the target to be a especially since she can promote her career - a case that will change everything high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job Indigo Tea Shop and her latest he believes about the past, and the truth. is to organise a car crash in a Paris concoction, Dragonwell Sweet Tea. But Due Mar (American) underpass. But Carver is being set up... the party’s over when Mark Congdon Susan CONANT Due Mar (American) wins a bid for a rare orchid, and promptly & Jessica CONANT-PARK Lorenzo CARCATERRA dies. It looks like a simple heart attack, Simmer Down 304pp Pb $15.95 The Chasers 432pp Pb $19.95 but Theo suspects that someone A Gourmet Girl Mystery. After a The Apaches, a cadre of controversial purposely turned his green thumb blue. trendy club owner is bludgeoned with a former NYPD cops first appeared in Due Mar (American) food processor, Gourmet Girl Chloe Carcaterra’s previous novel, Apaches (Pb Agatha CHRISTIE Carter finds the list of suspects longer $17.95). In this sequel, set three years Partners in Crime (1929) than the line to get in to Simmer, her chef later, the surviving members of the team 224pp Pb $17.00 boyfriend’s hot new restaurant. Due Mar reunite to continue their relentless battle Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were (American) against crime. Their new adventure is restless for adventure, so when they were Elizabeth CORLEY kick-started by the machine-gun murder asked to take over Blunt’s International Innocent Blood of innocent bystanders in a Manhattan Detective Agency, they leapt at the 288pp Tp $29.95 restaurant. It’s the Apaches versus the chance. After their triumphant recovery DCI Andrew Fenwick #4. DCI Andrew drug lords in an all-out New York City of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on Fenwick is up against a tough case. The street war. Due Mar (American) coming their way. Due Mar (English) Choir Boy investigation, a project outside Alex CARR Hercule Poirot’s Christmas of ordinary police jurisdiction, aims to An Accidental American (1939) 224pp Pb $17.00 expose an infamous and increasingly 240pp Pb $20.00 Facsimile Edn 251pp Hb $30.00 powerful paedophile ring. The pressure is Nicole has Poirot #19. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee on as Fenwick’s refusal to play by the experienced family reunion is shattered by a rules means the prospect of new assistant enough danger and deafening crash of furniture, followed by commissioner Harper-Brown taking the excitement to last a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, case from him looms heavily. Due Mar her several the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a (English) lifetimes. But a six- pool of blood, his throat slashed. But year spell in when Hercule Poirot, who is staying in Marseilles’ the village with a friend for Christmas, toughest prison has offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere cured her not of mourning but of mutual suspicion. adrenaline habit. A It seems everyone had their own reason farmhouse buried to hate the old man. Due Mar (English) deep in the French The Adventure of the Pyrenees, a garden to tend, and the Christmas Pudding (1960) occasional job whipping up a passport or 240pp Pb $17.00 a visa to pay for her simple lifestyle will Christie’s seasonal Poirot and Marple do her fine. John Valsamis could have short story collection. Due Mar (English) been any tourist, a solitary American needing directions in Nicole’s empty corner of the world. But she knows he isn’t... Due Mar (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Peter CORRIS Carole Nelson DOUGLAS Barbara FREETHY Open File 216pp Pb $19.95 Cat in a Hot Red Rage Silent Run 400pp Pb $15.95 Cliff Hardy #32. With his PI licence 384pp Pb $13.95 Forced off the road by another car, a cancelled and his career in Sydney at an Midnight Louie woman wakes to find herself in a hospital end, Hardy is preparing for a trip Mystery. The hefty bed with amnesia and no ID. All she has overseas. Cleaning out his office, he feline sleuth are her instincts telling her she’s in comes across an open file, an unresolved Midnight Louie and danger. Then a handsome stranger case from the late 1970s. He starts reading his human partner, appears and makes a terrible accusation. and is thrown back to his investigation of Temple Barr (whom He was her lover, and her baby’s father, the disappearance of Justin Hampshire. Louie refers to as “a until she disappeared seven months ago At first glance a straightforward missing grown-up Nancy without a word. Now they must put their person matter, the investigation took on Drew on killer trust in each other to find their child and twists and turns involving military spikes”), accompany discover who wants her dead... Due Mar history, Sydney criminals and corruption Temple’s outrageous (American) at high levels. The Hampshire case took landlady, Electra Lark, to a Red Hat Stephen FREY Cliff from the south coast to the Blue Sisterhood convention. Trouble ensues The Successor Mountains and posed some unresolved when Electra is accused of murder, and 384pp Pb $15.95 questions which have preyed on his mind it’s up to Louie and Temple to get her out Make-or-break for 20 years… Due Mar (Australian) of the jam. Due Mar (American) decisions involving Judith CUTLER Dianne EMLEY millions of dollars Cold Pursuit 288pp Pb $19.95 Cut to the Quick Tp $32.95 are all in a day’s Chief Superintendent Fran Harman #2. Nan Vining#2. When Nan and her work for Christian When a colleague becomes seriously ill, precinct colleagues investigate the Gillette, chairman Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has murder of a glamorous LA couple, they of Everest Capital, to delay her impending retirement to uncover details that lead them perilously New York’s most oversee an investigation into a recent spate close to the path of a psychotic killer. renowned private of ‘happy slappings’ and minor assaults in Someone who almost slashed Nan to equity firm. He’s the Kent area. Initially, she begrudgingly death and changed her life forever. Due taken on the takes a back seat in the case, but it is not Mar (American) toughest, most long before she is once again perilously Anthea FRASER powerful, and close to the action. Due Mar (English) Next Door to Murder often most dangerous adversaries and Jeffrey DEAVER 256pp Hb $49.95 prevailed, all the while honing his skill The Sleeping Doll Rona Parish Mystery. Looking for a new for being cool under fire, literally. But 544pp Pb $20.00 subject for her popular series on local now Gillette will be put to the ultimate California Bureau of Investigation Special family businesses, Rona is pleased when test. He’s offered the chance to seal a deal agent Kathryn Dance is an expert in her friend Georgia offers to engineer an unlike any other, one that goes beyond kinesics, the science of interpreting introduction to Julian Willow, of the long- boardrooms, balance sheets, and even behaviour. It makes her a brilliant standing furniture emporium. Julian and Everest itself, one that will leave its mark interrogator. But she’s up against Daniel his wife Felicity welcome Rona’s interest, on history. Due Mar (American) Pell, a master of control, who mesmerises, and offer her all the help she needs to Ed GAFFNEY seduces and exploits people for his own write her article. Unusually, given Rona’s Enemy Combatant murderous ends. A convicted killer who is propensity for uncovering dark secrets, 336pp Pb $13.95 known as “The Son of Manson” for the there seem to be no skeletons in the In the trial of the decade, attorney Tom chilling parallels between him and the Willow family cupboards. But this time it Carpenter was just a spectator. Until, to notorious ritual murderer. To track down seems there may be a mystery closer to his own astonishment, Tom finds himself Pell before he destroys yet more lives, home... Due Mar (American) thrust into a case primed to explode. The Kathryn must enlist the help of people Brian FREEMANTLE whole world thinks Tom’s new client is from the killer’s past. Due Mar (American) The Namedropper 320pp Tp $27.95 guilty of the worst act of terrorism since Hannah DENNISON Harvey Jordan is 9/11, except for one shadowy figure, who A Vicky Hill Exclusive ‘The Namedropper’, a feeds Tom astounding inside 304pp Pb $13.95 man who has become information. But just as the trial is about Introducing Vicky a multi-millionaire to break wide open, Tom receives a Hill, a suffocatingly stealing and adopting chilling threat. Suddenly Tom cannot single reporter other people’s ID to trust anyone, and his family must run for whose attempts at strip them of their their lives. Due Mar (American) finding the right assets. He only uses Ronald GAUTHIER man and the scoop his real name during Crescent City Countdown of a lifetime take a the luxury vacations 384pp Tp $34.00 backseat to murder. he allows himself in New Orleans Mystery #2. Jeannette The debut of a brand his favoured South of France. It is there Plaisance is back on the trail of another new series set in the that he meets Alyce Appleton, the elusive mystery, this time pursuing two sleepy English town deceived and betrayed wife of New York witnesses to the murder of hotel of Gipping-on-Plym commodity dealer and millionaire Alfred executive in New Orleans. She teams up features sweetly bumbling investigative Appleton. But when Jordan goes back to with the co-owner of her private journalist Vicky Hill, who will do England to a new assumed identity and a investigation company to solve this case, anything to get that front-page story. But new scam, a bombshell awaits him. His all of this occurring as the city witnesses the unusual death of local hedge-jumping affair with Alyce was recorded in every the maddeningly high re-emergence of enthusiast just may lead to Vicky’s own detail by New York private detectives... violent crime. Due Mar (American) deadly downfall. Due Mar (American) Due Mar (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Michael GILBERT Marion HALLIGAN Joan HESS Even Murderers Take Holidays and Murder on the Apricot Coast Damsels in Distress Other Mysteries 224pp Hb $52.95 264pp Pb $21.95 336pp Pb $13.95 Gilbert (1912-2006) All is not as it seems in the calm, well- Claire Malloy Mystery. A Renaissance Fair was one of the ordered streets of the nation’s capital. is coming to the relatively quiet college greatest crime writers After the turbulence of their courtship, town of Farberville Arkansas, which is to emerge after WWII. Cassandra and the colonel have settled not the sort of news that usually sets local Here are 27 into wedded bliss - only to have it bookseller Claire Malloy’s heart racing. previously shattered by a death far too close to home. But with Claire’s daughter, Caron, being uncollected short With characteristic panache, much the perpetually petulant teenager that she stories with themes reading between the lines, and a is, and her fiancé, Police Lieutenant Peter ranging from robbery magnificent wardrobe of women’s Rosen, away, she finds herself drawn into to murder. Included clothes (his), Cassandra and her colonel the strange inner workings of the group are all the remaining set out to find the truth in this eagerly putting on the fair. Stranger still, a Ren uncollected stories of Gilbert’s popular awaited sequel to The Apricot Colonel Fair volunteer has just been found burned series characters, Patrick Petrella, (Pb $19.95). Due Mar (Australian) in the wreckage of a rented home... Due Hazelrigg, Calder and Behrens. Due Mar Sophie HANNAH Mar (American) (English) The Point of Rescue Reginald HILL Mark GIMENEZ 416pp Tp $33.00 A Cure for all Diseases The Perk 448pp Tp $33.00 Sally is watching the news with her 400pp Tp $33.00 Beck Hardin returns to his Texas husband when she hears a name she Dalziel and Pascoe #22. Some say that hometown, and his estranged father, after ought not recognise, Mark Bretherick. Andy Dalziel wasn’t ready for God, the death of his wife leaves him with two Last year as a work trip fell through, and others that God wasn’t ready for Dalziel. children to raise. The town is still reeling desperate for a break, Sally took time off Convalescing in Sandytown, a quiet from the murder of 16-year-old Heidi, and went on a holiday. There, she met seaside resort devoted to healing, Dalziel whose father, Beck’s old college friend, Mark and they had an affair. Now his befriends Charlotte Heywood, a fellow asks Beck to help him find Heidi’s killer wife and daughter are dead, but the man newcomer and psychologist, who is before the statute of limitations runs out. on TV is not Mark... Due Mar (English) researching the benefits of alternative Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into Charlaine HARRIS therapy. With much in common, the two becoming town Judge, and he makes Three Bedrooms, One Corpse soon find themselves in league when some powerful enemies amongst the rich 240pp Pb $15.95 trouble comes to town. Due Mar (English) white landowners when he refuses to Aurora Teagarden Graham HURLEY condone their treatment of the Mexican Mystery #3. Deciding if The Price of Darkness workers of the town. As events escalate, she wants to go into 368pp Tp $33.00 the landowners carefully plot their real estate becomes a DC Winter has gone undercover in an revenge... Due Mar (American) life-or-death choice for attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the Andrew GREELEY Aurora ‘Roe’ city’s premier drugs lord Bazza McKenzie. Irish Lace (1996) Teagarden. A naked Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the 171pp Pb $13.95 corpse is discovered at way his superiors have presented him the Nuala Anne McGrail Mystery #2. The her first house job as a fait accompli and abroad in a beautiful and fey, as they say in the Old showing. And when a world where money is easy and respect is Country, Nuala uses her psychic abilities second body is found earned in brutally straightforward ways, to help solve mysteries. But even she will in another house for sale, it becomes DC Winter is in his element. Worryingly admit that she couldn’t do it without obvious that there is a very cool killer at so... Due Mar (American) Dermot Michael Coyne, her devoted large in Lawrenceton - one who knows a Quintin JARDINE admirer and self-proclaimed “spear great deal about real estate - and maybe Death’s Door (#17) carrier”. Soon the pair is caught up in a too much about Roe. Due Mar (American) 480pp Pb $20.00 Civil War controversy, and an all-too- Jonathan HAYES When two female artists are murdered in present-day mystery involving a Precious Blood what looks like ritualistic killings, the sophisticated gang of art thieves, corrupt 383pp Tp $32.95 pressure is on to find a highly professional politicians, and international terrorists. New York City medical examiner murderer. What is the link with the art (American) Edward Jenner thought he’d gotten out, world? It’s not long before Deputy Chief Michael GRUBER turning his back on forensics, and life, Constable Bob Skinner gets called back to The Book of Air and Shadows after the nightmare of September 11. But the frontline. Due Mar (Scottish) 544pp Pb $25.00 when a young student is found Craig JOHNSON A clever, pacey thriller set around the murdered, her mutilated body hanging Kindness Goes Unpunished search for a lost Shakespearean play. A lost on the wall of an East Village apartment, 288pp Tp $27.95 manuscript and its secrets buried for Jenner is forced out of retirement. Due A Walt Longmire Mystery. Walt Longmire centuries. An encrypted trail that leads to Mar (American) returns for his third adventure but this incalculable wealth. Sue HENRY time he is in the City of Brotherly Love, A Shakespearean Refuge 288pp Pb $13.95 where no act of kindness goes unpunished scholar tortured to Maxie and Stretch Mystery. Maxie Walt has been the sheriff in Wyoming’s death. All clues in a McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Absaroka County for 24 years, where his dangerous hunt to Stretch, are in Hawaii to help Maxie’s wit and charm have helped him solve find a hidden friend Karen Bailey pack up her house. many crimes. But that can’t prepare him treasure that men But after a prowler tries to break in and for the savage attack on his daughter, are willing to kill, someone sabotages the plumbing, Maxie Cady, a Philadelphia lawyer who has and die for! Due suspects that Karen is hiding something... unwittingly become embroiled in a Mar (American) Due Mar (American) political cover-up. Due Mar (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Rique JOHNSON Simon KERNICK Marc LECARD A Dangerous Return Pb $13.95 Severed 496pp Pb $21.95 Vinnie’s Head 352pp Tp $27.95 Detective Jason Jerrard #3. Jerrard has You wake up in a strange room on a Small-time Long Island criminal, been enjoying the good life. Retired at an bed covered in blood. You have no idea Johnnie LoDuco, gets involved with some early age, he is relaxing and living the life how you got there. Beside you is a dead friends who rob a convenience store. Too of his dreams, until the death of some one girl: Your girlfriend. The phone rings, and stoned to make a getaway, they pin all the dear to him forces him out of retirement a voice tells you to press play on the blame on him. When his childhood and back to the police force to investigate room’s DVD machine. The film shows buddy Vinnie bails him out of jail, he the murder. Jason’s sudden return to the you killing your girlfriend. Then you’re agrees to partake in a get-rich quick scam police force threatens his relationship with told to go to an address in East London Vinnie has put together. But while out Monique and when revenge and betrayal where you’re to deliver a briefcase and fishing one day Johnnie reels in the lead to a life or death situation, Jason has await further instructions. There’s no way biggest catch of his life, Vinnie’s head on to choose between his heart and mind in out... Due Mar (English) the end of the line. Now mafia types, order to survive. Due Mar (American) Christine KLING bounty hunters, and Vinnie’s girlfriend Mari JUNGSTEDT Wreckers’ Key: A Novel of are after him. They all seem to want Unseen 368pp Pb $21.95 Suspense 320pp Pb $13.95 Vinnie’s head, but Johnnie seems to have The island of Gotland is in the From harbours of Key West to the wilds misplaced it in an ice cooler, and if he middle of a busy tourist season and of Biscayne Bay to the night lights of wants to live he needs to get it back. Due getting ready for Midsummer, the 4th of Miami, Kling’s tough-minded heroine Mar (American) July of Swedish holidays, when a young has carved out a life that is uniquely her David LEVIEN woman and her dog are found brutally own. Now, this fiercely independent City of the Sun 352pp Tp $32.95 murdered. The dog has been beheaded woman is at a turning point, and in a 12-year-old Jamie Gabriel gets on his and is missing a paw; the woman is dangerous duel with an unseen enemy. bike before dawn to deliver newspapers naked, covered in gruesome axe wounds, Due Mar (American) in his suburban neighbourhood. and her panties have been stuffed in her Jayne Anne KRENTZ Somewhere en route, he vanishes without mouth. What looks like a crime White Lies 416pp Pb $20.00 a trace. 14 months later, still with no sign committed by the victim’s jealous A woman with a psychic talent for of Jamie and having lost all faith in the husband keeps the local police force on perceiving deception meets a man who police, his parents Paul and Carol are on their toes. Then a second victim is found. overwhelms her senses with the verge of abandoning hope. Then they A serial killer terrorises tourists and locals premonitions of danger - and desire... Due meet private investigator Frank Behr, a alike, and Inspector Anders Knutas has to Mar (American) tough, reclusive ex-cop. Abandoned by face additional pressure from the media John LANGE his former colleagues, separated from his and local politicians who are worried Zero Cool (1969) 224pp Pb $13.95 wife and haunted by his own terrible about bad PR for the island. Due Mar Hard Case Crime. Dr. Peter Ross, an past, Behr doesn’t make it a practice to (Swedish) American radiologist vacationing in take on hopeless cases, but the desperate Daniel KALLA Spain, finds himself caught up in a deadly couple’s plea for help awakens a personal Blood Lies 336pp Pb $15.95 search for centuries-old treasure, pain he can’t ignore. So begins his “Kalla strikes again with another embarking on a reckless journey from the unrelenting quest for answers in Jamie’s perfect page-turner.“ - Lee Child. Due Mar lazy beaches of Spain to the dark alleys of disappearance. (American) (American) Paris with a desperate American, a Greg LOOMIS Andrea KANE beautiful girl and a gallery of violent The Sinai Secret 384pp Pb $15.95 Dark Room 416pp Pb $15.95 pursuers! Due Mar (American) Lang Reilly Thriller #3. The murder of a 17 years ago, Morgan Winter was Victoria LAURIE research scientist in Georgia sends Lang traumatised by the discovery of her Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Reilly on a worldwide chase to uncover parents’ brutally murdered bodies in a Friend 304pp Pb $13.95 secrets that could upset the balance of Brooklyn basement on Christmas Eve. Ghost Hunter Mystery. Northelm Boarding power in the Middle East, and unleash a Now shocking new evidence overturns School on Lake Placid has the worst bully weapon more powerful than a nuclear the killer’s conviction and Morgan is of all, a demon by the name of Hatchet bomb. Due Mar (American) confronted with the horrifying realisation Jack. M J Holliday, along with her Sergei LUKYANENKO that the real killer is still out there… Due partners Gilley and the handsome Dr Day Watch (#2) 496pp Pb $24.95 Mar (American) Steven Sable, are ready to send him back This begins where Marshall KARP to the portal from whence he came. The Night Watch (Pb The Rabbit Factory Pb $22.95 school’s summer construction, an $24.95) left off, set in a Welcome to Lamaar Studios. Once uncooperative dean, and the very modern-day Moscow a small animation house, it has grown tempting Dr Delicious are all trying to where the 1,000-year- into an entertainment conglomerate distract M J from her ghost hunting. But old treaty between encompassing movies, television, music, with a demonic disturbance as great as Light and Dark video games, and a sprawling theme park Hatchet Jack, she must focus and show no maintains its uneasy called Familyland. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 The Butcher of Smithfield Ian MORSON Marilyn TODD 512pp Hb $55.00 City of the Dead 208pp Hb $49.95 Blind Eye 224pp Hb $52.95 Chaloner #3. Thomas Chaloner, just Nick Zuliani Mystery #1. When Nick High Priestess Iliona Mystery #1. A new returned from a clandestine excursion to Zuliani, Venetian entrepreneur and series set in Ancient Greece. Blackmailed Spain and Portugal on behalf of the explorer, is down on his luck in the into spying for Sparta’s hated secret Queen, finds London dank and grey Crimea, he is dragged out of the gutter by police, High Priestess Iliona’s under leaden skies. He finds many things Friar Alberoni. 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