“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #223 August 2004 Meet the author ALSO BY KARIN SLAUGHTER... Karin Slaughter Thurs 26 August 6pm - 7pm Blindsighted... Light refreshments will be served (Pb 19.95)

NOMINATED for the Barry Award for Best First Novel and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel. SHORTLISTED for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel of 2001 VOTED one of the best mysteries of the year by the Washington Post, the Florida Sun-Sentinel, Book Sense and Deadly Pleasures magazine.

Kisscut... (Pb 19.95) "A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists… This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime Indelible... fiction on the dark side." by Karin Slaughter (Pb 19.95) - Booklist When medical examiner Sara Linton "With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a mystery writers looking anxiously over their shoulders. trip away from the small town of With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind. This is a Heartsdale -- an escape from all the serious attempt to deal with difficult subject matter, and it pressures which complicate their succeeds brilliantly." relationship -- it should be a - John Connolly straightforward weekend at the beach. But they decide to take a "Karin Slaughter is an impressive new landmark on the detour via Jeffrey's home town and thriller map." things go violently wrong when - Val McDermid Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his house. Jeffrey and Sara are first on the scene and Jeffrey's keen to clear A Faint Cold Fear... his friend's name, but for Sara things (Pb 19.95) aren't so simple. The sear marks around the bullethole don't tally with “Don't read this alone. Don't read this after dark. Robert's story. Robert's wife, Jessie, But do read it” is incoherent and confused. And - Mirror when Jeffrey appears to change the crime scene, Sara no longer knows “Slaughter keeps baring her living characters' psychic who to trust. 12 years later, Sara and wounds in scene after scene with a remarkable intensity Jeffrey are caught up in a shockingly the reigning postmortem specialists, Patricia Cornwell brutal attack which threatens to and Kathy Reichs, can't match.” destroy both their lives. But they're - Kirkus Review not random victims. They've been targeted. And it seems the past is “A gread read - crime fiction at its finest.” catching up with both of them... - Michael Connelly 2 Modern Crime Jonathan AYCLIFFE Mark BILLINGHAM A Garden Lost in Time Lazybones 454pp Pb 19.95 Kathleen ANTRIM 286pp Hb 49.95 Someone, a Capital Offense Cornwall, 1917. After the death of his 385pp Pb 15.95 woman or somebody father, 15-year-old Simon Lysaght is sent pretending to be a This is a political thriller about to live with his uncle, Sir David woman, is writing to an ambitious First Lady caught Trevelyan, at their estate house, convicted rapists in in a web of murder and deceit. Is Trevelyan Priors. On his first day, he prison, befriending she plotting to overthrow the President? discovers there have been a number of them and then This seems inconceivable to journalist family suicides and his cousin William, brutally killing them Jack Ridley. (American) who is crippled and bed-ridden, warns when they are Jake ARNOTT him never to wander the corridors after released. DI Tom Truecrime 338pp Pb 20.95 dark. (Irish) Thorne must It is 30 years since Mary Lynn BAXTER discover the link between these killings Harry Starks and his Without You 376pp Pb 14.95 and a murder/suicide that took place 25 gang kept the Jackson Cole is shocked when he years before. (English) underworld of Soho hears a troubled friend has been found Ethan BLACK under control, but murdered in a New Orleans hotel room Dead for Life 373pp Pb 17.95 the consequences of and he is the prime suspect in her death. Ethan Black delivers another their brutal reign are Divorce attorney Hallie Hunter can lightning-paced, darkly compelling novel still being felt. hardly keep her composure when Jackson of suspense featuring NYPD detective Moving his focus to walks through her door, begging her to Conrad Voort, in which a tragic error the greedy 1980s and represent him. It can mean only one from the past holds the key to stopping the 1990s rave scene, thing; she will have to spend time alone an oddly sympathetic killer bent on the Arnott delivers another hard-edged with the man who once violated her trust worst kind of revenge. (American) novel. (English) and the only man she has ever loved. Giles BLUNT (American) The Delicate Storm KEY Greg BEAR 466pp Pb 18.95 academic Dead Lines 295pp Tp 29.95 A freak warm front, rolling north all the Peter Russell lost a daughter to a way from Texas, slips across the Great banking serial killer. Now he gets by as Mr Fixit Lakes and covers Ontario. In a matter of for a film millionaire who invests in a hours, the entire population of Algonquin canine detectives new kind of phone. The problem with the Bay has emerged to stroll in the streets in Trans is you can also talk to the dead, spring jackets. But the warm front brings clerical though that was not part of the design with it a dense blanket of fog and a spec. A cascade of transgression and sudden increase in the murder rate. A cosy/malice domestic murder is unleashed as sales of the Trans stylish and atmospheric thriller featuring take off. Harried near to death by his detectives Cardinal and Delorme. culinary/food murdered child, Russell must find out (Canadian) who killed her. (American) C J BOX fbi M C BEATON Winterkill 338pp Pb 15.95 Death of a Cad (1987) Game Warden Joe Pickett’s feline detectives 214pp Pb 15.95 pursuit of a killer through the rugged A Hamish Macbeth mystery. Following a mountains of Wyoming takes a forensic society party, one of the guests, boorish horrifying turn when his beloved foster cad Captain Bartlett, has the bad manners daughter is kidnapped. Now, it really is horse racing mystery to be murdered on a grouse hunt. The personal. (American) medical titled party guests are the prime suspects. Kathy BRANDT And a second shocking murder is the last Dark Water Dive 263pp Pb military straw. Hamish Macbeth tracks the 13.95 murderer, as he woos the lovely Priscilla. An underwater investigation. Homicide native american (English) detective Hannah Sampson has traded Ted BELL the Colorado Rockies for the sunnier police procedural Hawke 582pp Pb 17.95 climes of the British Virgin Islands. But a A highly murdered tourist and colleagues eager to political/legal experimental stealth sink her career, have left Hannah submarine, built by the navigating the stormy waters of betrayal, psychological Soviets just before the greed and murder as cold as the deep end of the Cold War, is blue sea. (American) private eye missing. She carries 40 nuclear warheads and romantic suspense is believed to be in the ORDER ONLINE... hands of a very sport unstable government just 90 miles from the spy US mainland. Hawke is in a race against time. (American) suspense/thriller AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Kirsty BROOKS Carol Higgins CLARK Patricia CORNWELL The Vodka Dialogue Popped 337pp Pb 15.95 Blow Fly 465pp Tp 29.95 409pp Pb 19.95 LA-based PI Regan Reilly heads to The new Scarpetta novel. When the Cassidy Blair, 29 years old and addicted Las Vegas to help out her old school architect of Kay’s changed fortunes to pot noodles, is making little progress chum, Danny Madley who is producing a contacts her from his cell on death row convincing customers at DVD World that reality TV show when accidents start (deformed, blinded by Scarpetta’s own John Hughes’ movies are better than happening on the set. From the kitschy actions, incarcerated in Texas strongest recreational drugs. But when she helps a glamour of the Las Vegas casinos and prison), Jean- Baptiste Chardonne still colleague spy on a wayward fiancé, and run-down hotels of the Strip, to the has the ability to terrify. (American) gets paid rather well for her trouble, Cass world-famous Albuquerque Hot Air Clive CUSSLER realises she has the perfect credentials for Balloon Fiesta, this is a funny, fast-paced White Death 509pp Pb 19.95 any PI; she is tense, cynical and slightly romp! (American) Numa Files #2. A Kurt Austin grouchy. Plus she owes the VISA Mary Jane CLARK adventure. When a confrontation between company a lot of cash. Assisted by the Nowhere to Run355pp Pb 15.95 a radical environmentalist group and a handy skills of her friends and her Botulism, Danish cruiser erupts, Austin is forced to favourite cocktail, the Vodka Dialogue, anthrax, small pox and rescue a ship full of trapped men. Cass manages to follow the trail and plague: as medical However, after investigation, he escape from more embarrassing incidents producer for discovers that something far more than she has ever known in her life. All television’s highly- sinister is at work. (American) this from a girl who has been drunk on rated morning news Jeffrey DEAVER Wheel of Fortune! (Australian) program, Key to Garden of Beasts 401pp Hb 45.00 Larry BROOKS America, Annabelle With Prohibition over and the gang Bait and Switch 392pp Pb 17.95 Murphy makes her wars associated with it coming to an end, Meet Wolfgang Schmitt: former living explaining Paul Schumann is finding less and less model, newly single, habitual wise-ass. horrific conditions to work as a hit man. He is taken to meet an Billionaire Nelson Scott wants Schmitt to the nation. So when a colleague dies with official in Army Intelligence and given a seduce his wife, setting off a prenuptial symptoms terrifyingly similar to those of choice: he can spend the rest of his life in clause that will keep her hands off his the latest scourge, Annabelle’s co- jail or he can help his country… He is to money. The job pays a million bucks just workers look to her for assurance. To her, pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic for trying. All he has to do is say yes. But the circumstances of the infections begin team, travel to Berlin and kill a high- in the big leagues of money and power, to suggest that they may be diabolical ranking Nazi close to Hitler. He has been when deals get made, Schmitt happens. murders. (American) picked because he’s a second generation (American) Agatha CHRISTIE German-American and can speak the Steve BROWN Poirot: The Complete Battles of language fluently. Or at least that is what Color Me Guilty 190pp Pb 16.95 Hastings 665pp Tp 35.00 they lead him to believe... (American) A Susan Chase mystery #3. Volume One includes: The Mysterious James ELLROY (editor) Lifeguard and runaway finder Susan Affair at Styles, The Murder on the The Best American Mystery Chase meets her match in a killer who Links, The Big Four and Peril at Eng Stories #3 405pp Tp 35.00 leaves a string of clues and a trail of kids House. (English) This year, bestselling and acclaimed who tell no tales. (American) Ann CLEEVES author, James Ellroy lends his talent to Andrea CAMILLERI Burial of Ghosts the series, offering pieces from the likes of Voice of the Violin 344pp Pb 22.00 Robert B Parker, Joyce Carol Oates and 249pp Tp 25.00 Lizzie had planned her trip to Marrakech Michael Connelly. (American) An Inspector Montalbano mystery #4. The as the perfect escape from her nightmares Earl EMERSON Inspector’s gruesome discovery of a in Northumberland. Morocco is the exotic Into the Inferno 366pp Pb 15.95 naked young woman, suffocated in her paradise she had imagined, especially Repercussions of a freeway crash are bed, immediately sets him on a search for when she has a brief affair with a fellow enormous: six months later, fire fighters her killer. It is a mysterious, reclusive tourist. When Lizzie returns to England, mysteriously succumb to unexplained violinist who holds the key to the murder. she receives a letter from a firm of accidents and ailments. Jim Swope wakes (Italian) solicitors. Philip Samson has died. In his up with the first symptoms of a disease John CHILDRESS will, he has left Lizzie a gift of $30,000. that renders its victims brain-dead within The Beirut Conspiracy (English) a week. Now he has to determine how he 247pp Tp 26.95 Rose CONNORS and his fellow fire fighters have been A suicide bomber has killed over 50 Temporary Insanity poisoned and to discover an antidote, if people in Washington DC and the 349pp Pb 15.95 one exists. (American) President lies wounded in the hospital. Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson faces Janet EVANOVICH Dr Matthew Richards, a disbarred and hard questions as DA for Buck To the Nines 372pp Pb 18.95 drunken physician, has just been Hammond. Marty and her partner in love A Stephanie Plum novel. Cousin kidnapped, reported as dead and given a and law, Harry Madigan, are already Vinnie posted bail on Samuel Singh, an full-face transplant! A pawn in a deadly stretched thin when, on the eve of Buck’s illegal immigrant, who goes missing. game of global terrorism, suicide trial, a bleeding woman staggers into What Stephanie uncovers about him is bombers and corrupt government their office. Now Marty has two sinister and leads to a group of killers officials, Matt Richards must delve into seemingly impossible cases. Shocking who give new meaning to the word his past as a student in Beirut to find the revelations bring fear to the Cape and ‘hunter’. (American) answers before his second death becomes devastating twists to Buck’s trial. permanent. (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Geraldine EVANS Kathleen GEORGE Kay HOOPER Dying for You 204pp Hb 49.95 Fallen 387pp Pb 15.95 Sense of Evil 357pp Pb 17.95 A DI Rafferty A dedicated Pittsburgh doctor was Smart, savvy and confident, Isabel novel. To avoid his shot through the heart. A new neighbour may find that the very qualities that mother discovering suddenly moves in to the house next door have kept her alive could turn out to be he had signed up to his widow and begins watching every her undoing because she has entered the with the Made in move she makes. This stranger is world of a cold-blooded monster who Heaven dating fascinated by Elizabeth’s sorrow and he kills without mercy and eludes every agency, Rafferty knows exactly who killed her husband sense but one, the sense of evil. borrowed a false and why. (American) (American) identity. However, Tim GREEN Linda HOWARD the first two women The Fifth Angel 372pp Pb 19.95 Cry No More 368pp Pb 19.95 he dated wound up Jack Ruskin is a mild-mannered and On a sultry murdered. His alter ego, Nigel Blythe, is well-respected lawyer practicing in New afternoon in a small in the frame for the crime. As chief York when his teenage daughter becomes village, Milla Boone suspect, unbeknownst to his colleagues, the victim of a brutal attack by a sexual faces every parent’s Rafferty risks a life sentence. (English) predator. It turns out that her attacker has nightmare. Two Joseph FINDER a long history of sexual crimes and was assailants kidnap her Paranoia 425pp Tp 29.95 allowed back on the streets once he did six-week-old son, Adam Cassidy, a low-level his time in jail. As Ruskin’s rage builds, leaving Milla behind in employee at a high-tech corporation, he is convinced it is time to take matters a pool of blood. A hates his job. When he manipulates the into his own hands. (American) decade later, she pieces system to do something nice for a friend, Gregory HALL together not only her he finds himself charged with a crime. A Sleep and a Forgetting son’s fate but also the fate of countless Corporate Security gives him a choice: go 340pp Pb 18.95 children who have disappeared into an to prison or become a spy in the Catriona is a well-respected academic; elaborate and highly lucrative baby headquarters of their chief competitor, Flora enjoys a rural existence in the smuggling ring. Cautiously, she joins Trion Systems. (American) Cotswolds with her scientist husband forces with James Diaz, a man who is as Frances FYFIELD and teenage daughter. When Catriona untrusting as he is untrustworthy. Seeking Sanctuary receives Flora’s suicide letter, she races to (American) 310pp Pb 19.95 the picturesque village, but there is no Graham HURLEY When Theo Calvert was driven out of body to be found. The sisters have spent Deadlight 421pp Pb 17.95 the family home by his wife’s cloying their adult lives trying to bury what A Joe Faraday novel #4. Freshly piety, he wanted to take his daughters happened in their childhood, but promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team, too, but in the face of the law, the girls’ Catriona must now face a very different DI Faraday is thrown into the deep-end health and his wife’s intransigence, he kind of oblivion before the truth comes with the investigation into the murder of failed. But, if he lost the battle for their out. (English) prison officer Paul Coughlin. Is his death souls in life, he would make amends in Carolyn HART a legacy of a wider, more savage violence death, craftily shaping his will to benefit Engaged to Die 338pp Pb 15.95 from 20 years before? (English) them so long as they did not follow their A Death on Paul JOHNSTON mother’s example. (English) Demand mystery. The Last Red Death Nancy GEARY Annie Darling and her 404pp Pb 18.95 Redemption 420pp Pb 15.95 husband Max are Two businessmen are murdered in After more than 10 years, Frances intrigued when Athens. The trademark piece of olive Pratt returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, wealthy, widowed art wood of IRAKLIS, a Greek terrorist where she spent her childhood summers patron Virginia group, is found with the victims’ bodies. in the home of an aunt and uncle. This Neville announces her Grace Helmer, whose father was beloved childhood retreat is the last place engagement to Jake murdered by IRAKLIS, employs half- Frances expects to find herself in the thick O’Neill, her Greek, half-Scottish Alex Mavros to track of another murder investigation. handsome, charming down her father’s killer. (English) (American) and much younger fiancé, at a gala William JOHNSTONE Elizabeth GEORGE opening at the Neville Gallery. Virginia’s Code Name Extreme Prejudice A Place of Hiding 632pp Pb 19.95 joyful announcement leaves certain 256pp Pb 13.95 The sudden death of Guy Brouard members of her resentful extended Today, when bomb- after his morning swim shocks the stepfamily quite peeved. And before the throwing madmen rule residents of Guernsey. When a young last champagne bubble pops, murder nations and crime American woman is charged with the disrupts the grand celebration. cartels strangle the murder, Deborah St James persuades her (American) globe, justice demands husband Simon to David HEWSON extreme measures. For accompany her to A Season for the Dead 20 years, ex-CIA agent Guernsey to avert this 473pp Pb 18.95 John Barrone fought miscarriage of justice. Whilst Sara pores over ancient texts in the his country’s dirty What they find on that Vatican reading room, a brutal murder is back-alley wars. Now, beautiful island is a taking place in a nearby church. A crazed he spearheads a secret tangled web of deceit man enters the Vatican, carrying a strike force of elite law enforcement and and betrayal, with its bloodied bag. Soon Sara is linked to a intelligence professionals on a seek-and- origins in wartime series of murders. (English) destroy mission against America’s sworn occupation. (English) enemies. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Judith KELMAN Laura LEVINE Eileen MacDONALD Every Step You Take Last Writes 248pp Pb 13.95 Close to Home 309pp Pb 18.95 374pp Pb 17.95 A Jaine Austen Hugh Eastwood is a rising political Claire Barrow has found a fascinating mystery #2. star. After the birth of their first child, his focus for her latest novel: identity theft. Wisecracking, pen-for- wife Roz returns to work as a high-flying But her invention turns all too real as hire Jaine Austen is magazine editor, leaving Charlie in the Claire begins to recognize that someone is about to discover that care of his new nanny Alice. When systematically stealing her life. Her working on the set of a Charlie dies soon afterwards, Alice nightmare deepens with the stunning Hollywood sitcom is no quickly becomes the chief suspect. news that the courts have released the laughing matter. True, (English) vicious killer her late husband tried to put Muffy ‘n Me is not going Mack MALONEY away for life. (American) to win any Emmys, but Superhawks 344pp Pb 15.95 Toni KELNER for Jaine, being on staff Superhawks, a crack secret op team Wed and Buried302pp Pb 13.95 sure beats writing boring brochures and bound by a single war cry: Remember the A Laura Fleming mystery. Normally, bad resumes. Until the plot thickens, with Twin Towers! Their target is Abdul the words ‘husband’ and ‘Aunt Maggie’ murder. (American) Kazeel, a notorious madman with would have Laura howling, but the Glenville LOVELL connections throughout the Persian Gulf. identity of the groom boggles her mind; Too Beautiful to Die Infamous in the terrorist underworld and Aunt Maggie has gone and married Big 313pp Pb 15.95 top mission planner for Al Qaeda, he is Bill Walters. And now, someone is trying A debut mystery by a highly regarded planning a new attack on America. Only to kill the old coot. Laura does not like the author of literary novels, this is a gritty the Superhawks can enforce world peace idea of her aunt in harm’s way, so with African-American noir with the through any means necessary. baby in tow, she sets out to investigate. atmosphere of Dashiell Hammett and the (American) (American) multicultural appeal of Walter Mosely. Shane MALONEY Gordon KENT Set in New York, it introduces Blades Stiff (1994) 276pp Pb 22.00 Force Protection 441pp Tp 29.95 Overstreet, a black ex-cop, now at odds The Brush-Off (1996) Carrier USS Thomas Jefferson patrols with the NYPD over the incident that 376pp Pb 22.00 the Indian Ocean, while intelligence prompted his resignation: a buy-and-bust Two Murray Whelan novels. These are TV officer Alan Craik flies to Mombassa to operation gone bad when a white cop tie-in editions to celebrate the production assess security. As he arrives in the accidentally shot and nearly killed him. of a major new telemovie starring David Kenyan port, a US Navy support vessel is When Blades stumbles on the murdered Wenham as Murray Whelan. (Australian) blown up at dockside. With a new battle body of an FBI agent, he becomes the Mabel MANEY group heading to the Suez Canal and a target of an FBI/NYPD manhunt. The Girl with the Golden Bouffant massive storm brewing in the Indian (American) 253pp Tp 27.95 Ocean, Alan Craik must act fast. Peter LOVESEY An original Jane Bond (American) The House Sitter parody. When James Jack KERLEY 391pp Pb 19.95 Bond lands in the The Hundredth Man A Peter Diamond mystery. The hospital with nasty 309pp Tp 29.95 identification of the woman found facial burns (the This is a darkly compelling serial-killer murdered on Whiteview Sands poses result of an explosive novel introducing the next big name in more questions than it answers. Emma encounter between a psychological thrillers and, in Carson Tysoe was a respected psychologist and cigarette and his hair Ryder, a fascinating and complex an official criminal profiler with several pomade), the home protagonist set for many books to come. successful cases to her credit. When Peter office once again calls Chasing shadows while their boss Diamond is brought into the on Jane Bond, James’s relentlessly undercuts their progress, investigation he discovers she had been lesbian twin sister (aka 007.5) to don suit, Carson and his partner begin to suspect secretly seconded to work on the profile sneer and scars and masquerade as the that someone close to them is the killer’s of the person who has assassinated one infamous 007. (American) ultimate target. Their only hope of celebrity and is threatening to kill more. Richard MASON catching the murderer lies in apparently (English) Us 336pp Tp 29.95 meaningless ramblings written on Elizabeth LOWELL A group of Oxford students struggle corpses ... and the advice of a twisted The Color of Death to come to terms with a friend’s death. sociopath. (American) 356pp Tp 27.95 This is a poignant and chillingly Jon LAND Katherine Jessica atmospheric novel about bullying and the The Blue Widows Chandler, an up-and- lingering effects of childhood cruelty, 398pp Pb 15.95 coming jewel cutter, about cliques, class and not fitting in. It A Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea novel. has been handed the shows what happens when the most When a raid on a terrorist hideout in opportunity of a charismatic person you know draws you Gaza yields flame-charred pages written lifetime. Arthur into their world and then disappears from in Arabic, Danielle sends the document to McCloud, one of the it. (South African) Ben in Boston for his inspection. foremost collectors of Amanda MATETSKY Shockingly, his translation reveals that gemstones in the Murder is a Girl’s Best Friend the pages are actually a fatwa, a religious world, commissions 306pp Pb 15.95 edict, granting permission to bring about her to cut the Seven A Paige Turner mystery. Spunky 1950s a biblical prophecy known as the End of Sins, seven extraordinarily rare sapphires detective Paige Turner finds herself All Things. (American) worth millions. Kate is sure this job will embroiled in a messy murder mystery do wonders for her reputation in the gem with the killer hot on her heels. world until a murderer strikes and the (American) gems disappear. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Alexander McCALL SMITH Rick MOFINA Ian PATTISON The Full Cupboard of Life Be Mine 344pp Pb 15.95 Sweet and Tender Hooligan 212pp Pb 22.95 San Francisco crime reporter Tom 326pp Pb 22.00 The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Reed has seen a lot of sick messages in his Featuring a brilliant Mma Ramotswe has weighty matters on time, but the one delivered to fellow anti-hero, this her mind. A wealthy lady, whose fortune reporter Molly Wilson is different. It is gangster novel is comes from successful hair-braiding shockingly personal. The crime lab report very violent and salons, has asked Mma to check up on confirms it is written in human blood. very, very funny. several suitors. Are these men just And Molly’s cop boyfriend has just been Arthur Blaney, aka interested in her money? This may be found brutally murdered. (American) The Surgeon, difficult to find out, but Mma Ramotswe Walter MOSLEY travels back to is, of course, a very intuitive lady. Also Fear Itself 339pp Pb 17.95 Glasgow for the includes Chapter One from his next book, Mild-mannered Paris Minton is funeral of his The Sunday Philosophy Club. (Scottish) delivered a pile of trouble when Fearless mother. Blaney has Chandler McGREW Jones shows up with a simple request: been effectively The Darkening 413pp Pb 15.95 help find a beautiful woman’s husband. exiled from his home town for publishing It begins with a blackout. All Lending a hand gets his memoirs: as Scotland’s most electrical power ceases to run. Even the him hogtied, notorious gangster he has used the book sun seems a little dimmer. Cities come to kidnapped, and to settle scores and spill the beans. So a halt and their inhabitants vanish. But a threatened with a what kind of welcome is he prepared for? small, clandestine group of warriors has gun the size of a (Scottish) been preparing for this moment for cannon. Now he is Stuart PAWSON centuries. Their hopes rest on two wondering whom he Laughing Boy 298pp Pb 19.95 strangers, a thousand miles apart, who should fear more: the A DI Charlie Priest mystery. When hold the keys to the world’s salvation: people he is looking Colinette Jones fails to return home and a Lucy and Dylan must stare into the face for or the people he is body turns up half a mile from her house, of something ancient, something working for? DI Charlie Priest knows he has got to impossible, and something that has come (American) make the housecall that every mother to blot out the light, forever. (American) Reggie NADELSON dreads. Elswehere, Laura Heeley is found Eoin McNAMEE Disturbed Earth dead in a country lane, a single stab Resurrection Man (1994) 341pp Tp 29.95 wound the only sign of violence. What 233pp Pb 22.95 The new Artie Cohen mystery. A jogger could connect these two women, apart Even within the conflicts of Ireland’s finds a child’s clothes drenched in blood from their untimely deaths? In a town history, the Shankhill Butchers have a and buried in the half frozen earth near constricted by the foot and mouth very particular notoriety. McNamee’s Brighton Beach on the Atlantic coast of outbreak, Priest must find the killer first novel is a retelling of those most Brooklyn. When another child goes before he strikes again. (English) terrifying of times. It is remarkable for its missing, all the city’s fears and Kate PEPPER poetic evocations of violence, human insecurities are brought to the surface. Five Days in Summer foibles and suffering. The setting is (American) 304pp Pb 15.95 Belfast in the 1980s; the Resurrection Men Jonathan NASAW Before the long drive home from are a gang of four led by Victor Kelly, a 27 Bones 360pp Tp 29.95 vacation, Emily Parker made a quick run Protestant drawn into the sectarian Although officially retired, ex-Special to the grocery store and disappeared. But violence. Victor is a ruthless killer; his Agent Pender cannot ignore a plea for as her husband and a retired FBI profiler MO is the knife across the throat. And it is help from an old friend, especially when scour the Cape for her, Emily’s thoughts McNamee’s ingenious stroke to link this there is an all-expenses paid trip to the are not on her own safety. Kept helpless harsh silencing to a blasted Belfast. (Irish) Caribbean attached. Julian Coffee, St in a madman’s lair, she watches him Eoin McNAMEE Luke’s chief of police, needs Pender’s prepare a five-day countdown, which The Ultras 256pp Tp 29.95 help in tracking down a serial killer will bring him to his real victim - her In 1970s Ireland, the British known as the ‘Machete Man’. (American) seven-year-old son! (American) establishment conducted its struggle with Kevin O’BRIEN Clyde PHILLIPS the IRA in the dirty war. This novel, set Left for Dead 432pp Pb 15.95 Sacrifice 352pp Pb 17.95 around the real-life figure of Captain When Claire When San Francisco’s most Nairac, recreates the intrigue, loyalism Shaw wakes in a beloved philanthropist is and violence of a time when friend could Seattle hospital, she murdered in a downtown hotel, homicide turn foe overnight and nothing was ever remembers detective Jane Candiotti gets the high- quite as it seemed. (Irish) nothing. She does profile case. That same night a homeless Linda Lael MILLER not recognise the man is found stabbed to death at the Don’t Look Now concerned faces of docks. The search for the killers takes 419pp Pb 17.95 her husband and Candiotti and her husband, detective DA Clare Westbrook functions very well friends. She knows Kenny Marks, into two disparate worlds. in crisis but a shocking crime, the murder only that she is Soon an eerie intrigue settles over the of her notoriously unethical boss, is about lucky to be alive, cases as the detectives discover that the to test her heart and soul because heading the single death of someone so privileged strangely the homicide investigation is irresistibly surviving victim of intersects with the life of someone so sexy detective Tony Sonterra. Now, a vicious serial killer. She was a mistake disenfranchised. (American) passion pulls Clare into the crosshairs of but next time there would be no escape a deadly mystery from the past. and her eyes would fill with that perfect, (American) beautiful terror. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Henry PORTER Stella RIMINGTON Chris RYAN Empire State 455pp Pb 18.95 At Risk 394pp Tp 29.95 Greed 391pp Pb 19.95 The head of the US National Security An ‘invisible’ is CIA speak for the Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning Agency is assassinated in a spectacular ultimate intelligence nightmare: the is down on his luck and owes half a set piece killing at Heathrow. An airport terrorist who, because he or she is an million pounds. Then he is offered a employee and his family are found ethnic native of the target country, can lifeline; to steal US$10m from al-Qaeda, murdered in their council house in cross its borders unchecked, move sanctioned by MI5. But a silent, expert Uxbridge. In New York, a fashionable around that country unquestioned and assassin is stalking his team, gruesomely Upper East Side osteopath receives two infiltrate its institutions with ease. An murdering both them and their families. postcards showing the Empire State invisible on mainland Britain was the And Matt knows he is next. (English) Building. A group of migrant workers are worst possible news. For Liz Carlyle, an Chris RYAN brutally gunned down in Macedonia. The MI5 intelligence officer, this report from The Increment 358pp Tp 32.95 quest to find the link between these MI6 marks the start of an operation, It is a long, hot summer and the apparently random events is pursued by which will test her to the limit and put her country is suffering an epidemic of road Robert Harland. (English) own life in jeopardy. In this terrifying and rage. What is not making the news Ian RANKIN tautly drawn debut thriller, Stella headlines, though, is that the SAS’s secret Rebus: Capital Crimes Rimington takes us to the heart of the assassination squad, the Increment, is 1016pp Hb 49.95 Intelligence world, a place she is uniquely killing ex-soldiers. 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Blandly recounting a around questions about mercy and about the crime and the real killer’s history of dangerous sexual encounters, human suffering, Ben pursues a tangle of identity. But this case is not the only Gibbs stuns Alan with another revelation: motives and old mysteries (euthanasia, mystery keeping Jimmy up at night. The she thinks there are other victims and that arson, poaching and jealousy) between shadowy world he inhabits is full of her husband will kill again. Struggling two great island families. (American) secrets, shared by a few restless roamers with a strict confidentiality agreement, who call themselves Sailors. Jimmy Miles Alan walks a perilous ethical line by is one of them. And he is about to discover revealing just enough to interest his the truth about himself. And for a Sailor detective friend Sam Purdy. (American) that can be a frightening thing. (American)

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