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“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #277 February 2009

DVDs

We have quite a collection of crime DVDs – both movies and TV series. Some of the TV series I seem to have missed on free-to-air TV (or maybe they never made it). Anyway here are some of the TV series now available on DVD to whet your appetite: Wycliffe, based on the novels by W J Burley and starring as the meticulous and clever Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. Series 1 (2 DVDs) $35, Series 2 (2 DVDs) $35, Series 3 (2 DVDs) $35, Series 4 (3 DVDs) $40 Cadfael: The Complete Series, based on the novels by Ellis Peters and starring as Brother Cadfael. 8 DVDs $80 Wallander, based on the novels by Henning Mankell and starring Krister Henriksson as Kurt Wallander. Swedish with English . Volume 1 (3 DVDs with 6 episodes) $51.95, Volume 2 (4 DVDs with 7 episodes) $50.95 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates starring Patricia Routledge as the redoubtable Hetty. Complete 2nd Series (2 DVDs) $39.95, Complete 3rd Series (3 DVDs) $49.95 Cracker: The Ultimate Collection, starring and written by Jimmy McGovern. Complete series 1, 2 & 3, plus 2 movie-length specials (9 DVDs) $80 : The Complete 1964-66 Series, starring Patrick McGoohan as John Drake. All 47 x 50-minute Danger Man adventures remastered, complete and uncut, with guest stars including Paul Eddington, Susan Hampshire, Warren Mitchell, Peter Bowles and Sylvia Sims. 13 DVDs $119.95 Taggart: The Classic Collection contains all episodes starring Mark McManus as DCI Jim Taggart. Volumes 1 to 7 (21 DVDs) $100 Blue Murder: The Complete Collection, starring Caroline Quentin as detective Janine Lewis. Series 1, 2, 3 & 4 (7 DVDs) $80 We also have Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, in A Touch of Frost, Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect (The Complete Collection), Luca Zingaretti as Inspector Montalbano (Italian with subtitles), David Wenham as Murray Whelan in The Brush Off, plus Inspector Rex, Midsomer Murders and many, many more to help you while away a summer’s evening. - Peter 2 Modern Crime Simon BECKETT Suzanne BROCKMANN Whispers of the Dead Into the Fire 656pp Pb $16.95 M C BEATON 304pp Pb $32.95 Troubleshooter #13. Vinh Murphy, Agatha Raisin and a Dr David Hunter #3. Still suffering effects onetime operative for a security firm has Spoonful of Poison of a near fatal attack, David Hunter has been MIA ever since his wife was killed. 206pp Hb $59.95 returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee, Murphy blames the neo-Nazi group Agatha Raisin #19. In the quiet where he learned his trade as a forensic known as the Freedom Network for her village of St Twadey, tragedy anthropologist. In a cabin in the hills a death. Now, years later, their leader Tim strikes at the annual jam-making body is found, tortured and decomposed Ebersole has been murdered and the FBI competition. Someone has injected LSD beyond recognition. Fingerprints found at suspects Murphy. Murphy can’t be sure into all the homemade jams and mayhem the scene seem to identify the killer, but it what he did during the years he spent ensues. Some of the more frail villagers soon becomes clear that nothing about lost in an alcohol induced fog. He does who took the jams home end up either this case is quite as it seems. Hunter know he sought solace from Hannah dead from heart attacks or from agrees to help a colleague on the Whitfield, a former police officer. He wandering in front of cars. The youth of investigation. Then a second body is believes that the Freedom Network has the village are the first suspects, along found. The trail left by the killer begins to targeted him and Hannah to avenge their with the few who have criminal records. point to an impossible conclusion and leader’s death and he’s faced with a Only Agatha suspected the vicar’s wife, Hunter finds that nothing he’s choice.. surrender his life to save Hannah, but it will take all of her detective skills to experienced before has prepared him for or risk everything to salvage whatever prove the woman guilty! (English) where it will lead... Due Feb (English) future they may have together. Due Feb KEY Anna BLUNDY (American) My Favourite Poison Rita Mae BROWN academic 256pp Pb $23.00 The Purrfect Murder Faith Zanetti Thriller #5. Faith Zanetti, 368pp Pb $17.95 banking war correspondent and now a mother, is Mrs Murphy #16. Mrs Carla Paulson is sleeping with a Russian who lives on the one of the diamond-encrusted set that canine detectives seedy side of ex-pat . When he has descended on Crozet. She’s clerical gets poisoned and suspects the Russian determined to make her new house the security services of targeting him, Faith envy of all and she’s hired architect cosy/malice domestic is sucked into a drama that transports Tazio Chappers to build it. Then Mrs her to the swelter of Cairo and into a Paulson is found stabbed to death at a culinary/food breathtaking and terrifying world she fundraiser with Harry’s friend, Tazio, barely knew existed. Due Feb (English) standing over her, holding the knife. fbi Karna Small BODMAN Now Harry must solve what seems to Gambit 384pp Pb $18.95 everyone else an open and shut case. Due feline detectives American planes are being shot out Feb (American) of the sky and no one knows how or Sandra BROWN forensic why. Dr Cameron Talbot, am expert on Smoke Screen 416pp Pb $19.99 missile defence systems, believes that a Five years ago a fire horse racing mystery new stealth technology is being used. gutted the police The White House orders her to protect headquarters. Seven Journalists America’s airways, placing her in people died but thanks jeopardy as she finds herself stalked by to four brave men, medical nameless assassins. As she races against most were rescued. time to develop a defence against the Forever after they military mystery weapon, she comes to suspect would be known to the that the downed planes are only the world as heroes. Now, native american opening gambit in an ambitious one of them has called campaign of conquest that could change Britt Shelley, a hotshot the world’s balance of power forever. newswoman, offering her the scoop of political/legal Due Feb (American) her career and asks her to meet him. The Andrew BRITTON next morning she wakes up naked in his psychological The Invisible 448pp Pb $16.95 bed to find him lying beside her, dead. Ryan Kealey #3. Tensions between She remembers nothing of the evening private eye Pakistan and India are at an all time high. before but the police don’t believe her. As As the conflict escalates, the US Secretary the finger of blame points to her, she romantic suspense of State’s motorcade is ambushed on the realises that she is the next intended outskirts of Islamabad. Seven diplomatic victim. Due Feb (American) sport security agents are killed and the Secretary of State has vanished. In the spy wake of the attack, CIA agent Ryan Kealey’s operation goes into high gear suspense/thriller and Naomi Kharmai, is on his team again. But Kharmai is becoming increasingly Pb = Paperback unpredictable and as they work their way Tp = Trade Paperback toward the target, it becomes clear to (slightly larger) Kealey that anyone is fair game, and no Hb = Hardback one can be trusted. Due Feb (English) AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Robert Gregory BROWNE Duncan CAMPBELL Robert CLARK Whisper in the Dark The Paradise Trail 438pp Pb $23.00 Mr White’s Confession 368pp Pb $18.95 Calcutta 1971. A city in black out as 341pp Pb $23.00 Naked. Incoherent. Covered with blood. India declares war on Pakistan. Even so, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. On a hillside, That’s how Detective Frank Blackburn backpackers who end up in the Lux the body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl finds a beautiful Jane Doe brandishing a Hotel are determined to have a good is found. Assigned to the case is Police pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal time, until two mysterious deaths Lieutenant Wesley Horner, a man with murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she amongst them change their lives forever. his own demons. He soon narrows his the only eyewitness to the handiwork of Is it possible that one of them is behind sights on Herbert White, a hobby Vincent Van Gogh, a twisted serial killer? the deaths? And why will it take more photographer with a fondness for To find out, Blackburn takes her to than three decades and three continents snapping suggestive photographs. White psychiatrist Dr Michael Tolan. But Tolan to find out? (English) is also a man with no memory, who has problems of his own. One year ago, Karen CAMPBELL must record his life in detailed journal his wife Abby was savagely slaughtered The Twilight Time entries and scrapbooks. For every by the very same serial killer. Now Jane 352pp Pb $22.99 interrogation Horner has, Herbert White Doe is saying things that only Abby could Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the has few answers, pushing the murder know. It’s up to Frank Blackburn to find Flexi Unit. On her first day she discovers investigation into unknown territory and the connection between Jane, Tolan and she’ll be working with her ex, Jamie. In illuminating the complex relationship Vincent before the killer strikes again. at the deep end emotionally, she’s also between truth and fiction, past and Due Feb (American) plunged headlong into the Galsgow’s present, faith and memory. (American) Michael BYRNES violent underworld. Cath Worth, Jamie’s Mary Higgins CLARK The Sacred Blood 416pp Pb $29.95 wife, watches jealously from the Where Are You Now? A group of sidelines, having given up police work to 384pp Pb $19.95 archaeologists in the raise their child. Anna’s life could have It has been 10 years since 21-year-old Judean desert been hers, hers could have been Anna’s. Mack went missing. Every year he calls stumble upon a When Cath attempts to get involved in a his mother on her birthday, on his secret room inside a situation she is no longer equipped or birthday and on Mother’s Day. He cave. Its walls are entitled to tackle, the consequences for assures her he is fine, refuses to answer covered in Egyptian both women could be far-reaching. Due her questions and then hangs up. Even hieroglyphs and the Feb (Scottish) the death of his father does not bring him curious image of a Kate CARLISLE home. Mack’s sister, Caroline, has now dolphin wrapped Homicide in Hardcover endured two family tragedies. around a trident. 304pp Pb $16.95 Determined to solve the mystery They discover an old Bibliophile Mystery #1. The streets of San surrounding her brother’s disappearance, clay jar containing an ancient scroll. Francisco would be lined with she sets out to discover the truth. But Meanwhile, a ruthless sect called The hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn with it comes a secret that someone will Sons of Light is planning to turn the Wainwright had her way. And her do anything to protect.. Due Feb world upside down. Their ancient secret mentor wouldn’t be lying in a pool of his (American) safe beneath Egyptian sands, they need own blood on the eve of a celebration for Kate COLLINS the DNA from a human skeleton, 2,000 his latest book restoration. With his final Evil in Carnations years old, stolen from beneath Temple breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic 336pp Pb $16.95 Mount. When they discover that message and gives her a priceless and Flower Shop Mystery #8. Determined to American scientist Charlotte Hennesey supposedly cursed copy of Goethe’s help her roommate Nikki out of her actually shares this DNA, the race begins Faust for safekeeping. Brooklyn finds singles slump Abby Knight encourages to kidnap the girl and prepare for the herself accused of murder and theft her to give speed dating a try. Of course, final battle. Due Feb (American) when she if found kneeling over the Nikki wants the guy at the very bottom of Tom CAIN body. Now she has to read the clues left Abby’s list, Jonas Treat and figures just The Survivor (Aka No Survivors) behind by her mentor if she is going to one date with him couldn’t hurt. But then 544pp Pb $21.95 restore justice... Due Feb (American) Jonas is found dead and evidence points Samuel Carver makes bad accidents Leslie CHARTERIS to Nikki as his killer. To clear Nikki’s happen to worse people. But one of his The Best of the Saint Vol 1 name, Abby enlists the help of her hunky targets has gotten away. Now the world 800pp Pb $25.00 ex-Army Ranger boyfriend, Marco. But faces a new age of conflict driven by Simon Templar, aka the Saint. On the side Marco’s extended family turns Abby’s religious fanaticism. In , the of the law and yet outside it, the Saint hectic life into a disaster zone. With her government have admitted they no lives for adventure. Here he is at his patience seriously wilting and a killer on longer know the whereabouts of 100 ebullient best, spreading terror among the loose. Abby is determined to dig small nukes. In Afghanistan and Kosovo, London’s drug dealers, rescuing a lady herself out of this mess before someone terrorists plot the downfall of their crook from distress and much, much buries her instead... Due Feb (American) enemies. In Texas, a dying billionaire more. Due Feb (English) Susan CONANT plots his own personal Armageddon. Leslie CHARTERIS & Jessica CONANT-PARK When Carver awakes in a Swiss The Best of the Saint Vol 2 Turn Up the Heat sanatorium he discovers that the woman 496pp Pb $25.00 288pp Pb $18.95 he loves has vanished. Carver’s hunt will Exciting, debonair and ever so slightly Gourmet Girl #3. Chloe Carter is helping take him deep into the heart of a disreputable, the Saint is ready to mete her chef boyfriend with his new conspiracy in which the lives of millions out justice in a way that only he can. restaurant on Boston’s posh Newbury are at stake. As the clock ticks down to These adventures take him all over the Street, when a crabby waitress is found doomsday, who will survive the final, world. Sir Roger Moore, star of the Sixties dead in a fish truck. Was this a prank explosive conflagration? Due Feb TV series, introduces this collection of gone awry? Or did somebody want her to (English) post war stories. Due Feb (English) sleep with the fishes? Due Feb (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Beverly CONNOR Ted DEKKER Robert FERRIGNO Scattered Graves Adam 384pp Pb $22.99 Sins of the Assassin 368pp Pb $18.95 In the mind of FBI behavioural 480pp Pb $18.95 Diane Fallon Forensic psychologist Daniel Clark, there is no Assassin #2. The year is 2043. Nuclear Investigation #6. Local Good and no Evil. All that possesses him bombs have levelled New York and politics get nasty when is the pursuit of the serial killer known as Washington, DC. The no Rosewood, Georgia, ‘Eve’. A pursuit that will lead Daniel to longer exists. To the west stretches the elects a new mayor and his own death. But he is miraculously Islamic Republic. To the east and south Diane Fallon is resuscitated 21 minutes after flatlining lies the Christian Bible Belt. What replaced with an and it soon becomes clear that the only stability exists is threatened when the incompetent crony as way to stop Eve is to recover those president of the Islamic Republic head of the crime lab. missing minutes by dying again. Soon he discovers that a Bible Belt warlord is But just as she’s will find himself re-evaluating everything searching for a super weapon hidden adjusting to life he ever believed. Due Feb (American) inside a remote mountain by the old without murder, the newly appointed William DIETRICH United States regime. Rakkim Epps, is chief of police and the mayor are shot The Rosetta Key 384pp Pb $18.95 sent to steal or destroy the weapon. dead. Back on the job, Diane realises that Ethan Gage #2. A scroll of wisdom Meanwhile a rich Muslim fanatic, who no one is safe, least of all her. Due Feb may have been carried by the Jews to seeks to rule both American nations, (American) some 3,000 years ago and whoever realises Rakkim must be stopped, Robert CRAIS holds it will have the power to dominate controlled, or killed. Due Feb (American) Chasing Darkness the world. Napoleon’s henchmen seize Joanna FLUKE 400pp Pb $23.00 the Book of Thoth from Gage in Syria and Carrot Cake Murder Elvis Cole #11. The hills of LA are upon his return to Bonaparte 352pp Pb $16.95 burning. As the Police evacuate the seizes power in a coup using a hurried Hannah Swensen #10 At her business inhabitants, they find the corpse of a translation of key passages to bewitch the partner’s family reunion, a long lost recluse who apparently committed French Assembly into approving his uncle makes a surprise appearance and suicide. Clutched in his lap is a photo accession. Gage wrests the book back is immediately the hit of the reunion. album containing photographs of seven before Bonaparte can use its powers to He’s almost as popular as Hannah’s young women who have been murdered. assure his conquest of the world. It’s then scrumptious carrot cake. The next Taken only moments after the women off to America. Where will Gage go from morning Hannah finds Gus’ corpse with were killed, they could only have been here? Due Feb (American) an ice pick jutting out of his chest. Now taken by the killer. LAPD homicide Kate ELLIS Hannah’s got to sift through a long list detectives had never connected the seven Seeking the Dead of suspects to find a killer, even if it murders, but with this discovery there is 336pp Pb $20.00 could mean a recipe for her own now a link. Only one suspect had been Joe Plantagenet #1. A demise... Due Feb (American) charged in any of those cases but, with killer, who binds and G M FORD evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, he asphyxiates his victims Nameless Night (AKA Identity) walked free. That suspect was the suicide before leaving their 352pp Pb $18.95 discovered in the fire and now the police naked bodies in Paul Hardy has spent the past seven are out for Cole... Due Feb (American) churchyards, is on the years living in a group home for disabled Neil CROSS prowl. Carmel adults, his identity and his past seemingly Burial 304pp Pb $29.95 Hennessy is paired lost forever. Then, after a car accident, he Nathan has never been able to forget with DI Joe awakens with his face reconstructed and the worst night of his life, the party that Plantagenet, who, his mind shadowy with memory. With led to the shocking death of a young faces the unenviable only a name and a vaguely remembered woman. Only he and Bob, an old task of identifying the killer before he scene to guide him, he goes on a quest to acquaintance, know what really claims another victim. The victims appear find out who he really is. But his search happened. But one rainy night, years to have nothing in common but the makes a lot of people uncomfortable, later, Bob appears at Nathan’s door with manner of their deaths, but as Joe’s from the DA’s office to the highest levels terrifying news and old wounds are investigations forces him to consider that of government. Paul finds himself at the suddenly reopened, threatening to tear the case may have occult connections. centre of a government cover up that has Nathan’s whole world apart. Because Due Feb (English) claimed too many innocent lives. Due Feb Nathan has his own secrets now. And Hans FALLADA (American) Bob doesn’t realise just how far Nathan Alone in Berlin 576pp Hb $49.95 will go to protect them.. Due Feb (English) It is Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled Black Butterfly 204pp Tp $29.95 Jeffrey DEAVER with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Lucifer Box #3. With Queen Elizabeth The Broken Window Strasse, its various occupants try to live newly established on her throne, the now 528pp Pb $20.00 under Nazi rule in their different ways. elderly secret agent Lucifer Box is Lincoln Rhyme #8. Rhyme’s cousin has Working class couple Otto and Anna reaching the end of his scandalous career. been arrested for murder. The evidence Quangel receive news that their son has Despite his approaching retirement, clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees been killed fighting in France. Otto is events leave Box unable to resist to check things out. It turns out that the provoked into an action and begins to investigating one last case. Why have cousin along with other people, has been drop hundreds of anonymous postcards pillars of the Establishment started dying wrongly convicted because the true killer attacking Hitler all over the city. If they in bizarre accidents? Who are the pay knows every single detail about the lives are caught, they will be executed. The masters of assassin Kingdom Kum and of the victims he kills and the men he sets cards come to the attention of the who or what is the mysterious Black up to take the fall for those crimes. Due ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich Butterfly? Can Lucifer Box save the day Feb (American) and a deadly game of cat and mouse before the dying of the light? (American) develops. Due Feb (German)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Elizabeth GEORGE Ian GRANT Andrew GREIG Careless in Red Death Between the Lines Romanno Bridge 307pp Pb $22.95 576pp Pb $24.99 196pp Pb $19.95 A motorcyclist with a stolen ring finds Inspector Lynley #14. Thomas Lynley is Within 20 minutes, three folders arrived a quiet place to die. A woman with an determined to walk the length of the on his desk. Pymble stared at their eventful past has signed the Official South West Coast of Cornwall to distract labels: Riley. Homicide 27.4.1928. Secrets Act. A man with a long blade in a himself from the death of his wife. On Inquiries suspended August 1928. Case tan holster under his suit has taken a the 43 days of this walk, he sees a cliff Open. Donniker. Homicide 4.10.1924. commission to retrieve an object that climber fall to his death. Shortly Inquiries suspended May 1925. Case might not exist. The hunt for the afterwards, he encounters a young Open. McPhipps. Homicide 11.6.1927. crowning stone of the Dalriadic kings, the woman whose personal history is a Inquiries suspended December 1927. Stone of Scone, worth enough to make life blank before her 30th year. These events Reopened May 1928. Suspended July cheap for some and dear to others, has propel him into a case that brings 1928. Looking inside the covers, he begun. (Scottish) Barbara Havers from London and noticed that a different inspector John GRISHAM thrusts both detectives into a world handled each case. No link had ever The Associate 384pp Hb $49.95 where revenge is only one of the motives been made among the three. Leaning Kyle McAvoy is one of the they must sift through to identify a back on his chair, Pymble reached for the outstanding legal students of his killer. Due Feb (American) file marked Riley and began to read... generation, but he has a secret from his Mark GIMENEZ (Australian) past that threatens to destroy his The Perk 512pp Pb $19.99 Alex GRAY fledgling career. That secret catches up Beck Hardin returns to his Texas Pitch Black 448pp Pb $20.00 with him in the form of some bad men hometown after the death of his wife Lorimer and with a compromising video. Kyle must leaves him with two children to raise. Brightman #5. When do as they tell him, or the video will be The town is reeling from the murder of Kelvin FC’s new made public. He is to take a job as an 16-year-old Heidi, whose father asks midfielder is found associate at the largest law firm in the Beck to help him find her killer. stabbed to death and his world. But he will be passing on the Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into wife is apprehended secrets of the company’s biggest trial, a becoming town Judge and he makes trying to leave the dispute between two defence contractors some powerful enemies amongst the rich country, a seemingly worth billions. Now Kyle is caught white landowners when he refuses to straightforward new between the forces manipulating him condone their treatment of the Mexican case begins. But with and the FBI, who would love to unmask workers of the town. As events escalate, the murder of a referee after a Kelvin the conspiracy… Due Feb (American) the landowners carefully plot their match and when the latest signing to the Rosemary HARRIS revenge...Due Feb (American) club becomes the latest victim in a string Pushing Up Daisies Lee GOLDBERG of killings, Lorimer knows there’s a serial 320pp Pb $16.95 Mr Monk Goes to killer on the loose, one that’s only Dirty Business Mystery #1. Meet Paula 275pp Pb $18.95 beginning to show his true colours. Due Holliday who trades her stilettos for Adrian Monk is on a roll solving Feb (Scottish) garden clogs when she makes the move murders as fast as they come. But when Ginna GRAY to the suburbs to start a gardening his therapist, Dr Kroger, leaves for The Prime Objective business. Paula can handle slugs and the Germany, Monk can’t tie his shoes, 384pp Pb $16.95 occasional “human” pest but she’s not forgets how to swallow and loses track When Kate Mahaffey receives a prepared for the body she finds while of his blinking. Desperate, he follows Dr hysterical phone call from her sister restoring the gardens at a local Kroger to Germany where he sees a man Colleen - a plea to run, hide and not to landmark. Things turns serious when a with six fingers. The man responsible for contact the police - Kate reaches out to body is impaled on a garden tool and his wife’s death, or was it just his the one man who can help, her ex- one of Paula’s friends is arrested for the imagination? (American) husband, CIA operative Jackson Prime. crime. Aided by an aging rocker, a Margaret GRACE Jack may have signed papers, former colleague and a sexy Mexican Malice in Miniature but his heart still belongs to Kate. He’ll labourer, Paula digs for the truth and 304pp Pb $16.95 do anything to keep her safe. Dodging unearths dirty business the town has Miniature Mystery #3. Miniaturist hit men and bullets, they must track kept buried for years... Due Feb (English) Geraldine’s nephew arrests a local for down Colleen before their mission Joan HESS murdering her boyfriend. Enlisted to help changes from run and hide to turn and Mummy Dearest find the real culprit, Gerry comes upon fight. Due Feb (American) 336pp Pb $16.95 criminal artists who wish she’d mind her Andrew GREELEY Claire Malloy #17. Claire Malloy and own tiny business. Due Feb (American) Irish Tiger 336pp Pb $18.95 Peter Rosen are on their honeymoon in Nuala McGrail #11. Problem solver Luxor, with her daughter Caron, and her Nuala Anne McGrail comes to the aid of best friend Inez. Claire is intent on a John Patrick Donlan and Maria Angelica quiet, uneventful stay involving Connors, both grandparents when they shopping, and tourist sites. But despite met, and their passionate connection her determined efforts to avoid trouble, took them by surprise. But Dolan’s the tenor of the trip quickly switches family opposes the match and someone from sleepy to creepy. First, Caron and will stop at nothing to destroy their Inez are chased through darkened alleys marriage, and maybe even their lives. It by persons unknown. Then a recent may be up to one gifted woman and a acquaintance is kidnapped by two young pair of retired police dogs to prevent a men on horseback. Something is clearly love story from ending in unspeakable afoot and now Claire will stop at nothing tragedy. Due Feb (American) to find out what. Due Feb (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Tobias HILL Quintin JARDINE Jayne Ann KRENTZ The Hidden 368pp Pb $32.95 Aftershock 544pp Pb $20.00 Running Hot 352pp Pb $32.99 In Sparta, southern , a close Bob Skinner #18. It’s the second Arcane Society #5. Grace Renquist knit group search for the buried traces of week of July Trades Holiday in has been hired as an aura reading an ancient power. Ben Mercer finds Edinburgh when Deputy Chief consultant in the quest for a murder himself drawn to them, the double Constable Bob Skinner gets a call suspect, but has zero field experience. edged friendship of Jason, the unsettling informing them that the body of a young Her bodyguard, Luther Malone isn’t beauty of the women, Natsuko and woman has been found on a golf course. good with a gun. So the last thing they Eleschen, and the menace of Max and The body has been ‘composed’, just like expect is for romantic sparks to fly Eberhard, who idealise the extremes of the bodies of three other young women between them. When rogue operatives the ancient Spartans. Ben wins his way in a previous case. Could it be the work for an underground group pour into the into the circle, but there is more to the of a copycat killer? The murder victim is resort Grace recognises the dark spikes group than he understands and he finds an art teacher whose ex-boyfriend is a in their auras. The criminals in their out too late that some things should policeman with a reputation as a serious midst aren’t just high level sensitives, remain hidden. He must decide where womaniser. Due Feb (Scottish) they’ve enhanced their talent with a his loyalties lie, before the decision is Chris JORDAN potent drug. And as Grace knows, if you taken for him. Due Feb (English) Torn 400pp Pb $16.95 don’t control your powers, your powers Gwen HUNTER A deranged will control you. Due Feb (American) Rapid Descent man holds over 100 Chris KUZNESKI 384pp Pb $16.95 schoolchildren hostage. The Lost Throne 422pp Pb $32.95 The kayak trip was to be a honeymoon After a long police In the cliffs of central Greece, the for Nell and Joe Stevens, but Nell is swept stand-off, the Metéora monasteries are all but under and loses consciousness. She gymnasium suddenly inaccessible. The Holy Trinity are the awakes on shore, finding a note from Joe, explodes into flames. guardians of a long forgotten secret. One explaining that he has gone for help. He All the students night, warriors carrying ancient weapons never returns. The search that follows escaped except 10- attack, hurling the monks and their raises more questions. About the family year-old Noah Corbin. secret from the cliff top. In Europe, he never mentioned and an enormous Noah’s mother, Haley, academic Richard Byrd has nearly inheritance. And worse, is Nell is frantic. Was her boy killed or did he uncovered the location of one of the responsible? Eventually, she takes to the wander away from the scene? Haley hires Seven Ancient Wonders, the statue of river again in search of the truth and ex-FBI agent Randall Shane because she Zeus and his mighty throne. But his finds that jealousy, desperation and needs the truth, however devastating. But search has also uncovered a conspiracy deception can pull you under faster than she is forced to admit a dark family secret and that some would do anything to churning water and you may never that leads to the Rocky Mountains, where conceal. Due Feb (American) resurface. Due Feb (American) an entire county is owned by a cult, Stieg LARSSON Lisa JACKSON & Nancy BUSH businessmen, government officials, even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Wicked Game 480pp Pb $18.95 the police. Men who have grown rich and 533pp Pb $22.95 20 years ago, Jessie Brentwood powerful in their secrecy. A secrecy they Millennium Trilogy #1. 40 years ago, vanished. Most of Jessie’s friends believed are sworn to protect... Due Feb (American) Harriet Vanger disappeared from a she ran away. Few suspected that Jessie Jose Luis de JUAN family gathering on the island owned by was hiding a shocking secret that brought This Breathing World the powerful Vanger clan. Her uncle is her into the crosshairs of a vicious killer. 231pp Pb $22.95 convinced it was murder and that the 20 years later, a body is unearthed on Two stories are placed in front of one killer is a member of his own family. He school grounds and Jessie’s old friends another like mirrors. The first of this pair employs disgraced financial journalist reunite. Most are sure that the body is of thrillers is set in first century and Mikael Blomkvist and the truculent Jessie’s. But soon, Jessie’s friends begin to relates the rise and fall of Mazuf, a computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to die in freak accidents. Becca Sutcliff has homosexual Syrian scribe and renowned investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s been haunted for years by visions of man of letters who is driven to kill. The disappearance to a number of grotesque Jessie. She senses that an evil force is second is a confession by a present day murders they begin to unravel a dark shadowing her. Is it coincidence or has American named Laurence. We soon find family history. But the Vangers are a Jessie’s killer returned to finish what was out that there is a lot more to his tale as secretive clan and will do almost started years ago? Due Feb (American) Laurence is a murderer too. These anything to protect themselves. (Swedish) Peter JAMES mysteries are constructed as reflections of Pam LEWIS Dead Man’s Footsteps each other enveloping readers in the The Perfect Family 400pp Pb $19.99 stories of the young murderers told 406pp Pb $23.00 Detective Superintendent Roy Grace #4. through their own eyes. (Spanish) When Pony Carteret is found drowned in Abby stepped in the lift and it jerked Philip KERR the waters of Lake Aral her family accepts upwards before plunged sharply A Quiet Flame 448pp Pb $22.95 a verdict of accidental death, but downwards. Amid the mayhem of the Bernard Gunther #5. Bernie arrives something doesn’t seem to fit. How could morning of 9/11, failed Brighton in Buenos Aires and discovers that his Pony, an experienced swimmer, die businessman Ronnie Wilson sees the reputation as a detective goes before him. within feet of their holiday home while chance to disappear and reinvent himself A young girl has been murdered in her toddler son played on the shore? Who in another country. Six years later, the circumstances that resemble Bernie’s final was the man seen arguing with her before discovery of the remains of a woman’s case as a homicide detective with the she died? What had she meant to tell body in a storm drain in Brighton, leads Berlin police, a case he failed to solve. The William, her older brother, whom she had Grace into a desperate race against time chief of police in Buenos Aires thinks the summoned to the house that day? As to save a woman being hunted like an murderer may be an ex Nazi and who William challenges the official version of animal in the streets and alleys of better than Bernie to help him track that events he makes a devastating and very Brighton. Due Feb (English) murderer down? Due Feb (English) personal discovery. (American)

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But prevents an eyewitness named Suzanne across the ages, and adolescence ends fast when her father is Jones from leaving the scene and begins thought lost for over a shot dead in an apparent stickup. The an intense affair with Suzanne. Hood 1,000 years. Historian killer flees, and so ignites an inferno that must choose between his honour and Bernd Rust believes will engulf all the women it touches. A passion. With a killer in relentless pursuit, he can locate mother whose life is shrouded in Suzanne and Hood continue their Excalibur and that the sword is the key darkness, a pregnant outlaw desperate desperate dance around the secrets that to harnessing an incredible source of for a secure life, a family cop atoning for brought them together, unsure whether energy. Nina is sceptical until she and her own family’s collapse and Lucia each new dawn may signal the day their Rust are attacked by mercenaries. Nina herself, caught in the peril and violence lies catch up with them. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Richard North PATTERSON Phil RICKMAN Robert ROTENBERG Eclipse 400pp Pb $32.99 To Dream of the Dead Old City Hall 416pp Pb $32.99 American lawyer, Damon Pierce, 471pp Tp $29.95 74-year-old Mr Gurdial Singh is on his attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West Merrily Watkins #10. The village of newspaper round, looking forward to his African leader of a protest movement, Ledwardine has until now never been daily exchange with Kevin Brace, popular from execution by the country’s corrupt flooded. Only one man feels safe, an radio talk show host on the 12th floor of leader. As the trial, involving terrorism atheist author who has been moved into the luxury Holmes Tower in central and the geopolitics of oil and the whims a secluded house just outside the village. Toronto. 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Attorney Thora murder, minister’s wife Aggie Sloan- rapists. She barely escaped with her life Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his Wilcox seeks divine inspiration to help when her kidnappers panicked and fled. family to find the truth, with the help of clear her name. Due Feb (American) Now Monica is the only one who can ex-policeman Matthew Reich. Their identify the ring’s members and they investigations take them deep into a know where she is. Will Luke and grisly world of torture and witchcraft, as Susannah be able to keep Monica safe and they draw ever closer to a killer gripped crack the ring before the remaining girls by a dangerous obsession. Due Feb disappear forever? Due Feb (American) ()

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Tom Rob SMITH Michael STANLEY Melinda WELLS Child 44 512pp Pb $22.95 A Carrion Death Death Takes the Cake In Stalin’s Soviet Union, crime 555pp Pb $22.99 304pp Pb $18.95 does not exist. The mere suspicion of Detective Kubu #1. Della Cooks Mystery #2. To help boost disloyalty to the State can send an They find the first ratings for her show, Della Carmichael innocent person to his execution. Officer body near a agrees to enter a televised cake Leo Demidov believes he’s building a waterhole considered competition sponsored by Reggi-Mixx, perfect society. But after witnessing the magical by the local even though the company’s owner, interrogation of an innocent man, his bush people. The Regina Davis, is an old college nemesis. loyalty begins to waver. Then the victim was murdered When she finds Regina drowned in a impossible happens. A murderer is on and his identity mixing bowl of batter, Della realises the loose, killing at will. Exiled from hidden. 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The killer, murdered and Narraway needs his most resistance and her mouth sculpted into a disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife trusted man to deal with the strangely meaningful shape, Hazel’s thrust up to the hilt in his victim’s chest investigation. The suspects are narrowed bickering department springs to life. And and escapes through the window of the down to a group of guests meeting with as more bodies are found, Hazel must carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? the Prince of Wales to discuss the confront a clamouring press and the Due Feb (Russian) funding for a huge project. If the town’s rumour mill whilst she edges ever Gyles BRANDRETH murderer isn’t found, the Queen will closer to this terrifying, gruesomely Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death veto royal support for the scheme. Pitt inventive serial killer. 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The that one of their guests that evening Lady Julia returns CIA is offering to clear up the murder must be the murderer. Wilde will need from to Sussex to charge in return for a favour: They want all his powers of deduction and find her father’s estate Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the knowledge of human behaviour before crowded with family trail of a renegade priest who has gone he himself, the 13th name on the list, and friends. Much to missing with millions in church funds. becomes the killer’s next victim. Due Feb her surprise, the one The connection is the priest’s lover, a (English) man she had hoped to woman Ovid knew in his smuggling Susanna GREGORY forget, the compelling days... Due Feb (American) The Butcher of Smithfield Nicholas Brisbane is Anne ZOUROUDI 512pp Pb $25.00 among her father’s The Taint of Midas Chaloner #3. Thomas Chaloner, just houseguests, and he’s not alone. 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When Hermes despatched to investigate. Chaloner has David ROBERTS Diaktoros finds his friend’s battered to untangle the devious means of how No More Dying 258pp Hb $59.95 body, the police make him the prime news is gathered and he has to put his Lord Edwin Corinth and Verity Browne #9. suspect. But there are many who stand to personal safety aside as he tries to It is 1939 and it is clear that Britain will gain from Gabrilis’s death. Hermes penetrate the rumour mill surrounding soon be at war and MI5 has learnt that resolves to avenge his old friend and find the Butcher of Smithfield and discover an assassin has been dispatched to kill the true culprit, but his methods are, as his real identity. Due Feb (English) Winston Churchill. The assassin’s ever, unorthodox. Due Feb (English) Jean-Francois PAROT identity is unknown and Lord Edward, The Phantom of Rue Royale pursuing one line of enquiry, goes to HISTORICAL 342pp Pb $29.95 Cliveden. 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They away from Mma Makutsi. And Charlie Marc Antony and Caesar are at odds, mustn’t know has to deal with a young lady with a Cicero is making a fool of himself and he’s gone, they baby who she claims is his responsibility. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia, having fallen mustn’t know Is all this enough to unsettle Mma under the spell of an Etruscan there’s been a Ramotswe? Certainly not! Due Feb soothsayer, is convinced of a plot on her leak.” The missing man is Harting, from (Scottish) husband’s life. Murder and intrigue the British Embassy in Bonn. The again draw Gordianus into the vortex of missing files, 43, all Confidential or CRIME history. (American) above. London’s security officer Alan Donald THOMAS Turner is sent to Bonn to find the NON-FICTION The Execution of Sherlock Holmes missing man and files as Germany’s and Other New Adventures of the past, present and future threaten to Rose CIOTTA Great Detective 351pp Tp $34.00 collide in a nightmare of violence. 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(English) their vital operations and their best and in December networks. The mole is one of their own 2006, after years of CRIME kind. But which one? Due Feb (English) alleged psychological John LE CARRÉ abuse, she was finally AUDIO (read by John LE CARRÉ) ready to leave him. Until she was found Smiley’s People (1979) 3 CDs $40.00 dead in the home she shared with Rafael Patricia CORNWELL Smiley #8. A and their daughter. Rafael claimed that Scarpetta phone call that Ellen was the victim of a fatal intrusion. (read by Mary Stuart MASTERTON) dragged George Now a high stakes showdown is about 5 CDs (abridged) $45.00 Smiley from his to begin between local investigators and Kay Scarpetta #16. Kay Scarpetta has been bed was a plea to one of the academic world’s greatest asked by the NYPD to examine an return to active masterminds... Due Feb (American) injured psychiatric patient. The patient, service, but only Ian FERGUSON Oscar Bane, has asked for her and the to bury the case, Gangland: Crimes That Shocked story he has to tell turns out to be one of not to solve it. An old acquaintance shot 273pp Pb $25.00 the most bizarre she has ever heard. He dead on Hampstead Heath, an old Following the lives of underworld says his injuries were sustained during a woman in Paris promised the return of a figures like Tony Mokbel, Carl Williams murder that he did not commit. Is Bane daughter she’ll never see, a photograph and the Moran family, this gripping true criminally insane or is his paranoid tale taken in a Hamburg brothel and George crime book will have you enthralled true? The only thing Scarpetta knows for Smiley is called out of retirement. Due with every gritty truth and ruthless fact. certain is that a woman has been Feb (English) (Australian) tortured and murdered and that more violent deaths will follow. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 Karen KISSANE Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage 400pp Pb $25.00 Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle class Australian couple with everything until Julie walked out of their seemingly perfect marriage. And then, one day, he killed her. Jamie confessed to the killing but declared that he had been provoked and therefore was not guilty of murder. Jamie’s defence was successful and he is now serving a prison sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. Julie had no voice in court and no way of telling her story. This is her story… Due Feb (Australian) Evan McHUGH Red Centre, Dark Heart 320pp Pb $19.95 The worst aspects of human nature reveal themselves in the red centre. Beginning with the chilling tale of convict and cannibal Alexander Pearce, this explores historic and recent true crime in the outback, including the Belango State Forest murders and the disappearance of Peter Falconio. Read these stories and you’ll discover that Australia’s dark heart is frighteningly close to home. Due Feb (Australian) M William PHELPS Deadly Secrets 352pp Pb $16.95 In upstate New York Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down. The police immediately suspected Susan Fassett’s husband. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Susan Fassett had been living a secret life, entangled in a passionate web of dominance, lesbian sex and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a shocking trial exposed the whole sordid truth... Due Feb (American) Ask for an Abbey’s Card so your purchases earn you John SILVESTER & A RULE Reward Dollars, which can be used to purchase any Underbelly: Tale of Two Cities 320pp Pb $24.99 items from us and are issued every 6 months: The makers of Underbelly turn to an era when Sydney rivalled Melbourne as the crime capital of the Pacific. Sydney was Sin City, a town on the take for people on the make. From King’s Cross to the sport of kings, from back street brothels to plush private casinos, high rollers rubbed shoulders with low life. Due Feb (Australian) Edward SOUNES Heist: The True Story of the World’s Biggest Cash Robbery 592pp Pb $24.95 On 22 February 2006, 53 million pounds was stolen from a cash warehouse belonging to the Securitas company in Tonbridge, Kent. It was carried out by an unlikely crew of players that included a used car salesman, two Albanian casual workers and a roofer. Five men were convicted in January 2008, which attracted nationwide media coverage. Due Feb (British)

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