“Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #285 OCTOBER 2009

PEter TEmple bestselling author of The Broken Shore (winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger) and its sequel Truth will be in-store to sign copies on Thurs 29 October @ 12.30pm Peter Milne recommends... Scottish author Philip Kerr Bill JAMES has won the world’s most Off-Street Parking 224pp Tp $27.95 lucrative crime fiction prize, Detective Constable Sharon Mayfield is on routine the RBA International Prize surveillance when she spots, outside his house, a dead for Crime Writing, for his man in a car. The locks had been sealed with superglue novel If the Dead Rise and Claude Huddart’s face has been mutilated. As with Not. Kerr’s book beat more most murders, there’s a jigsaw puzzle to be solved. than 160 others to land the But here the pieces don’t fit. Why is an informant, €125,000 (A$209,500) prize. Jeremy Dince, if that is his real name, being almost The book is the last in his exceptionally polite and helpful? And there’s just series of ‘Berlin noir’ novels something that doesn’t feel right about the grieving featuring detective Bernie Alice Huddart. Then there’s the younger and more Gunther, and covering a period that includes sinister Philip Otton, acquaintance of the bereaved Hitler’s rise to power and postwar Germany’s struggle Alice, and known to both Blenny and Dince. Sharon to come to terms with its past. The author said he was cannot fathom why she is being warned off and cannot work out the connection surprised at the size of the prize: “I recently got a prize between the protagonists until her police officer boyfriend Luke drops strange in France which was a few bottles of wine.” hints about the case and about her commanding officers. (English)Due Oct Now in Stock! Dan Brown Stieg LARSSON The Lost Symbol 448pp Hb $39.95 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest Six years in the writing, the sequel to Dan Brown’s 576pp Tp $32.95 internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code (both Pb The third instalment in the $19.95), is now available! bestselling Millennium trilogy.

Special Offer: Get a FREE copy of Ritual by Mo Hayder (normally Special Offer: Get a FREE copy of Dead $21.95) with every purchase while stock lasts. Line by Stella Rimington with every purchase while stock lasts. MODERN CRIME James BECKER Stephen L CARTER The Moses Stone Palace Council 528pp Pb $24.95 Megan ABBOTT 475pp Pb $21.95 Summer, Bury Me Deep 256pp Pb $22.99 A clay tablet covered in ancient writing is 1952. 20 powerful Inspired by a notorious true crime, this found by an English couple in Morocco. A men gather is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman day later they are dead, killed in a car crash. in secret and abandoned in Phoenix by her husband. At But where is the relic they died to protect? devise a plot to the medical clinic where she finds a job, she Determined to uncover a secret that’s manipulate the is swept up in the exuberant life of her co- endured for two millennia, Chris Bronson President of the workers, who supplement their scant income follows a trail of clues that leads him on United States. by entertaining the town’s most powerful a deadly chase for the truth. Threatened Soon after, writer men with wild parties. At one of these events, on every side by violent extremists, he is Eddie Wesley Marion meets Joe Lanigan, a local rogue plunged into a mystery rooted in biblical leaves a party and politician on the rise, whose ties to all times. (English) hosted by affluent three women bring events to a dramatic and Lawrence BLOCK and influential deadly collision. (American) Due Oct Hit and Run 304pp Pb $22.99 members of black P J ALDERMAN Keller #4. Keller quickly finds that his society, and discovers a body. The murdered Haunting Jordan newest job might not just mark the end of his man had an unusual gold cross gripped 432pp Pb $16.95 career, it could be the end of him, period. He between his hands and Eddie is determined Jordan Marsh left LA realises he was never meant to make the hit to find out why he was killed and what the in pursuit of some - he was just supposed to take the fall when cross signifies. (American) Due Oct much-needed R & R. a prominent politician was gunned down by Carla CASSIDY As the prime suspect someone else. (American) Due Oct Up Close and Personal in her husband’s Chelsea CAIN 336pp Pb $16.95 murder, she planned Evil at Heart 320pp Tp $32.99 Detective Jordan Sampson is struggling to immerse herself in Archie and Gretchen #3. A college to maintain a relationship with her young the restoration of the student is found dead, floating in a rowing daughter, while enjoying a new romance with charming Victorian boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his an old flame. But Jordan’s personal life takes she’d just bought. But abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his a dangerous turn when her old friends from as she soon discovers, spleen was removed while he was still alive. school are killed off one by one. (American) the coldest of cases cry Gretchen Lowell, the ‘Beauty Killer’, still at Due Oct out to be solved, too. large following her prison escape, is back Laura CHILDS For this old house comes fully furnished with and she’s killing again. But Detective Archie Death Swatch 336pp Pb $16.95 two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old Sheridan, on medical leave following his last Scrapbooking Mystery #6. Amid Zydeco murder of their own they’d like her to look run-in with Gretchen, isn’t so sure. (American) rhythms and popping champagne corks, into. (American) Due Oct Due Oct scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is KEY to crime genres having a wild night at a Mardi Gras party - until she finds a float designer murdered on a Suspense Thriller Romantic Suspense balcony. (American) Due Oct Peter CHURCH Dark Video 288pp Pb $29.95 Feline Detectives Police Procedural What begins as a semi-illegal assault on a fellow student soon takes a sinister turn for the worse, as moral bridges are crossed Forensic FBI and then burned in the quest for the perfect reality video. (American) Due Oct N J COOPER Political/Legal Cosy/Malice Domestic No Escape 384pp Pb $19.99 Karen Taylor Military Journalists #1. Spike Falconer is in prison on the Isle of Wight - convicted Spy Private Eye of murder. Forensic psychologist Karen Taylor comes to Banking Psychological probe the mind of this psychopath. Trying to recover from the death of Canine Clerical her husband and the dark memories surrounding it, Karen is drawn into life on Culinary/Food Medical the Island. She becomes involved with DCI Charlie Trench, cool and abrasive, the opposite in every way from her partner Will Hawkins. Meanwhile, someone on the Island Sport Horse Racing doesn’t want Karen getting too close to Spike and the more she learns, the more afraid PB = PAPERBACK HB = HARDBACK she becomes - and then they start to act... (English) Due Oct TP = TRADE PAPERBACK (Slightly Larger) www.abbeys.com.au 2 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Michael CORDY Leif DAVIDSEN James ELLROY The Source 512pp Pb $21.95 The Woman from Bratislava Blood’s a Rover 656pp Tp $32.95 When geologist Ross Kelly’s wife, 280pp Pb $22.99 Underworld USA #3. Summer, 1968. pregnant with their first child, is attacked In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are and left hovering on the brink of death, he Danish university lecturer, receives a visit dead. The assassination conspiracies have seeks salvation in a mysterious centuries-old from an Eastern European woman who turns begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is manuscript, which chronicles the discovery out to be his half-sister. In Copenhagen, getting ready to deploy at the Democratic of Eden. Although everyone tells him the Teddy’s older sister is arrested on suspicion of Convention in Chicago. Black militants story is surely an allegory, the possibility of being a Stasi agent and a murder leads Teddy are warring in south side LA. The Feds are the garden’s existence offers Ross the only to investigate the relationship between the concocting draconian countermeasures. And hope of saving Lauren and their unborn child. two women. (Denmark) Due Oct fate has placed three men at the vortex of Racing against time, a lethal assassin and Tim DAVYS History. Their lives collide in pursuit of the a fanatical priest, Ross’s quest will lead him Amberville 352pp Tp $34.95 Red Goddess Joan - and each of them will eventually to a place that might challenge Eric Bear thinks pay ‘a dear and savage price to live History.’ everything he ever thought about the source he has escaped his (American) Due Oct of life on earth. (English) Due Oct violent past, but when Christy EVANS Patricia CORNWELL crime boss Nicholas Sink Trap 256pp Pb $14.95 The Scarpetta Factor Dove threatens Eric’s Georgiana Neverall Mystery #1. Former 512pp Hb $49.99 beloved wife Emma corporate drone Georgiana Neverall loves her Kay Scarpetta Rabbit, Eric has no new occupation as a plumber’s apprentice, #17. An apparent choice but to do what but is a bit surprised when she finds the threat on he asks - find a way favourite brooch of Martha Tepper, the town’s Scarpetta’s to remove Dove’s former librarian, clogging a sink. Georgiana life finds her name from the Death has a sinking feeling that Martha may have embroiled in a List. Eric gathers his been retired permanently-and suddenly it’s surreal plot that old team together and they set off to find up to a plumber’s apprentice to flush out a includes a famous the elusive list. What Eric learns will forever killer. (American) Due Oct actor accused of change the way he thinks about his life, his Chris EWAN an unthinkable family and his town. (Sweden) Due Oct The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris sex crime and the Jeffrey DEAVER (ed) 234pp Pb $19.99 disappearance The Best American Mystery Stories Charlie Howard #2. Charlie is flush with the of a beautiful 2009 400pp Pb $28.95 success of his Paris book reading when millionairess. (American) Due Oct This best-selling novelist edits a collection he agrees to show a novice the basics of Casey DANIELS of the genre’s finest from the past year. the trade by breaking into the man’s own Dead Man Talking (American) Due Oct apartment. Trouble ensues when it turns out 304pp Pb $16.95 Alex DRYDEN the apartment belongs to someone else. The Pepper Martin Mystery #5. Heiress-turned- Moscow Sting 416pp Pb $32.99 next day, Charlie’s fence hires him to steal an cemetery-tour-guide Pepper Martin is not Finn #2. When ordinary-looking oil painting - from the same happy to discover that a local reality TV British spy, Finn, is address. Mere coincidence? Charlie reckons show, Cemetery Survivor, will be filmed at brutally murdered by there’s no harm in finding out - until a dead Cleveland’s Monroe Street Cemetery - and a Russian assassin, body turns up in his living room. (English) she has to be a part of it. To make matters Adrian, chief of MI6, Due Oct worse, the ghost of a wrongly convicted killer wants vengeance. He G M FORD needs Pepper’s help to clear his name, but also wants answers - Identity (aka Nameless Night) digging for the truth could put her in grave answers that can only 320pp Pb $19.99 danger. (American) Due Oct be revealed by Finn’s Paul Hardy has lived in a care home for the Mark DAPIN widow, Anna, the past seven years with no memory of who he King of the Cross former KGB colonel is or where he came from. When a horrific 320pp Tp $32.99 who betrayed her accident necessitates pioneering surgery he To record his country for love and has now disappeared begins to remember things. Things that if he’s epic life story, with their child. Adrian isn’t the only one not careful will get him killed. With no choice Jacob Mendoza, desperate to find Anna. Finn accessed but to go on the run, Hardy must use all his legendary intelligence so confidential that the KGB are guile and strength to evade the ruthless Godfather of Kings willing to kill to protect it and now everyone predators who stalk his every move while Cross, employs wants to know what Russia is concealing he tries to piece together a sinister puzzle. a hapless young beneath its veil of political cordiality. (English) (American) Due Oct reporter from Due Oct the Australian Carola DUNN Jewish Times. As Death at Wentwater Court (1994) Mendoza unfolds 192pp Pb $21.99 his seductive story Daisy Dalrymple #1. No stranger to sprawling of thugs and drugs, country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple murders and mysteries, bikers, bent cops is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court and girls, girls, girls, it emerges that he’s not to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. the only one with a past. And as the memoir But her interview gives way to interrogation takes shape, other more terrifying criminals when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a are circling the kingdom that Mendoza built. chilly end on the tranquil skating pond. With (Australian) Due Oct evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard. (English) Due Oct tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 3 CRIME CHRONICLE Christopher FOWLER Matthew GLASS Heather GRAHAM The Victoria Vanishes Ultimatum 400pp Pb $32.95 Unhallowed Ground 368pp Pb $24.95 Joe Benton has just been elected 368pp Pb $16.95 Bryant & May #6. One night, Arthur Bryant the 48th president of the United States. A Harrison Investigation Novel. When Sarah witnesses a drunk woman coming out of a Only days after winning, he learns from that McKinley begins restoring an historic Florida pub. The next morning, she is found dead previous estimates regarding the effect of mansion, she makes a grim discovery. Hidden at the exact spot where their paths crossed. global warming on rising sea levels have within the walls of Sarah’s dream house Even more disturbing, the pub has vanished. been grossly underestimated. With the are the remains of dozens of bodies - some Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they world frighteningly close to catastrophe, dating back over a century. Then Caleb were over a century before, but the elderly Benton must save the United States from Anderson, a private investigator, shows up detective has already lost the funeral urn of environmental devastation. He resumes at the mansion. He believes several current an old friend. Could he be losing his mind as secret bilateral negotiations with the Chinese missing-persons cases are linked to the house well? Then it becomes clear that a number – now the world’s worst polluter – and as the and its dark past. Working together to find of women have met their ends in London two superpowers lock horns, the ensuing the connection and stop a contemporary pubs. It seems a silent, secret killer is at work, battle of wits becomes a race against time. killer, Sarah and Caleb grow closer to each striking in full view... and yet nobody has a (Australian) other even as the solution to the murders clue how, or why - or where he’ll attack next. Juan GOMEZ-JURADO eludes them. But soon Caleb realises he (English) Due Oct Contract with God could lose Sarah to a killer with an ability Dick & Fran FRANCIS 352pp Pb $32.99 to transcend time in a quest for blood and Even Money 400pp Hb $49.95 Father Anthony Fowler sacrifice. (American) Due Oct Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a #2. Father Anthony Mark GREANEY bookmaker - taking over the family business Fowler, CIA operative The Gray Man 464pp Pb $19.95 from his grandfather. When a grey-haired and member of the Court Gentry is known as The Gray man steps forward from the crowd claiming Vatican’s secret service, Man, a legend in the covert realm, moving to be his father, Ned’s life is thrown into the Holy Alliance, pays silently from job to job, accomplishing the turmoil. He’d been told since he was a baby a visit to a war criminal impossible and then fading away. But there that his parents had died in a car crash. and offers him a deal are forces more lethal than Gentry in the Barely an hour later, his newly found father - he will not reveal the world and in their eyes, Gentry has just is stabbed by an unknown assailant in the man’s true identity in outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going Ascot car park and Ned finds himself in a exchange for a huge to prove that for him, there’s no grey area race to solve his father’s riddles, a race where candle covered in fine between killing for a living-and killing to stay coming second could cost him more than filigree gold. But it isn’t the gold Fowler is alive. (American) Due Oct even money, it could cost him his life. (Welsh) after, it is the metallic object preserved within Kerry GREENWOOD Due Oct the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient Forbidden Fruit 312pp Tp $22.99 Brian FREEMAN map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition Corinna Chapman #5. Corinna The Burying Place to Jordan, but there is a traitor in the group Chapman, owner of Earthly Delights, detests 368pp Tp $32.99 who has links to terrorist organisations back Christmas. She’s dreaming of quiet, air- Jonathan Stride #5. Lieutenant Jonathan in the US and who is patiently awaiting the conditioned comfort, but instead finds herself Stride is quietly recovering from injuries moment to strike. (Spain) Due Oct dealing with a rose-loving donkey named sustained on his latest case when a rich Margaret GRACE Serena, a maniacal mother with staring doctor’s baby is kidnapped and his peace is Mourning in Miniature eyes, a distracted assistant searching for the shattered. As suspicion builds that the doctor 320pp Pb $16.95 perfect muffin recipe, her friend the fearless may have staged the baby’s disappearance, Miniature Mystery #4. witch Meroe and the luscious Daniel with the relationship between the doctor and his Miniaturist Gerry Porter whom she’d like to spend a lot more time. wife and neighbours begins to disintegrate. has been looking But Daniel is on the hunt to find two young Stride and his lover and partner Serena find forward to her 30th runaways, Brigid and Manny. When Corinna themselves on opposite sides of the case with high school reunion, but and Daniel find that Brigid is on the streets, Stride pursuing evidence that incriminates when a former athlete heavily pregnant and in danger, the stakes the doctor and Serena trying to prove that is murdered, Gerry must rise and Corinna and Daniel go head-to-head the baby really was abducted. As the threads employ all her skills to with a sinister religious cult on a mission and of both investigations converge, the chase reconstruct the scene a band of Romany gypsies out for revenge. uncovers a series of revelations that may of the crime. (American) (Australian) Due Oct damn the doctor - or prove his innocence. Due Oct Peter GRIMSDALE (American) Due Oct C S GRAHAM Just Watch Me 352pp Tp $32.99 Michele GIUTTARI The Solomon Effect Dan Carter, his wife Sara and their The Death of a Mafia Don 400pp Pb $16.95 two children are at Gatwick, about to get 384pp Tp $29.99 A German U-boat lost in the final days of on a plane that will take them on their first Michele Ferrara #3. A bomb explodes in the the Second World War rested silent and holiday as a family. Sara has planned the centre of Florence, hitting the car of Chief dead in the deep waters off the Russian trip in meticulous detail, but at the check- Superintendent Michele Ferrara of the elite coast for more than half a century--carrying in desk, Dan finds his passport is missing. Squadra Mobile. A week a cargo too terrifying to contemplate. Now Exasperated, he tells them to go ahead. A few later, another bomb it has been found and its terrible treasure hours later, Dan sees on a newsflash that the explodes - bringing liberated... by those who would set the world plane has gone down over the ocean and tragedy for Ferrara and on fire. A remote viewer working in top secret with a single blow his life is shattered. Soon, a determination to find for the US government, October Guinness however, questions start to haunt him. Was the culprit. Who is the can ‘see’ events occurring on the other side it an accident his passport disappeared? Did mysterious influence of the globe. But she and her loose cannon Sara have a whole life he was unaware of? The behind the bombings - partner, CIA agent Jax Alexander have arrived search for answers sets him on a deadly trail someone even the Mafia too late to prevent a bloodbath and perhaps of revenge, but the truth may be the last thing fear? (Italian) Due Oct the Apocalypse as well. (American) Due Oct he wants to find. (English)Due Oct www.abbeys.com.au 4 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Tom HARPER Arnaldur INDRIDASON Roderic JEFFRIES The Book of Secrets Hypothermia 320pp Tp $34.95 Sun, Sea and Murder 592pp Pb $24.95 Reykjavik 240pp Tp $27.95 A young woman discovers an extraordinary Murders #6. One Inspector Alvarez #33. Laid-back Inspector secret, but before she can reveal it, she cold autumn Enrique Alvarez regards his newest case, disappears. All that survives is a picture of a night, a woman like all work, as an unwanted interruption mysterious medieval playing card that has is found hanging in his lifestyle. He soon discovers, however, perplexed scholars for centuries. Nick Ash from a beam in her that this routine inquiry has far-reaching does research for the FBI in New York. Six summer cottage consequences he could never have foreseen... months ago his girlfriend Gillian walked out by Lake Thingvellir. (English) Due Oct and broke his heart. Now he’s the only person At first sight it Denis JOHNSON who can save her - if it’s not too late. Hunted appears to be a Nobody Move: A Novel across Europe, Nick follows Gillian’s trail into straightforward 195pp Tp $32.99 the heart of a 500-year-old mystery, but case of suicide. Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called there are men who have devoted their lives But when Karen, Juarez, who sends someone round to collect. to keeping the secret and they will stop at the friend who found her body, approaches Luntz doesn’t actually plan to shoot the guy, nothing to protect it. (English) Due Oct Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance but the way he sees it, it’s shoot or be shot. Mandasue HELLER that Maria had attended, his curiosity is The problem is nobody messes with Juarez Two- Faced 416pp Tp $32.99 aroused. Driven by a need to find answers and lives to tell the tale. Against all the odds, Mia and Michelle that even he does not fully understand, however, it seems that somebody up there is couldn’t look more alike Erlendur embarks on an unofficial looking out for Luntz, if only he can keep his - or act more differently. investigation to find out why the woman’s life cool. (American) ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. Mia’s always been the Susan KANDEL (Iceland) Due Oct glamorous one, the one Dial H for Hitchcock everyone wants to get Sue Ann JAFFARIAN 320pp Tp $28.95 close to. And now she’s Ghost a la Mode 312pp Tp $29.95 Cece Caruso Mystery a model, on the edge Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery #1. #5.Cece Caruso - of fame. But Mia can’t Granny was notorious for her award-winning mystery biographer resist the illegal thrills apple pies - and for murdering her husband extraordinaire, vintage that come with fame. in the orchard. The only trouble is, Granny clothing enthusiast and When disaster strikes, her mousy look-alike didn’t kill her husband. She was framed, then part-time sleuth - is sister has to pretend to be Mia. Michelle murdered. For more than 100 years, Granny’s the prime suspect in a saves her career and turns out to have star spirit has been searching for someone to murder case. To clear quality too. She’s even got someone to fall help her see that justice is served. Together, her name and put the in love with her - a man Mia wants almost Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of real murderer in jail, as much as she wants to be a supermodel. the past - starting with Granny’s own unjust Cece goes on the lam, That’s something Mia will never, ever forgive. murder rap in the final days of the California where she’ll encounter mysterious strangers, (English) Due Oct Gold Rush. (American) Due Oct unhelpful strippers, a bottle of Hitchcock - David HEWSON Maxim JAKUBOWSKI blond hair dye - and twists and turns so eerie Dante’s Number The Mammoth Book of Best it’s as if the auteur himself were writing the 400pp Pb $19.99 International Crime script. (American) Due Oct Nic Costa #7. The death mask of the poet 544pp Pb $24.99 Marshall KARP Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of This collection contains 40 short stories from Blood Thirsty 459pp Pb $17.99 a controversial new film, Inferno. But at the an all-star line-up of international writers, Barry Gerber is one of the most grand unveiling, this priceless artefact is covering the full spectrum of crime fiction, powerful - and hated - men in Hollywood. replaced by a macabre death mask of the from noir and thrillers, to whodunnits and Turning up dead in a garbage can brings him film’s star, Allan Prime. Minutes later the procedurals, with settings that include under the eyes of Detectives Mike Lomax leading actress, Maggie Flavier, is threatened Italy, Cuba, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, Japan, and Terry Biggs. Just two days later another before her attacker is shot. Nic Costa and his Germany, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain and despised actor bad-boy is found murdered in team are sidelined from the investigation the UK. Contributing authors include Ian the same sadistic manner. Wading through in Rome and follow the movie to its next Rankin, John Mortimer, Boris Akunin, Mark a list of suspects as long as the credits of showing in San Francisco, hoping to recover Billingham, Giorgio Faletti, Jo Nesbo, Jeffrey the latest blockbuster and a number of the stolen death mask. With the authorities Deaver and Ruth Rendell (English) Due Oct leads to match, they have to race to prevent distracted by false leads, can Costa protect P D JAMES another Hollywood hot-shot getting the cut. Maggie, find the truth and stop the killer - all The Private Patient (American) before life imitates art? (English) Due Oct 512pp Pb $24.95 Marshall KARP Elise HYATT Inspector Adam Dalgliesh #14. When Dalgliesh Flipping Out 347pp Tp $26.95 Dipped, Stripped, and Dead and his team are called in to investigate the When a mystery author makes a run-down 288pp Pb $14.95 murder of a notorious investigative journalist house in Los Angeles the scene of a grisly Daring Finds Mystery #1. and a second equally horrific death, they murder in her latest novel, it seems makes Divorced and strapped find themselves confronted with problems for great business. But for cash, Candyce even more complicated than the question of a series of real murders ‘Dyce’ Dare starts up innocence or guilt. (English) Due Oct start taking place in the Daring Finds, a furniture house and Detectives refinishing business, but Mike Lomax and Terry when she goes dumpster Biggs have to track diving for discarded down the killer before furniture and uncovers he murders his next a corpse, she may find logical target - Marilyn, herself redecorating a jail Terry’s wife. (American) cell. (American) Due Oct tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 5 CRIME CHRONICLE Alex KAVA Stieg LARSSON Peter LOVESEY Exposed 396pp Pb $16.95 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ The Headhunters Maggie O’Dell #6. Maggie knows Nest 576pp Tp $32.95 352pp Pb $22.99 dangerous minds from hauntingly perverse Millennium #3. Salander is plotting her revenge Hen Mallin Mystery #2. Jo and Gemma are child predators to cunningly twisted serial against the man who tried to kill her and friends who meet for coffee every Saturday to killers. Now she faces a new opponent from against the government institutions that very gossip and discuss the state of the world. At inside an isolation ward. Maggie must find nearly destroyed her life. (Sweden) Due Oct one such meeting, Gemma mentions killing clues to catch the killer while waiting to see if Stephen LEATHER her boss and Jo goes along with the joke. But a lethal strain of a virus is already multiplying Live Fire 480pp Pb $19.99 Jo is not amused when she finds a real body in her body. (American) Dan Shepherd #6. Dan ‘Spider’ on the beach at Selsey soon afterwards - an Faye KELLERMAN Shepherd is sent to infiltrate a team of bank unidentified nearly-naked woman, who has Blindman’s Bluff robbers in Thailand. But when he does, he been drowned. It takes DCI Hen Mallin and 400pp Tp $32.99 discovers that he has more in common with her team some time to discover who the Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus #18. Guy Kaffey them than he first thought. Meanwhile, a far woman is, and as they are investigating, Jo thought his wealth could acquire anything- more sinister threat is stalking the streets and Gemma are getting into more trouble including the best security money can buy. of London. A group of home-grown Islamic - they keep coming across dead bodies... When his family are gunned to death on their fundamentalist fanatics embarks on a (English) Due Oct vast Butterfly Ranch estate, it’s clear that he campaign of terror the like of which Britain John LUTZ was tragically wrong. Lieutenant Peter Decker has never seen... and Shepherd is the only Urge to Kill 448pp Pb $14.95 of the LAPD is given the task of piecing man who can stop them. (English) Due Oct Frank Quinn #4. In a city terrorised by together what happened. (American) Due Oct Dennis LEHANE bloody brutality, Quinn and his team hunt a Jonathan KELLERMAN The Given Day 736pp Pb $24.95 psychopath who lures beautiful women into a True Detectives 480pp Pb $19.99 Danny Coughlin is Boston Police night of unbridled passion, then wakes them Moe Reed Department royalty and the son of to a vicious, drawn-out death. Stumbling over and Aaron Fox are on one of the city’s most beloved and powerful a trail of horribly defiled bodies, Quinn can’t the twisted trail of a police captains. His beat is the predominately seem to catch up to the killer - because the missing girl. PIs can Italian neighbourhoods of the North End killer is about to catch up to him. (American) do things, legally, that where political dissent is in the air - fresh and Due Oct cops can’t. And cops intoxicating. On the hunt for hard-line radicals Ed McBAIN have access to resources as a favour to his father, Danny is drawn into Killer’s Choice (1958) denied their private the ideological fray and finds his loyalties 219pp Pb $17.99 counterparts. Only by compromised as the police department itself A 87th Precinct novel. A homicide in the 87th pooling their efforts becomes swept up in potentially violent Precinct wasn’t exactly front-page news. But - and by consulting a man both brothers labour strife. (American) Due Oct two murders made headlines. Both added up respect, psychologist Alex Delaware, do Fox Attica LOCKE to big trouble. A crazy bag lady is Detective and Reed stand a chance of peeling back the Black Water Rising Steve Carella’s best witness, but a mistake by secrets in high places that explain the fate 448pp Tp $32.99 Carella’s new partner Cotton Hawes could put of an outwardly innocent young woman. Jay knows a boat ride them both in the line of fire - where a wrong (American) Due Oct on the Bayou won’t move could get a good cop killed. (American) Daniel KEYES measure up to his Judi McCOY The Asylum Prophecies: wife’s expectations of Hair of the Dog 336pp Pb $14.95 A Psychological Thriller a birthday celebration, Dog Walker Mystery #2. Professional 336pp Pb $16.95 but it’s all he can dog walker Ellie Engleman is more than just The key to thwarting a terrorist plot is buried afford. Once a man of a pal to her pooches- she can also read their deep in the subconscious of a schizophrenic virtuous ideals, he is minds. When Ellie and her terrier mix Rudy girl. A federal agent must save her and unlock now just waiting for a find the corpse of a troubled-but-harmless her mind before the terrorists can silence her break; all that changes park-dweller in Central Park, she becomes a forever. (American) Due Oct when gun shots and prime suspect for murder. When it turns out Lynda LA PLANTE sharp cries for help Rudy is the sole beneficiary of the victim’s Silent Scream 656pp Tp $32.99 ring out. When he fishes a woman out of the inheritance, Ellie, Rudy and Detective Sam Anna Travis #5. Hot Bayou, his sixth sense tells him this charitable Ryder follow the trail of clues to a key to a young British film act will lead to no good. Unravelling the safety deposit box that just might point to star Amanda Delany woman’s past, Jay finds himself enmeshed in the motive and help them sniff out the real had the world at her a web that weaves together greed, politics, killer. (American) Due Oct feet. Never one for and corporate corruption. And the secrets of Liam McILVANNEY the quiet life, she’d his own past come back to either haunt or All the Colours of the Town had a string of affairs save him. (American) Due Oct 336pp Tp $32.99 with famous actors, Bill LOEHFELM When Glasgow journalist Gerry Conway making perfect fodder Fresh Kills 340pp Pb $24.95 receives a phone call promising unsavoury for the tabloids...Then When John Sanders Jr learns that his information about Scottish Justice Minister came a commission to father has been murdered, his only regret Peter Lyons, his instinct is that this apparent write a tell-all memoir. is that he didn’t pull the trigger himself. Yet scoop won’t warrant space. But as Conway’s When Amanda is found brutally murdered, despite his rage at his father for a lifetime of investigation takes him from Scotland to the suspects are lining up - from jealous abuse, he becomes obsessed with finding Belfast, he grows obsessed with the story of ex-flatmates to famous lovers to a corrupt the killer. When a chance for revenge finally Lyons and all he represents. And as he digs agent. DCI James Langton leads his team in arrives, Junior must decide whether he will deeper, he comes to understand that there an extensive enquiry. Meanwhile, Anna Travis continue the chain of violence or accept the is indeed a story to be uncovered; and that is up for promotion, but Langton is blocking challenge of a new beginning. (American) there are people who will go to great lengths her, with an accusation of professional Due Oct to ensure that it remains hidden. (New misconduct. (English) Due Oct Zealand) Due Oct www.abbeys.com.au 6 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Colin McLAREN Carla NEGGERS Sara PARETSKY On the Run 304pp Tp $29.99 The Mist 352pp Pb $16.99 Hardball 464pp Tp $32.99 For two When Lizzie VI Warshawsji #13. In fulfilling years, Cole Goodwin Rush uncovers an obligation to someone, VI tries to find is deep undercover evidence that thrill- an African-American man who has been infiltrating the seeking billionaire missing since 1967. The case draws VI back Australia Mafia Norman Estabrook into the Civil Rights Era and memories of her and bad guys are may be at the centre childhood and her father. But it also has very put away. But a of an international real ramifications in the present day, when lieutenant from the criminal network, she her young cousin goes missing and VI fears Calabria Mafia has finds herself playing having roused the wrath of Chicago’s most been despatched a dangerous game of vicious gang, the Anacondas - and maybe to terminate him cat and mouse. Now worse, having roused Chicago’s politicians... and too late he Lizzie has no choice (American) Due Oct realises that someone in the Australian Crime but to trust Will, a man who lives by a code of Richard North PATTERSON Authority is not who he seems... (Australian) personal honour and answers to no one. At Eclipse 400pp Pb $19.99 Due Oct least until the mist clears and the frightening American Jame McLEAN truth is revealed. (American) Due Oct lawyer, Damon Pierce, When Blood’s Enough Brenda NOVAK attempts to save 284pp Tp $29.95 The Perfect Murder Bobby Okari, the West “There is a place in Australia’s vast outback 448pp Pb $16.95 African leader of a where the rest of the world doesn’t matter. Perfect Series #6. For more than a year, protest movement, Some people out there call it hell and some Sebastian Costas has been trying to unravel from execution by people call it home.” In this harsh setting the truth behind the murder of his ex-wife the country’s corrupt amongst turmoil that most couldn’t imagine, and son. Despite overwhelming evidence to and autocratic leader. Cole Lee sits with blood on his hands and a the contrary, he’s convinced that her second Complicating matters sadness in his heart that will never go away. husband - a cop - committed both murders, further is Okari’s wife, He had tried to fight the system and he’d then faked his own death. Now Sebastian Marissa Brand, with tried to save his life, his love and his land, but has followed the slimmest of leads to whom Pierce had a relationship years before were the sacrifices he made really worth it? Sacramento...and that’s where he finally gets that he’s never quite forgotten; she, in fact, (Australian) the break he needs. (American) Due Oct persuaded him to take the case in the first A A MILNE Carol O’CONNELL place, and it is who she plays a crucial role in The Red House Mystery (1922) Bone by Bone 512pp Pb $22.99 the eventual outcome... 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Josh is coming home... bone by Marshal Guarnaccia is called upon to other four unconscious. The man disappears bone. (American) Due Oct investigate the murder of a young woman he along with some, but not all, of the bank’s is convinced that there’s more to the family Clare O’DONOHUE money. And so begins the biggest manhunt than meets the eye, and wonders if the girl’s A Drunkard’s Path in Japanese history. (English) Due Oct father, Paoletti, might have had something to 256pp Pb $25.95 Mark PEARSON do with her death. (English) Due Oct Someday Quilts Mystery #2. In the sleepy town Blood Work 352pp Pb $21.95 Bill NAPIER of Archers Rest, Nell Fitzgerald is finishing her The first victim is a found on The Furies 512pp Pb $16.95 first quilt and preparing for her first date with Hampstead Heath, with her throat been An unidentified object crashes from Police Chief Jesse Dewalt. When Jesse stands slashed and body mutilated. This is the the sky into an Arizona canyon, releasing her up, it turns out he has a good reason - the beginning of Detective Inspector Jack anthrax spores and leaving innocent victims body of a murdered young woman has been Delaney’s toughest ever case. When second in its wake. Investigators are shocked by discovered near the Hudson River. Meanwhile body is discovered in a north London flat what they find in the rubble: a swastika. They Nell takes drawing classes with the famous with a brightly coloured scarf tied around call upon former spy and World War II-era artist Oliver White. But once another woman’s her neck, it suddenly becomes clear that a weapons expert Lewis Sharp for help. Could body is found, Nell begins to patch together psychopath is on the loose. However, violent this be a biochemical weapon designed clues that suggests her professor may also events from Delaney’s past are threatening to by the Nazis half a century ago - or is it an have a degree in the art of murder. 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After Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor surviving his deadly look after her gangster brother, wanted for sax player working undercover, an ex-con with fall, Jack must now multiple murders back home in Naples. Mario a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel race against his many Castrolami is a senior Carabinieri investigator Merman and a mysterious entity known as the enemies to locate of the Camorra, his career dedicated to Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge and set in place the destroying the corruption and violence of the set up by some dentists. (American) Due Oct remaining pieces of The Machine before the clans. When Immacolata calls from London Ian RANKIN coming Armageddon. (Australian) Due Oct to say she is prepared to collaborate with The Complaints Ruth RENDELL justice, he knows she is setting in motion a 400pp Tp $32.99 The Monster in the Box terrifying and unpredictable series of events. 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Isolated by the snow, Joakim Tally will have to dip deep into her small is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her does not know that visitors - as unwelcome Texan town’s darkest secrets and churn up father’s extensive Wellesley estate. Boston as they are terrifying - are making their way stories some would prefer to keep in the past. criminal defence attorney David Cavanaugh towards him. For this is the darkest night of (American) Due Oct is thrust into this high-society case when the year, and the night when the living meet James Matheson, a wealthy, connected but the dead. (Swedish) Due Oct unaffected law student is arrested for Jessica’s murder. 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But Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty and The Oct now, over a few sweltering summer days, as Final Problem. (English) Patricia CORNWELL fires burn across the state and his superiors Ariana FRANKLIN (aka Diana Norman) The Scarpetta Factor 5CDs $39.99 and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds Relics of the Dead 320pp Tp $32.95 An apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling. Adelia Aguilar #3. The monks of Glastonbury her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a (Australian) have discovered two strange skeletons buried famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex HISTORICAL in their graveyard. Are they the remains of crime and the disappearance of a beautiful King Arthur and Guinevere? King Henry millionairess. 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Christmas, 1510; the Fox takes on the job, he learns that there’s whose son is missing, presumed dead. Tobias more to Breck than anyone thinks. This Burren, West coast of Ireland. Mara, Brehon, quits the village determined to uncover the investigating judge of the Burren, has knowledge will prove dangerous, especially truth. Unfortunately, there are many equally when murder intervenes. (English) Due Oct accepted the offer of marriage made by King determined to keep the past well hidden. Turlough Donn O’Brien. But, on the eve of Kathy REICHS (English) Due Oct the marriage festivities, a man in the abbey 206 Bones CD $39.95 Arthur Conan DOYLE church is violently battered to death. Who A routine case turns sinister when Dr The Best of Sherlock Holmes could have planned to kill the king? Or was Temperance Brennan is accused of 480pp Hb $17.99 it his cousin, Mahon O’Brien, who was the mishandling the autopsy of a missing heiress. These 15 short stories show the master planned victim? 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