“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #228 January 2005 2004 THE YEAR IN REVIEW It has been a wonderful year for crime fiction, dominated undoubtedly by the Dan Brown phenomenon. I can’t think of another author whose extraordinary success with one novel has led to all his earlier titles moving on to the bestseller lists and remaining there for most of the year. Only Angels and Demons was at all similar to The Da Vinci Code in that it had the same main character and involved conspiracy and the Vatican. Of course, not only has he had success with his own books, but he has started a whole industry of books explaining, debunking, decoding, etc the Da Vinci Code and no doubt tours to the various sites mentioned in the book. It will be interesting to see what he comes up with next. Historical crime is again dominated by Elizabeth Peters with her Amelia Peabody mysteries (there are 16 in the series), now with Lindsey Davis not far behind. Australian crime saw (in our shop, at least) the bestselling list dominated by Kerry Greenwood with six of her titles in our Top 10. Non-fiction saw Helen Garner’s Joe Cinque’s Consolation way out in front, followed by Peter Rees’ Ned Kelly Award-winning Killing Juanita. Elizabeth Peters also made this list, but it was dominated by Australian titles. Our Top 10 lists are: MODERN CRIME HISTORICAL CRIME 1. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Pb 19.95) 1. Children of the Storm 2. Rule of Four by Elizabeth Peters (Pb 21.95) by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason (Tp 29.95) 2. Scandal Takes a Holiday 3. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Ramotswe 1) by Lindsey Davis (Tp 32.95) by Alexander McCall Smith (Pb 22.95) 3. Badger's Moon by Peter Tremayne (Pb 18.95) 4. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Pb 19.95) 4. Accusers by Lindsey Davis (Pb 21.95) 5. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (Pb 19.95) 5. Templar's Penance by Michael Jecks (Pb 18.95) 6. Tears of the Giraffe (Ramotswe 2) 6. Play of Isaac by Margaret Frazer (Pb 16.95) by Alexander McCall Smith (Pb 22.95) 7. The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits 7. The Cat Who Talked Turkey edited by Mike Ashley (Pb 21.95) by Lilian Jackson Braun (Pb 18.95) 8. Death at Glamis Castle 8. Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon (Tp 32.95) by Robin Paige (Pb 16.95) 9. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies 9. Death at St James' Palace (Ramotswe 6) by Deryn Lake (Pb 19.95) by Alexander McCall Smith (Hb 29.95) 10. Guardian of the Horizon 10.Deception Point by Dan Brown (Pb 19.95) by Elizabeth Peters (Hb 44.95) AUSTRALIAN CRIME CRIME NON-FFICTION 1. Queen of the Flowers 1. Joe Cinque's Consolation by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 19.95) by Helen Garner (Tp 30.00) 2. Earthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 19.95) 2. Killing Juanita by Peter Rees (Tp 29.95) 3. Phryne Fisher Omnibus V1 3. Amelia Peabody's Egypt by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 22.95) by Elizabeth Peters (Hb 59.95) 4. Coast Road by Peter Corris (Pb 19.95) 4. Bristow: Last of the Hard Men 5. Ruddy Gore by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 19.95) by Kevin Perkins (Pb 24.95) 6. Raisins and Almonds 5. Marching Powder by Rusty Young (Tp 30.00) by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 19.95) 6. Gatton Murders by Stephanie Bennett (Tp 30.00) 7. Ambulance Chaser 7. Pointing from the Grave by Richard Beasley (Tp 30.00) by Samantha Weinberg (Pb 22.95) 8. Degrees of Connection by Jon Cleary (Pb 18.95) 8. Cosa Nostra by John Dickie (Pb 27.95) 9. No Trace by Barry Maitland (Tp 29.95) 9. Forensic Casebook by N E Genge (Tp 39.95) 10.Murder in Montparnasse 10. All Things Bright and Beautiful by Kerry Greenwood (Pb 19.95) by Susan Mitchell (Tp 30.00) -Peter AUSTRALIA DAY WED 26 JAN WE ARE OPEN 10AM - 5PM 2 Modern Crime Michael ASHER Patti BERG Sandstorm 307pp Pb 18.95 I’m No Angel 372pp Pb 14.95 Paul ADAM Morocco, 1943: 14-year-old Billy Easily Palm Beach’s sexiest Sleeper 320pp Tp 29.95 Sterling regains consciousness alone in private investigator, Angel Devlin wears the desert. Beside him is the wreckage of Jimmy Choo shoes and always gets her Rainaldi was a violin-maker and a light aircraft and the pilot’s corpse. He man; bad boy millionaire Tom Donovan when he was discovered does not see the human eyes, watching is at the top of her Most Wanted list. slumped over his workbench, him from a distance. London, 1950: Instinct tells her that drop-dead-gorgeous murdered with one of his own chisels, George Bridger Sterling is still Tom has something wicked up his sleeve. both the police and his friends are at a experiencing profound anguish over the She is the first to admit she is no angel, loss to discover a motive. Then it comes to disappearance of his son, who has not but that does not stop Tom from falling light that Rainaldi had believed he was on been seen for seven years. His terrible head over heels in love with the the track of an infamous Stradivarius - feeling of guilt allows him to persist in the mischievous blonde. (American) twin to the one housed in the Asmolean belief Billy is still alive. Then George is Museum and subject to 200 years of myth Ingrid BLACK contacted by a mysterious stranger, who and rumour. With nothing else to go on, The Dark Eye 302pp Pb 18.95 claims to be the co-pilot of the crashed his two close friends pick up the search, A Saxon novel #2. A hit man is on the plane. He has information that could lead plunging headlong into loose, targeting men, seemingly at to Billy - for a price! (British) a world where great random, all over Dublin. Each time the musical instruments Mike ASHLEY (editor) victim is killed by a single shot, always change hands for The Mammoth Book of Roaring from a different gun. When former FBI millions, where forgery Twenties Whodunnits agent Saxon is drawn into the is an art form and 533pp Pb 24.95 investigation she believes that the fourth where murder is often a Ashley’s brilliant new collection of victim, a photographer called Felix, holds dealer’s chosen method whodunits presents stories that reflect all the key to the killer’s identity. As DCS of negotiation. (British) the excitement, escapism and eccentricity Grace Fitzgerald and her team hunt for of the 1920s. The Roaring Twenties, the the hit man, Saxon is urged on by Felix’s Jazz Age, the Age of Wonderful Nonsense sister to delve deeper into his world and KEY - this was the decade when everyone uncovers secrets that someone wants to went a little bit crazy with the euphoria of remain buried... (British) academic getting through the War, but beneath the Nero BLANC banking dazzle and glitter lay a darker side. A Crossworder’s Gift (British) 187pp Tp 29.00 canine detectives Marian BABSON The irrepressible crossword editor Belle Retreat from Murder Graham and her PI partner, Rosco clerical 192pp Hb 45.00 Polycrates, are back in more short stories The quaint village of Brimful Coffers, from the bestselling authors. (American) cosy/malice domestic colonised by a group of mystery writers, Anna BLUNDY is viewed by them to be an ideal retreat Bad News Bible 480pp Pb 18.95 culinary/food from the stresses and harsh realities of the This is #1 in a planned sequence of outside world. But sometimes tragedy novels featuring Faith Zanetti, war fbi can intrude even into paradise. First, a correspondent. Faith is not covering Israel village child is killed; victim of a callous out of some kind of altruism but because feline detectives hit-and-run incident and then two she got posted by the fat drunk who is her visiting authors discover they are both foreign editor. And she loves it. It is hot, it forensic using the same well-known Elizabethan is complicated, there is always some action lady as the heroine of their respective and her friends are there, slouched at the horse racing mystery history-mystery series. The situation bar of Jerusalem’s American Colony Hotel. threatens to end in poisoned pens at medical But when Faith finds the naked corpse of dawn, unless cooler heads prevail. When her best friend Shiv hanging from the one author falls victim to a fatal hit-and- military doorframe, she cannot keep her run, is it accident or murder? (British) journalistic distance any more. (British) native american Colin BATEMAN Dan BROWN Driving Big Davie 377pp Pb 18.95 The Da Vinci Code 466pp Lh 59.95 police procedural For many years, Dan Starkey has been Beautifully produced, this new a journalist of some repute, mainly ill. illustrated large format hardcover allows political/legal Now he is back with his wife Patricia and the reader behind the scenes, while they try for a baby he is aiming to incorporating over psychological keep himself out of trouble. Had he not 150 photos and been caught in a rather awkward position illustrations that show private eye when he received a phone call from Big the rich historical Davie Kincaird and had he not drunk too tapestry from which romantic suspense much in order to cover the awkwardness the author drew his of seeing this friend he hasn’t known for inspiration. Weighs sport 25 years, he might not have found himself 1.6kg. (American) agreeing to go on honeymoon in Florida spy for three weeks with Big Davie. What else could possibly go wrong? (British) suspense/thriller AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Sandra BROWN Caroline CARVER Jasmine CRESSWELL Unspeakable 488pp Pb 18.95 Dead Heat 393pp Pb 17.95 Decoy 379pp Pb 12.95 Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. He Georgia Parish never regretted leaving Art gallery owner Melody Beecham graduated easily from juvenile Nulgarra in Far Northern Queensland to was raised in the elite social circles of her delinquent to full-blown killer. Now he pursue her career. She did not miss the English mother Rosalind, and her has carried out a daring escape from jail oppressive heat, the wet, the bugs or the American father Wallis Beecham, a self- and is headed back to where it all began. deadly wilderness. But after a plane crash made millionaire. But when her mother Anna Corbett was widowed right before she finds herself back there, struggling to dies suddenly, a shocking truth is her son was born. Beset by debt and comprehend the fact her plane was revealed: Wallis is not Melody’s father personal tragedy, she faces the toughest sabotaged. Was it someone hoping to kill and worse, he is a very dangerous man. challenge of her life - holding on to the Ronnie Chen, the man who never turned Unaware that she is being monitored by ranch that is her son’s birthright - up to take the flight? Or is it to do with members of a covert government agency unaware that she is at the centre of the two other passengers, heroic Lee known as Unit One, Melody is about to be Herbold’s vengeful plan. (American) Denham and his frightened companion recruited! (American) John BUCHAN Suzie? After all, nobody could have Clive CUSSLER & Dirk CUSSLER The Four Adventures of Richard reason to want Georgia dead. Or could Black Wind 530pp Hb 49.95 Hannay 672pp Tp 34.95 they? (British) A Dirk Pitt novel. In the waning days As Robin Winks writes in the Introduction, Michael CRICHTON of WWII, the Japanese tried a different Buchan invented the timeless formula for State of Fear 600pp Pb 29.95 kind of kamikaze mission; this one great spy fiction. Here are his four most Once again Crichton gives us his carried out by two submarines bound for famous books, (Greenmantle, Mr trademark combination of page-turning the West Coast of the USA, their cargo a Standfast, The Thirty-Nine Steps and suspense, cutting-edge technology and revolutionary new strain of biological The Three Hostages), whose perilous extraordinary research. This is a superb virus. Neither sub made it to the situations, attractive hero and sheer blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense and designated target. But that does not mean excitement are as riveting today as when thought-provoking commentary on how they were lost. Dirk Pitt has faced they first appeared. (British) information is manipulated in the devastating enemies before, but never has Joe BUFF modern world. From the streets of Paris he looked upon the face of pure evil … Tidal Rip 538pp Pb 18.95 to the glaciers of Antarctica to the exotic until now. (American) A new world war has begun. It is the and dangerous Solomon Islands, it takes Ed DEE year 2012 and extremists in Germany and the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all The Con Man’s Daughter South Africa have succeeded in staging the while keeping the brain in high gear. 416pp Pb 16.95 simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin- (American) Ex-NYPD detective Eddie Dunne must Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take Harlan COBEN search his own past for clues when his 35- over the world. While the key instrument The Final Detail year old daughter Kate is kidnapped of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, it 305pp Tp 29.95 from her suburban New York home. will be won or lost by the men who Myron returns from a sabbatical Dunne is sure the disappearance has to command them. (American) (recovering from the events of One False do with his previous employment as a James Lee BURKE Move Pb 18.95) to investigate the murder general fixer for Anatoly Lukin, Last Car to Elysian Fields of a client, a troubled New York Yankees legendary Brighton Beach crime boss. 496pp Pb 19.95 baseball player called Clu Haid. Clu was And while Lukin was involved in non- For Dave Robicheaux, New Orleans and apparently shot by Esperanza Diaz, who violent activities like Medicare fraud and the memories of his life in the Big Easy just happens to be Myron’s best friend. gas gouging, his chief rival Yuri will always haunt him. When Esperanza is hiding something, but Burodenko engineered sales of Russian Robicheaux, now a police officer based in Myron is not sure if it has to do with her military weapons and was capable of the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of job or with her private life. (American) extreme violence. The search turns more New Iberia, learns that his old friend Peter CORRIS desperate when Dunne’s former partner’s Father Jimmie Dolan has been the victim Taking Care of Business head lands on his front yard. (American) of a particularly brutal assault, he returns 231pp Pb 19.95 Nelson DEMILLE to investigate, if only unofficially. What Cliff Hardy cases. These 11 stories find Cliff Night Fall 488pp Hb 49.95 he does not realise is that in doing so he is pursuing white-collar crime with the Five years after the horrific crash of inviting into his life an ancestral evil that same doggedness he applies to his more TWA Flight 800 over Long Island, John could destroy them all. (American) downmarket villains. He is minder for Corey is inadvertently caught up in the P M CARLSON Thomas Whitney, a highly strung now closed case by his FBI lawyer wife Deathwind 246pp Hb 49.95 whistle-blower, whose company is Kate, who believes the government’s A Marty Hopkins mystery. Deputy siphoning money off through Vanuatu. findings of mechanical failure is wrong. Hopkins is not pleased to be awoken in He is hired by computer genius Charles The FBI is under-whelmed by John and the middle of the night by a phone call Marriott, whose shady dot com partner Kate’s findings and sends them off to the from her boss. As tornado season hits wants control of the business and is Yemen and Tanzania as punishment. On southern Indiana, her small county letting nothing and no one get in his way. his return, John has 10 days’ leave in sheriff’s office finds And ever keen for some spare cash, Cliff which to avoid the FBI and to find that itself with a perplexing even takes a case from Spiro, his local elusive video tape which may (or not) puzzle to solve. The florist, whose son seems to be involved in show a sea-to-air missile racing up to hit body of a young some very dodgy business involving the TWA Flight 800. (American) woman has been found tobacco and big bucks. This collection of in a bank lobby but, stories featuring Australia’s favourite PI suspicious or not, the is fast-paced and entertaining. It reads in cause of death is the best Corris style. (Australian) unclear. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Rose DOYLE John FRANCOME Robert GODDARD Shadows Will Fall Stalking Horse 405pp Pb 18.95 Play to the End 441pp Pb 19.95 416pp Tp 32.95 Jockey Josh Swallow is about to Actor Toby Flood arrives in Brighton On her early morning retire. He has ridden over 1000 winners for the final week of a play when he is walk, Frances Shaw and landed all the big prizes in the sport - visited by estranged wife Jenny, who is is comes upon the naked except one. Determined that this season being stalked by a strange man. She asks body of a young the title of champion jockey will finally be Toby to follow the man and get to the woman carefully laid his, but brilliant young Irish rider Ben bottom of things. He discovers a legacy of out in the doorway of O’Brien and leading trainer Leo Lovall industrial negligence and a sinister the hospital morgue in stand in his way. There is also someone connection to Roger Colborn, Jenny’s new Dun Laoghaire. She else with a keen interest in Josh. She’s his partner. Spurred on by a desire to win her later discovers this biggest fan, though he has no idea she back, Toby asks probing questions and corpse shares in exists. And hers is the kind of obsession finds himself caught up in a dangerous common parallel that will never be satisfied - not even by tangle of family rivalries and murderous murders committed 50 years ago: the murder. (British) intent. (British) victims were young women who were Damon GALGUT Joe GORES drowned, stripped naked and left in the The Quarry 169pp Tp 28.00 Interface 224pp Pb 19.95 doorway of morgues. As she gradually On a lonely stretch of road, a Crime Masterworks #39. Neil Fargo gathers more information, Frances cannot nameless man commits a murder. The is a San Francisco PI hired by the wealthy accept the police theory of copy-cat victim is a religious minister on his way Maxwell Stayton to find his missing murders and embarks on her own to take up a post in a nearby town. The daughter. Searching the very heart of the investigation. (British) murderer decides to steal the dead man’s city’s ugly underbelly, Fargo infiltrates the Thomas FAHY identity, only to discover that one of his drug business at just about the same time Night Visions 304pp Tp 24.95 first duties as the new minister is to bury as Docker, a Vietnam veteran linked to Samantha Ranvali hasn’t slept in a body that has just been found near the Fargo, is storming through San Francisco’s months. Haunted by memories of a brutal quarry. Although there is evidence criminal underworld on a murderous attack, she seeks an experimental cure linking young petty criminals to the campaign of revenge. (American) which is a success - until she begins crime, head of police Captain Mong Ed GORMAN & Martin GREENBERG having nightmares of a violent murder knows it is the new minister who is (editors) strikingly similar to her own assault. The guilty. Building to a climax that is almost The World’s Finest Mystery and line between sleeping and waking blurs too much to bear, the Captain is Crime Stories #5 460pp Tp 39.95 even further when she discovers the body compelled to pursue the murderer across A feast of more than 30 gripping tales from of a friend in a scene that seems to have the veldt, while his exhausted quarry Jeff Abbott, Rhys Bowen, Judith Cutler, come straight from her dreams. A struggles to make good his escape. (South Brendan DuBois, Jeremiah Healy, Edward recording of Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ African) D Hoch, John Lutz, Sharyn McCrumb, plays nearby, a sinister calling-card for a Tess GERRITSEN Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Robinson, mystery that Samantha soon discovers Bloodstream 512pp Pb 18.95 Kristine Rusch and more. (American) spans more than 200 years. (American) The small resort town of Heather GRAHAM Elizabeth FLOCK Tranquillity in Maine seems like the The Presence 423pp Pb 14.95 Me & Emma 297pp Tp 24.95 perfect spot for Dr Claire Elliot to shelter Toni MacNally and her friends think In many ways, Carrie Parker is like her adolescent son Noah from the they have hit on the ultimate any other eight-year-old. She plays make- lingering memory of his father’s death. moneymaking plan: Buy an ancient run- believe, ‘hates’ school and dreams of But with the first snap of winter comes down Scottish castle, turn it into a tourist faraway places. But even her naively shocking news that puts her practice on destination, then sweep visitors into a re- hopeful mind cannot shut out the terrible the line: a teenage boy under her care has enactment that combines fact and fiction, realities of her home life or help her committed an appalling act of violence. local history, murder and an imaginary protect her younger sister. As the big Just the start of a chain of lethal outbursts, laird. Soon the group is drawn into a real- sister, Carrie is determined to do Claire uncovers a horrifying secret: twice life murder mystery. Young women are anything to keep Emma safe from a life of a century, the children of Tranquillity being killed, their bodies dumped nearby, neglect and abuse at the hands of their rampage with deadly violence. while Toni is having sinister dreams in drunken stepfather – a situation her (American) which she sees through the eyes of the mother cannot seem to see, let alone John GILSTRAP killer… (American) prevent! (British) Scott Free 359pp Pb 19.95 Jean-Christophe GRANGE Richard FORREST When Scott O’Toole accepts a lift in a Empire of the Wolves Death in the Secret Garden Cessna to a late-night concert, the plane 374pp Tp 32.95 182pp Hb 49.95 crashes in a storm, the pilot killed and Anna Heymes, the wife of a senior The new Lyon and Bea Wentworth mystery. Scott finds himself alone in a frozen government official, is suffering from The Spook is a retired and mentally wilderness. Miles from anywhere and amnesia and hallucinations. In Paris’ 10th unstable Vietnam Veteran. Wentworth, a anyone, at the mercy of the brutal arrondissement, two police officers are writer of books for children, and his wife elements, he must dig deep to survive. trying to solve the mystery of the torture Bea, a Connecticut state senator, team up While his father frantically rallies the and murder of three clandestine Turkish with long standing Police Chief Rocco rescue workers, Scott stumbles on a women workers. They discover that the Herbert to unravel a new mystery. But remote, inhabited cabin and thinks his Grey Wolves, a group of far-right Turkish nothing is as simple as it seems; and the troubles are over. Arriving in the midst of mafia members, might be responsible for whole town, including the pastor and an a horrific crime only he can prevent, Scott these murders. Simultaneously, Anna influential congressman are involved, soon discovers his terror has just begun. finds out that she had highly complicated along with a fearsome female state (British) facial surgery and looks nothing like she governor hell-bent on revenge. did before. She has no choice but to face an (American) astonishing truth. (French)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 John GRISHAM Stuart HARRISON Lesley HORTON The Last Juror 506pp Pb 19.95 Aphrodite’s Smile On Dangerous Ground In 1970, Mississippi’s more 438pp Pb 18.95 448pp Pb 17.95 colourful weekly newspaper The Ford When his archaeologist father goes An Inspector Handford Investigation #2. County Times went bankrupt. To the missing, Robert French travels to Ithaca When a young boy and then a girl are surprise and dismay of many, ownership where he meets Alex, a young woman in cruelly murdered within a few days of was assumed by a 23-year-old college search of the truth about her each other, Handford and Ali uncover not drop-out named Willie Traynor. The grandmother’s exile from the Greek island only the desperate plight of children future of the paper looked grim until a 60 years earlier. There is a link between an trapped in Bradford’s harsh criminal young mother was brutally raped and ancient treasure that Robert’s father spent underworld, but murderous corruption murdered by a member of the Padgitt many years searching for and the tragic and twisted minds in the most respected family. Traynor reported all the gruesome events surrounding Alex’s grandmother. sections of the community. (British) details and his newspaper prospered. The To find the truth Robert must come to Linda HOWARD trial of Danny Padgitt came to a dramatic understand his own past and learn to face To Die For 320pp Pb 18.95 end when the defendant threatened the troubled relationships that have After a painful divorce, Blair revenge against the jurors if they convicted dominated his life. (English) Mallory follows a dream and opens a him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty Erin HART health club. But Nicole Goodwin, a and sentenced him to life in prison. But in Lake of Sorrows 434pp Tp 32.95 troubled member of the club, develops a Mississippi in 1970, ‘life’ didn’t necessarily When workers at a vast peat strange fixation on Blair, imitating her mean ‘life’, and nine years later the extraction site in the bleak landscape of style and dress, even the car she drives. retribution began. (American) the Irish midlands uncover a long-buried Then Nicole is gunned down in the David HAGBERG corpse, they call in pathologist Nora parking lot and Blair is the only witness. By Dawn’s Early Light Gavin. The body has been strangled, At first the police investigation 375pp Pb 18.95 slashed and drowned; the ritual ‘triple concentrates on Nicole and her On the Bay of Bengal, a submarine blasts death’ of Ireland’s blood-soaked pagan acquaintances, but then someone tampers a civilian vessel out of the water and past. After Nora arrives, a much more with Blair’s car, sabotages her home and captures the lone survivor. Immediately, recent victim is discovered. Like the business. The police, including Blair’s old one of the USA’s spy satellites becomes ancient body, this new corpse seems to flame Lt Wyatt Bloodsworth, are baffled inoperative and seemingly disappears. have suffered the triple death. Nora and because these attempts, while serious, are With the USA blind, Pakistan announces her archaeologist lover Cormac Maguire very different in tone from Nicole’s an attack on India that would leave team up professionally once more. The murder. Was Blair the intended victim millions dead. The only witnesses to the danger mounts, fuelled by rumours of after all? (British) plan are a CIA insertion team, headed by ancient gold, illicit liaisons and long- Graham ISON the President’s own brother, former Navy delayed revenge. Will they become a Hardcastles Armistice #2 SEAL Scott Hanson, but they have been ruthless killer’s next victims? (British) 217pp Hb 49.95 captured and tortured. (American) John HARVEY (editor) On Armistice Day 1918, DI Ernest Raymond HAIGH Men from Boys 428pp Pb 23.95 Hardcastle finds himself on familiar Cripplehead 222pp Hb 45.00 What does it mean to be a father? territory when he investigates the murder PI Paul Lomax never wanted the What does it mean to be a son? What does of a prostitute whose body is found case. Checking on errant wives wasn’t his it mean to be a man? Gathered together in beneath Brighton’s Palace Pier. Is it a scene but Rex Saunders seemed a likeable this anthology are 16 short stories and a casual robbery or are there more sinister guy and keeping an eye on his ex-fashion- novella answering these questions in motives for her death? A beach model wife Mona promised to be all profit myriad ways. Again and again, but never photographer and an army officer who and no pain. Now Mona is terrified by two ways the same, the people who was involved in the 1917 mining of the sickening threats and the local morgue is inhabit these stories are having to Messines Ridge in Belgium both feature filling up fast. When a hit man moves in determine what is right, what will give high on Hardcastle’s list of suspects. And, and the police don’t want to know, Lomax them dignity, what will earn them self- in a parallel enquiry, a Westminster and Mona find themselves on their own. respect. Mark Billingham, Reginald Hill, alderman makes an allegation of Will they be able to hide from the violence Jeffery Deaver, Dennis Lehane, George blackmail. Is there a connection? (British) erupting around them? (British) Pelecanos, Peter Robinson and other Bill JAMES Denise HAMILTON masters of crime fiction. (Various) Easy Streets 224pp Hb 45.00 Sugar Skull 304pp Tp 29.95 Mick HERRON This is the 21st novel in the savagely An Eve Diamond novel. The body Down Cemetery Road (1984) comic and expertly choreographed count this weekend is 28 and rising fast. 288pp Pb 24.95 Harpur and Iles series. (British) Across the city, people are killing each One quiet evening in Oxford, a house Quintin JARDINE other in gruesome ways. And Eve near Sarah Tucker’s suddenly explodes. Alarm Call 273pp Tp 32.95 Diamond is writing it all down in her The cause is a gas leak, but when a child An Oz Blackstone mystery. Maybe he routine roundup story for the Los Angeles disappears in the aftermath, unhappily should have called for help himself, or Times. To complicate matters, Eve is married Sarah becomes obsessed with stuck to the game plan of looking after assigned to cover a potentially huge story trying to find her. What begins in this number one. Instead he set out on a involving a mayoral candidate and his peaceful suburb comes to a compelling voyage of dark intrigue and wild Italian wife Venus, whose body was climax on a remote and unwelcoming discovery that would turn his life upside discovered floating naked in her pool. Scottish island, as the hunt for the missing down. Again. (British) Who killed Venus? And what is the child takes Sarah out of her marriage and significance of the sugar skulls - little into a journey with a companion hunted confections for the Mexican Day of the by murderous and apparently official Dead holiday - that Eve keeps seeing forces. This acclaimed first novel sets a everywhere? (American) cracking pace with a satisfying denouement. (British)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Iris JOHANSEN Jayne Ann KRENTZ John MATTHEWS Fatal Tide 320pp Pb 18.95 Falling Awake 424pp Tp 32.95 The Shadow Chaser Melis Nemid is treading in Isabel Wright spends her days at the 467pp Pb 19.95 dangerous waters and is about to be Belvedere Centre for Sleep Research Just one man stands in the way of a killer dragged under. As a marine researcher, analysing the dreams of others. It is stalking millions Andre Lemoine, the she knows all too well the dangers satisfying, lucrative work but it can be world’s leading geneticist, is on the verge lurking under even the calmest surfaces. emotionally draining, especially when a medical breakthrough: a link with rare But not even she can guess how deep the one of her anonymous subjects captures primates that could unlock a vital key in darkness runs. Only one oceanographer her imagination through his compelling the search for a cure for AIDS. But part of ever came close to discovering the deadly dream narratives. Secretly, she thinks of Andre’s quest is driven by a pressing mystery and he seems to have him as Dream Man but his real name is medical threat within his own family, disappeared. What Melis knows about Ellis Cutler. A loner, he works for a plunging him into a race which takes him the deep-sea mystery is only part of a highly classified government agency with from the dark jungles of Africa and Brazil nightmarish past torn by violence. And an interest in the potential value of lucid to the seamy back-streets of Paris and she thought the past was behind her dreaming. Ordered by his boss to make Philadelphia. As the threat Andre loved when she arrived at her Caribbean island contact with Isabel, he is determined to ones looms stronger, it becomes a race home to research dolphin behaviour! maintain a professional relationship with through the shadows of his family’s dark (American) the mysterious woman who reads his past to, ultimately, face death head-on. Norman KELLEY dreams. But when they meet in the flesh, (British) A Phat Death: Or the Last days of a waking nightmare begins. (American) Ed McBAIN Noir Soul 238pp Pb 24.95 William LANDAY The Frumious Bandersnatch A Nina Halligan mystery featuring Mission Flats 507pp Pb 19.95 303pp Pb 17.95 Bad Girls International. Black PI Nina Ben Truman is Chief of Police in An 87th Precinct novel. This was supposed Halligan is back with a vengeance, taking Versailles, Maine. When a body is found to be the night that launched a new pop on hip-hop corruption and the long- in a cabin up by the lake, the dead man idol into the firmament. Tamar standing tradition of pimping racism for turns out to be from the Boston DA’s Valparaiso has it all: young and beautiful profit. Nina is planning on retiring into office, a prosecutor who had been with the body and voice of an angel. So, motherhood, but a hit on notorious hip- investigating a series of gang-related tonight, she is going to debut her first hopper SugarDick and her husband murders in that city. Ben heads down to single – Bandersnatch - on a luxury Glen’s relentless investigation, plunges Boston and with the help of a retired cop motor-launch in the heart of the city. But them both into the vortex of a murderous who knows all the angles, Ben becomes this is when she becomes Detective Steve power struggle over a valuable embroiled in an investigation with roots Carella’s problem. Halfway through her commodity in the recording industry: in a sequence of deaths 20 years performance and watched by millions of black music. Written in a style that previously. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Nicholas RHEA Peter ROBINSON Kjersti SCHEEN Constable in the Wilderness Not Safe after Dark and Other Final Curtain 234pp Tp 21.95 223pp Tp 21.95 Works 420pp Tp 30.00 EuroCrime Series A divorced PI The wild and rugged North York Moors This is the complete, heart-thumping with a penchant for vodka, Margaret remain one of the unexploited and least collection of short tales from the author of Moss supports her daughter with routine explored areas of England, and in deep the bestselling Inspector Banks series. assignments such as tailing faithless winter it actually looks like a true Robinson is one of the crime world’s husbands and wives. The tempo picks up wilderness. For Constable Nick of finest stylists and in this collection he when her friend, the renowned actress Aidensfield convincing the authorities explores our hidden paranoia, challenges Rakel Winkelmann, disappears. 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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Jose Carlos SOMOZA Andrew TAYLOR Sue WALKER The Art of Murder 470pp Tp 29.95 Call the Dying 436pp Tp 32.95 The Reunion 368pp Tp 29.95 In 2006, the art world has moved far A Lydmouth novel #7. It is 1955 and “Innes? Innes. It’s Isabella. Isabella beyond sheep-in-formaldehyde and the the influx of televisions does nothing to Velasco ...” This is the simple message on most avant-garde movement uses living relieve the tensions in the deeply her answer machine but one that made people as Hyperdramatic Art. Undergoing conservative town of Lydmouth. Mr Innes Haldane’s blood run cold. In 1977, weeks of preparation to become Frederick, a television engineer, arrives to both had spent a fateful year at an ‘canvases’, the models are required to stay sell and adapt the new sets. He comes for experimental home for dysfunctional in their pose for 10 to 12 hours a day and, two nights and apparently leaves. When teenagers in Edinburgh. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Mark WINEGARDNER Paul DOHERTY The Godfather: The Lost Years HISTORICAL Song of the Gladiator 288pp Tp 32.95 430pp Tp 32.95 Roman Mystery #3. 313AD, Rome. The city "The bloody victory CRIME broils under a very sultry summer, while of the Corleone Emperor Constantine and his powerful Family was not John BOYNE mother Helena are trying to make sense complete," begins Crippen 493pp Pb 22.95 of the new Christian religion. The the final chapter of 1910, Camden. A gruesome discovery has Christians cannot agree amongst Mario Puzo's The been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent. themselves and Constantine invites Godfather (Pb Buried in the cellar are the remains of delegates from both sides of the 21.95), "until a year Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer theological dispute to debate before him. of delicate and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen. 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