“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #229 February 2005 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH Boris Akunin burst onto the English crime world in 2003 with his first mystery, The Winter Queen (Pb 19.95), set in , 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow’s Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case. Brilliant, young and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London in his hunt for the conspirators. 2004 saw the publication of the second volume, Murder on the Leviathan (Pb 19.95). On 15 March 1878, Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his house, together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale is found in the victim’s hand – a badge owned only by the first class ticket holders on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan, the world’s largest steamship. Commissioner Gauche of the French police is called to solve the ‘Crime of the Century’ and narrows the suspects down to ten, who are forced to eat every meal together in the ship’s Windsor Suite. Amongst these ten is the elegant young Erast Fandorin. Can he discover the murderer’s identity before Gauche? Now the third adventure, which is set between the previous two books during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, Turkish Gambit (Tp 29.95), is available. There is a traitor in the Russian camp and our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to resurrect all of his KERRY GREENWOOD dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the REPRINTS path of young love. The re-issues of the earlier Phryne Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Fisher titles will be completed in Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, February and March with the follow- Tolstoy and and, in Russia, his ing reprints: February Blood and Erast Fandorin books have sold over ten million Circuses #5 (Pb 19.95) and The copies. His accomplished writing is a treat, as he Green Mill Murders #6 (Pb 19.95) and in March Murder on the writes with such intelligence and humour, and I can Ballarat Train #3 (Pb 19.95) and heartily recommend the series to you. I, for one, Death at Victoria Dock #4 (Pb can hardly wait another year for the next 19.95). The 15th in the series I instalment, which could be set in Japan. would expect around June this year, but at this stage I have no idea of Peter the title. Peter 2 Modern Crime Donna ANDERS Karen Grigsby BATES Afraid of the Dark Plain Brown Wrapper Paul ADAM 373pp Pb 16.95 368pp Pb 16.95 Flash Point As a single mother struggling to get by in An Alex Powell novel. While attending the 490pp Pb 19.95 a tough neighbourhood, policewoman annual National Association of Black Camerawoman Maggie Walsh Jessie Cline knows she cannot protect her Journalists Conference, columnist Alex travels to McLeod Ganj, home of son from the streets forever. For his sake, Powell turns sleuth when her former the Tibetan government in exile, she takes a job as assistant police chief in publisher, Everett Carson, who was where the Dalai Lama is secretly dying. a small island town off the coast of supposed to receive the Journalist of the Smuggling herself into the compound, Washington state where she lived as a Year Award, is found dead prior to the Maggie films the footage she knows will child. But her search for a safe haven will ceremony. 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Sarah ANDREWS happening: mind games that cross the For once the Chinese Army discover who Earth Colors 368pp Pb 16.95 line between illusion and reality. And not they are looking for, there is no way they Asked to investigate a famed even murder is what it seems. (American) will be allowed to leave Tibet alive. painting that may be a counterfeit, Claudia BISHOP (British) forensic geologist Em Hansen undertakes Buried by Breakfast a journey through several states and 253pp Pb 16.95 discovers that she is on the trail of a A Hemlock Falls mystery. A raucous group murderer when her client begins to suffer is protesting the planned relocation of the KEY the effects of poisoning. (American) local Civil War cemetery, when their academic Marion BABSON leader turns up dead. Now, Meg and The Cat Who Wasn’t a Dog Quill must catch a killer before another banking 206pp Pb 16.95 local VIP is greeted with an untimely RIP. Dame Cecile Savoy’s (American) canine detectives revolting floor mop of a Victoria BLAKE Pekinese has passed Bloodless Shadow clerical away at a ripe old age. 320pp Pb 12.95 Now, the aging British This novel introduces PI Samantha cosy/malice domestic actress convinces her Falconer, a fascinating series character rivals on stage and whose private life is as intriguing as her culinary/food screen, Trixie and cases. Four times world judo champion, Evangeline, to support Sam now runs the Gentle Way fbi her in her hour of grief investigation agency in London. But by accompanying her to when her brother Mark asks her to return feline detectives a taxidermist. But it is a cab ride straight to Oxford to investigate the into a cat-astrope! No sooner do the three disappearance of a young woman, she forensic elderly thespians enter Stuff Yours than finds herself confronting a past she hoped they discover a dead body, a live kitty in she had left behind. Soon she receives a horse racing mystery a cage and flames bursting from the back letter from a man who has been dead for room. Fortunately for a rare Japanese 28 years, her father. (British) medical bobtail called Cho-Cho-San, Trixie grabs Anna BLUNDY the cat before fleeing the scene. Cho-Cho- military Faith Without Doubt San knows more than she is letting on as 282pp Tp 32.95 the curtain goes up on foul play, native american 2003, war-torn Baghdad: Saddam murderous jealousies and a killer who Hussein may be hiding in a hole, but police procedural may be going to the dogs. (American) foreign correspondent Faith Zanetti is Linda BARNES once again at the heart of the action. And political/legal Deep Pockets 320pp Pb 16.95 once again, she is loving it: the heat, the A Carlotta Carlyle mystery. Hired by rush, the danger, and dare she say it, the psychological a respected Harvard professor whose excitement. But there is one bombshell indiscretions with a student are being that even Faith is not prepared for. Green- private eye threatened by a blackmailer, Carlotta eyed weapons inspector Joshua Klein is struggles with her morals to track down powerful, wise and seductive, and he has romantic suspense the blackmailer, a case complicated by a also got the stories Faith needs. Standing suspicious death. (American) under fire with this man, she feels safer sport than she has ever felt before. But in fact, she is in more danger than ever - buffeted spy by passion for a man whose allegiances are as mysterious as he is elusive. (British) suspense/thriller AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB

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When Frozen 310pp Pb 12.95 the holidays as the Rockefeller Centre’s she learns, at the 37th hour, that her When his childhood friend Verity is famous Christmas tree. The folks who husband Shiloh has failed to show up for found at the foot of Beachy Head, barely picked the tree do not have a clue that FBI training in Quantico, Sarah alive, Harry’s life is thrown into turmoil. attached to a branch is a flask, chock-full commences a Missing Persons search. He cannot accept that the happy-go-lucky of priceless diamonds that Packy The search takes her to his family where girl he grew up with would try to kill Noonan, a scam artist just released from she hears of a sister she never knew he herself. He should know. He was closer to prison, had hidden there over 12 years had; to New Mexico, where her than anyone, wasn’t he? As Verity lies ago. 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His pockets have seen more than half a On the eve of her wedding to her (British) million dollars in bribes over the years. veterinarian lover, dog trainer Holly Joanna CARL Some time ago, Robert Waterbury, an Winter becomes caught up in an The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle American novelist, was found shot dead investigation into a serial killer who 227pp Pb 14.95 on Fortunato’s patch, officially a drugs appears to be targeting female dog lovers, A Chocoholic mystery. Hollywood comes to deal gone badly. Corruption seeps from a case complicated by her discovery that Michigan when a film producer decides the city’s every pore in this atmospheric she may next on the killer’s list of to turn a local author’s romance novel thriller, where no one is quite what they potential victims. (American) into a blockbuster. Although the movie claim to be and you pick your heroes Michael CONNELLY (editor) mogul’s chocolate Labrador is charming, from the bad, the very bad and the The Best American Mystery Stories Lee McKinney thinks the producer’s talk indescribably worse. (American) #4 328pp Tp 35.00 is a bunch of sweet nothings and she Barbara COLLEY Michael Connelly says, “The short story grows even more suspicious when she Polished Off 288pp Pb 16.95 deals with issues and themes large and small. stumbles upon a dead body. (American) While But it does it succinctly and quickly. The Massimo CARLOTTO cleaning a wealthy short story is a car for the short track. Put the The Columbian Mule client’s mansion, top down and power into the curves.” This 184pp Pb 12.95 Charlotte LeRue, year’s instalment boasts pulse-quickening When Colombian Arias Cuevas is caught owner of Maid-for- stories from all reaches of the genre. His trying to smuggle drugs through Venice a-Day, finds herself choices include the Prohibition-era tale of airport, his fear is not fuelled by the idea knee deep in a scorned lover’s revenge, a bar owner’s of prison. He is much more frightened of mystery when she gutsy attempt to outwit the mob and a his aunt; it was her coke he stole. The case stumbles upon an tale of murder by psychology. This brings the Alligator (former blues singer, urn containing edition features mystery favourites ex-convict, unlicensed PI) into contact human bones, a Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James with a whole host of devious, double- grisly discovery Crumley and Joyce Carol Oates as well as bluffing characters and pushes him into a that puts a damper on her nephew’s talented up-and-comers, for a diverse position where he may have to cross one wedding plans, especially since his collection sure to thrill all readers. moral line too far. (Italian) fiancée is the prime suspect. (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 John CONNOR Gene DeWEESE John FRANCOME Phoenix 330pp Pb 12.95 Murder in the Blood Back Hander 315pp Tp 32.95 Wonderful debut novel set in 270pp Pb 14.95 Not much is Yorkshire from talented young English A Sheriff Frank Decker mystery. When local going right for jockey lawyer turned crime writer, introducing history teacher Lou Cameron disappears, Alan Morrell. He Detective Constable Karen Sharpe. Decker is puzzled by accusations of cannot get the rides he (British) embezzlement even if they do come from needs and when he David CORBETT wealthy and influential Nathaniel sets up a bloodstock The Devil’s Redhead Wetherston, whose family has owned partnership a tragic 400pp Pb 12.95 half of Farrell County for a century. accident robs him of Dan Abatangelo and Shel Beaudry are Decker’s investigation leads him on a the business and his two ‘for life’ lovers, whose adventures as strange and twisted trail back into the best friend Lee. Now the last of the independent ‘gentleman’ Wetherston family history, where a Alan owes $100,000 marijuana smugglers come to an abrupt century-old murder holds the key to the and his only asset is a racehorse that has end with their arrest in Las Vegas. Dan scandalous secrets lurking in Decker’s yet to be put to the test. But all that fades pleads guilty and receives a 10-year backyard. (American) into insignificance next to the suspicion sentence in exchange for a more lenient Michael DiMERCURIO that Lee’s fatal fall was more than an term for Shel. Released from prison, Shel Emergency Deep accident... (British) struggles to keep her life on track without 464pp Pb 18.95 Yasmine GALENORN Dan’s emotional support. (American) A Middle-Eastern terrorist cabal has Murder Under a Mystic Moon Vena CORK acquired a Soviet submarine so 288pp Pb 14.95 Thorn 340pp Tp 32.95 technically advanced it is able to outrun A Chinz and China mystery. Psychic The Thorns are living a happy family any torpedo or enemy vessel and strike at Emerald O’Briens’s life is complicated life in North West London when a will. With a payload of stolen nuclear enough, with her daughter’s birthday on tragedy changes their lives forever. Rosa missiles, it will enable the terrorists to the horizon and the fall festival in takes a job as a drama teacher in the strike directly at Israel and throw the progress, but when she stumbles upon tough local comprehensive to which her world into chaos. Only one man can the body of her friend Jimbo’s missing 17-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter infiltrate the group, take the helm and pal, a death blamed on a cougar attack, also attend. Then someone begins to stalk stop a holocaust. (American) she realises that there is an all-too-human her daughter and sinister events unfold. G H EPHRON killer stalking prey in the woods Who could be the perpetrator of such Obsessed 306pp Pb 16.95 surrounding the Klickavail Valley malice? Is it the schizophrenic gardener Dr Peter Zak is obsessed with enclave. (American) who tends the park opposite their house? finding the stalker who is terrorising his Meg GARDINER The head teacher is very interested in the new intern Dr Emily Ryan and sets out on Jericho Point 336pp Pb 18.95 attractive Rosa. Then there are her a trail of escalating violence as it leads When a young neighbours… Debut mystery. (British) him into dark and deadly places too close woman tumbles dead Sandy CURTIS to home. Obsessed with isolating a cure onto the beach, the Until Death 339pp Pb 19.95 to a fatal brain disease that could mean police identify the In a war-torn African country, a international recognition and millions of body as Evan Delaney. mercenary slits the throat of a young dollars, researchers will stop at nothing, Except that Evan is native girl. 14 years later and half a world break every rule, use every deviant act very much alive. It is away in Sydney, Libby Daniels staggers (including mutilation and murder) to her identity that has out of bed in her parents’ harbour side achieve their goal. Bent on destroying the been stolen. And the home to see two men crouched over her vicious web of deception, sexual jealousy thief has compromised mother’s battered body. Already in and death that threatens Ryan and the more than just Evan’s shock, she hears them say, ‘Libby killed lives of his patients, Zak must expose the bank account; the thief has been her’. Terrified, she flees to Brisbane, deviant killer even if he has to risk his scamming money from rich Hollywood where she hopes to find help from the own life to do it. (American) wannabes, including a vicious drug boss. grandfather she has not seen for years. G M FORD He wants his money back. From Evan. Brutally mugged on the city streets, she Red Tide 313pp Tp 30.00 Soon she finds herself harassed by drug takes refuge on the doorstep of Conor A Frank Corso novel. Disgraced runners and suspected of murder. Martin, a man with his own horrifying journalist and successful true crime (American) secrets. Distrustful and suspicious, Libby writer Corso finds himself evacuated Paul GARRISON and Conor are wary of each other, until from his friend Meg Dougherty’s first The Ripple Effect past and present collide in a violent attack photographic display when terrorists 420pp Pb 18.95 that forces them to confront their strike the Seattle bus tunnel. As the city Aiden Page wanted only to escape. The enemies. (Australian) grinds to a halt, Corso is determined to CFO of a bank deep in debt and under Patrick DAVIS find a way into the tunnel to discover for investigation by the Department of The Commander (2002) himself what has happened, and what he Justice, Aiden saw his chance and took it, 449pp Pb 16.95 sees is more shocking than he could ever leaving behind his family, his creditors Unfairly passed over for promotion, Air have imagined. Meanwhile Meg, and his persecutors by convincing them Force investigator Burton Webber resigns unaware of the nightmare unfolding of his death. He succeeds in his deception from the service to work with his wife. He across town, suspects she is being until one night when, tortured by guilt reluctantly takes the case of a murdered pursued by her former lover and returns and loneliness, he places a call to his Asian American girl, whose killer is being home to a horrific scene of her own. teenage daughter, Morgan. He only utters protected by the highest levels of the (American) a single word, but like a solitary ripple Korean and American governments. spreading across the water, it is enough (American) to convince Morgan that her father is still alive. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Victor GISCHLER Kerry GREENWOOD Janis HARRISON The Pistol Poets 325pp Pb 24.95 Heavenly Pleasures Reap a Wicked Harvest Here Gischler draws us into a wild and 278pp Pb 19.95 272pp Pb 16.95 wicked world, where tenured professors A Corinna Chapman mystery #2. No one has A Gardening mystery. Florist Bretta are busy burying bodies, cash-up-front less interest in mysteries than Corinna Solomon is none too happy when she is PI’s hunt for missing co-eds and one Chapman, who has bread to bake, but they forced to spend her free time attending a desperate street-tough has to decide seem to be arising spontaneously in the funeral for which her shop provided the which he would rather be: a live poet or a vicinity of her bakery, Earthly Delights. arrangements or to attend the Customer dead criminal. Featuring the sleaziest, But disturbing things are also happening Appreciation fair at Parker Wholesale sorriest and most captivating group of close to home. Juliette Lefebvre, the owner Greenhouse, an event that is turned criminal lowlifes, sexed-up academics, of Heavenly Pleasures and maker of the upside down by the brutal murder of a poets and rappers ever to collide in one most gorgeous chocolates in town, is greenhouse assistant. (American) crime novel, this book speeds deliriously distraught. Someone is spiking her very M HERRON to its electrifying payoff. (American) expensive chocolates. Is it a joke, or is it a The Last Voice You Hear Leslie GLASS warning that worse may yet happen? If 285pp Hb 45.00 Over his Dead Body you would like to find out more about When a woman dies beneath the wheels 373pp Pb 16.95 Corinna, her bakery and her recipes, log of a train and her newly acquired lover In this delightfully infectious novel of on to www.earthlydelights.net.au. fails to turn up at the funeral, PI Zoe love and intrigue, Leslie Glass puts a sly (Australian) Boehm is hired to find him. 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Fish and Wildlife and a list of suspects are as numerous as different kinds of criminal and she starts Special Agent Angela Dimato is the stories of spiritual malfeasance that to wonder whether the man she is looking suspicious when her partner’s death is permeate the air. (American) for has found her first. And if he has, is ruled a suicide. When hundreds of geese Denise HAMILTON that going to make her another victim, or are found dead or dying and guests at the The Jasmine Trade might it prove to be her salvation? Drummond Hotel fall ill, Angela learns 275pp Pb 12.95 (British) that killers of a feather flock together. The death of bride-to-be Marina Chang in Joan HESS (American) a supposed carjacking sends Los Angeles Muletrain to Maggody Caroline GRAHAME Times reporter Eve Diamond on the trail 352pp Pb 16.95 Ghost in the Machine of California’s parachute kids, wealthy An Arly Hanks mystery. 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As far as he is concerned, a war Featuring Dalziel and Pascoe. Pal Maciver’s But Forbes Abbot is not quite the close- has begun. Tyler and the Delta Force feel suicide in a locked room exactly mirrors knit community it seems, and little they have let America down and are not that of his father 10 years earlier. In each differences and squabbles can become about to let that happen again. They vow case accusing fingers point towards Pal’s violent, even murderous. DCI Barnaby to boldly put Swift Sword into action, an stepmother, the beautiful enigmatic Kay has encountered many intriguing cases, anti-terrorism plan so radical that the Kafka. But she turns out to have a but the case of the ghost in the machine is Pentagon buried it like a dirty little secret. formidable champion, Mid-Yorkshire’s one to test even the most experienced of They will hit back at America’s enemies own super-heavyweight, DS Andrew detectives. (British) with a wrath from which there is no Dalziel. DCI Peter Pascoe, nominally in Andrew GREELEY sanctuary. (American) charge of the investigation, finds he is The Bishop Goes to the University Lee HARRIS constantly body-checked by his superior 250pp Pb 16.95 Murder in Alphabet City as he tries to disentangle the complex A Bishop Blackie Ryan novel. The Cardinal 304pp Pb 16.95 relationships of the Maciver family. At dispatches Blackie to the University on A Manhattan mystery. Promoted to first these inquiries seem local and the South Side of Chicago to investigate a detective first-grade with the NYPD, Jane domestic. What really happened between baffling locked-room mystery. Someone Bauer is delighted to be back after her near Pal and his stepmother? And how has key has assassinated a Russian Orthodox fatal run in with a killer, but her latest case, witness and exotic hooker Dolores, Our monk in his office at the Divinity School, a cold case involving the supposed suicide Lady of Pain, contrived to disappear from despite the fact that the door of his office by starvation death of schizophrenic the face of Mid-Yorkshire? (British) was bolted shut from the inside and no Anderson Stratton, has little chance of killer was found within. Who shot being solved, until her team stumbles Brother Semyon Ivanivich Popov? upon another grisly ‘suicide’ that may be (American) connected. (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Tony HILLERMAN Iris JOHANSEN Joe LANSDALE Skeleton Man 241pp Hb 56.00 Blind Alley 344pp Tp 30.00 Sunset and Sawdust A Joe Leaphorn and Sgt Jim Chee novel. An Eve Duncan 321pp Hb 35.00 Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help forensic thriller. It begins with an explosion: Sunset Jones investigate what seems to be a trading Instantly Eve’s kills her husband with a bullet to the post robbery. Proving the kid’s innocence peaceful life is brain. Never mind that he was raping her. requires finding the remains of one of 172 shattered: The Pete Jones was constable of the small people whose bodies were scattered sanctuary of the sawmill town of Camp Rapture where no among the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in lakeside cottage she woman, least of all Pete’s, refuses her an epic airline disaster 50 years ago. That shares with Atlanta husband what he wants. So everyone is passenger had handcuffed to his wrist an detective Joe Quinn surprised and angry when Sunset is attaché case containing a fortune in and their adopted named the new constable. Joe Lansdale diamonds. The daughter of the long-dead daughter Jane has brings the thick backwoods and swamps diamond dealer is also seeking his body. been invaded by a killer who has sent the of East Texas vividly to life, and he paints So is a most unpleasant fellow willing to grimmest of threats: the face of his next a powerfully evocative picture of a time kill to make sure she does not succeed. victim. To stop him, Eve must put her when Jim Crow and the Klan ruled These two tense tales collide deep in the own life in the balance and question virtually unopposed, when the oil boom canyon at the place where an old man everything and everyone she trusts. 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A strange book Jane Stanton HITCHCOCK is carrying around so found in each victim’s home might Trick of the Eye (1993) he can have more provide the link they have sought but 275pp Pb 24.95 than a half-life. And what does it mean? As Kaycee brings all A novel of psychological suspense set in Sally, the pretty her skills to bear on the unfathomable the social world of art and money. Faith single mom and case, she still must contend with a Crowell is 39 years old, content in an social worker who problem just as troubling: her ongoing artist’s life that is solitary yet not lonely. has helped Lew in battle with fading eyesight and inevitable But when she is commissioned to paint the past, wants to deepen their blindness. (American) the ballroom of an opulent Long Island friendship. On top of that, a local minister Jose LATOUR estate, the family’s dark secrets begin to asks him to find a town council member Havana World Series unfold. (American) who has gone missing just before a 320pp Tp 29.95 Bill JAMES crucial vote that could ruin a struggling It is the 1958 baseball World Series and Easy Streets 191pp Hb 45.00 community while a distraught father asks more money is at stake than ever. For the A Harpur and Iles mystery #21. him to track down his wife and two kids, first time the New York Yankees are the For years, Harpur’s slippery boss, who Lew suspects ran off with the man’s underdogs and the bets are just rolling in. Desmond Iles, had a nod-and-wink best friend. When people start showing A large part of this money is rolling into arrangement with drug dealers on his up dead, Lew knows he is in way over his Cuba. Batista may be sitting in the patch. Iles would turn a blind eye to their head and this time he may not be able President’s palace, but the famous businesses if they kept the peace. But the make it all come out okay. 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Why else would she agree to cover a Each contributor Now, with the police suspicious of her fund-raising gala at a girls’ public school? presents a brand new abilities and a killer on the loose, Abby’s But when the star attraction is found story set in a distinct future looks more uncertain than ever. garroted with her own cello string neighbourhood. This anthology mixes (American) minutes before she is due on stage, masters of genre with the best of New John LAWTON Lindsay finds herself investigating a York’s literary fiction community and, of Bluffing Mr Churchill vicious murder. Who would have wanted course, leaving room for new blood. 402pp Pb 18.95 Lorna Smith Cooper dead? (British) These brilliant and chilling stories see A Frederick Troy novel. Lawton transports Robert McGILL crime striking in communities of readers to 1941 London during the The Mysteries 341pp Tp 32.95 Russians, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, German Blitz, brilliantly re-creating the Robert, a young traveller, finds himself Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities era of ration tickets, air raids and bomb in the small Ontario town of Sunshine, in in the most diverse urban location on the shelters. Wolfgang Stahl, an American the middle of a party at the town’s wildlife planet. (American) spy operating undercover as an SS officer, park. He has been given a dirty yellow Steve MOSBY has fled Germany with Hitler’s secret notebook by the stranger he picked up on The Third Person 296pp Pb 12.95 blueprints for the invasion of Russia. As the way. The stranger told him to give it to Amy Sinclair did not come back. Now American, British and German operatives an Alice Pedersen. But Alice Pedersen Jason sits at home and cruises the same race through war-torn London in search disappeared two years ago. And there is a horrific websites that she once walked of the spy, bodies begin to pile up and the tiger on the loose. Told from the through to find her kidnapper. But when question arises: Are Stahl and his perspective of several of the townsfolk, the he lays a trap for a monster that he meets American contact being played by one of mystery of Alice’s disappearance slowly in a chat-room, he gets more than he their own? In this game of spy vs. spy, unravels, at the same time revealing the bargained for. He finds that nothing in only Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard will dark and murky secrets of the inhabitants this story is as it seems and that the clues be shrewd enough to uncover the truth. of Sunshine. (Canadian) lie in the mistakes of his own past. (British) Anthony McGOWAN (British) Heather LOWELL Stag Hunt 336pp Pb 20.95 Shirley Rousseau MURPHY No Escape 352pp Tp 27.95 A brilliant new talent bursts onto the Cat Fear No Evil 384pp Pb 16.95 Kelly Martin is a frightened scene with a chilling tale of retribution. A Joe Grey mystery. Becoming teenage runaway who made a scandalous The smiling one; the one who hurt; the suspicious in the wake of several accusation, then vanished, leaving Los shy one; the one who cried; the one who burglaries and the untimely death of a Angeles prosecutor Tessa Jacobi with a kissed: That is how he remembers the waiter, detective Joe Grey and his tabby ticking bomb of a case on her hands. gang of boys who tormented him when sidekick Dulcie follow leads that force When the investigation leads her to chic he was a child. Now 20 years have passed them into a confrontation with a renegade nightclubs, shadowy business deals and and it is time to make them pay. But into tomcat Joe hoped he would not see again. whispers of sexual slavery, Tessa the finely wrought net stumbles one man (American) understands that she is out of her league. who had nothing to do with the nastiness Tamar MYERS So she asks for help from a man whose in that minor public school. Matthew Thou Shalt Not Grill contacts and experience can help her Moriarty carries demons of his own, but 272pp Pb 16.95 bring Kelly home. (American) when Dominic Chance invites him along A Pennsylvania Dutch mystery with recipes. Terry LUDWIG to a stag weekend in a remote country Hoping to put her culinary skills to work Getting Garbo 332pp Pb 24.95 house, lost on a fold of the country for the celebration of the bicentennial of A novel of Hollywood noir. Set in the beyond the reach of mobile telephones, he Hernia, Pennsylvania, innkeeper glamorous, cruel and often bizarre could never imagine the horror that Magdalene Yoder finds the festivities cut Hollywood era of the 1950s, this is a waits. Or the beauty… (British) short when one of her guests is found hilarious and suspenseful novel of the G A McKEVETT murdered. (American) cinema’s Golden Age. 19-year old Reva Cereal Killer 315pp Pb 16.95 Tim MYERS Hess is a charming autograph collector A Savannah Reid Mystery #8. As the Snuffed Out 182pp Pb 14.95 and #1 fan of Roy Darnell, star of the hit new spokesperson for Wentworth’s A Candlemaking TV series Jack Havoc. Soon, the confusion Slenda Flakes, Cait Connor needed to lose mystery #2. When the between Roy’s own personality and the 30 pounds in 60 days and apparently died power goes out in dashingly dangerous Jack Havoc trying. It all seems cut and dried until Harrison Black’s becomes an ominous obsession and turns another plus model is killed in a hit-and- candle shop, he finds to murder. Along the way, Ludwig brings run. Now Savannah is really determined his tenant the old Hollywood to life, evoking the to avenge her curvaceous sisters... even if electrocuted. Now giant screen figures of Humphrey Bogart, it means going undercover for the Harrison will burn the Burt Lancaster, Grace Kelly and Frank camera. There are more models on the candle at both ends to Sinatra as well as the off-screen Slenda Flakes campaign who could be at catch a killer as the ruthlessness of Jack Warner. (American) risk, and enough suspects to keep tenant’s death starts to Savannah hopping. (American) look shockingly like murder. (American)

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Nora committed suicide in similar cellist with a modest Sinclair is a beautiful decorator who circumstances. What dark rituals could career, guilt has expects the best, and will do anything to have compelled them to fatal self abuse? become Abigail’s get it. Agent O’Hara keeps closing in, but Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet most constant the stronger his case; the less he knows Suleyman follow an Internet trail that companion. She has reconciled herself to whether he is pursuing justice or his own leads them to an underworld of Goth living alone. Alone, she knows, is what fatal obsession. In a novel so compelling nightclubs and satanic worship. But even she deserves until she meets Silas Graves, it reads like collaboration with Alfred those murky shadows hide more than a possessive, jealous man, who can Hitchcock, James Patterson unveils they reveal and the answers to an ever forgive almost anything except betrayal. surprise after surprise that will keep increasing number of suspicious deaths is They have two things in common: Their readers guessing until the last deadly more shocking and terrible than they secrets. And death. Abigail will not kiss. (American) could ever have imagined. (British) betray him. She had better not. (British) Joanne PENCE Kris NELSCOTT Baroness ORCZY Courting Disaster Stone Cribs 323pp Tp 29.95 The Old Man in the Corner (1924) 355pp Pb 16.95 A Smokey 220pp Tp 25.95 An Angie Amalfi Mystery. Normally the Dalton novel #4. 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Upon T Jefferson PARKER some strange happenings on a fishing arriving with her at California Girl 370pp Tp 29.95 boat and a second heaping helping of the hospital, they California in the 1960s and the homicide and it looks like poor Paavo discover that her injuries are due to the winds of change are raging. Orange may end up celebrating solo, due to the botched illegal abortion she had after groves uprooted for tract houses, people untimely DOA of his hapless fiancée! being raped. The woman survives, but flooding into Orange County, strange (American) the fallout is deadly: Her ex-husband new ideas in the air about war, music, Twist PHELAN vows revenge at any cost. And in a city sex, drugs and new influences ranging Family Claims 272pp Pb 16.95 torn apart by racial strife, gang wars and from Richard Nixon to Timothy Leary. On the verge of leaving the family a burgeoning drug problem, Smokey For the Becker brothers, however, the law firm for a better job, attorney Hannah believes that cost could be too high. past is always present and it comes Dain finds her career on the line when a Nelscott has authored another heart- crashing back full force when the body of real-estate deal suddenly goes awry. With stopping, complicated novel of a country the lovely and mysterious Janelle Vonn is $2m of investors’ money disappearing, ripped apart at the seams and a lone man discovered in an abandoned orange- she sets out to uncover the truth about the doing all he can to put things right. packing plant. The Beckers and the Vonns scheme. (American) (American) have a history, beginning years ago in Naomi RAND high school with a rumble between the Stealing for a Living brothers of each clan. But boys grow up. 325pp Pb 16.95 Now one Becker brother is a cop on his An Emma Price Mystery. Single PARKING first homicide case. 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CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Robert RANDISI Nicholas RHEA David ROBERTS Blood of Angels The Curse of the Golden Trough The More Deceived 355pp Pb 16.95 256pp Hb 45.00 246pp Hb 45.00 Young boys are being kidnapped in When Montague Pluke takes a holiday A murder mystery Chicago and turning up dead, strangled to abroad in the Italian medieval town of featuring Lord Edward death. Shockingly, the same thing is Siena, he is dismayed to discover the Corinth and Verity happening in St Louis, but there the authorities there deny the existence of the Browne. Winston victims are young girls. Is it one killer world famous Golden Trough. Even Churchill is dismayed seeking different victims in different cities, though the Golden Trough of Siena has to receive or could it be two killers at work with not been seen for 600 years, Pluke is unauthorised frighteningly similar methods? That is determined to find it. (British) information on the what Joe Keough and his partner Harriet Phil RICKMAN perilous state of Conners have to find out. (American) The Prayer of the Night Shepherd Britain’s rearmament Ian RANKIN 628pp Pb 19.95 programme in the Watchman (1988) 253pp Pb 18.95 The 6th Merrily year 1937. The Foreign Office brings in This new edition, available for the Watkins mystery. A Lord Edward Corinth to investigate the first time in 15 years, contains a new redundant TV leaks. Falling rapidly under Churchill’s introduction from the author. Bombs are producer has taken a spell, he is sidetracked from the exploding in the streets of London, but Victorian mansion on investigation to concentrate instead on life seems to have planted subtler booby- the Welsh border to finding the murderer of a Foreign Office traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His use for murder official, who could have been one of job is to watch and to listen, then to report mystery weekends. Churchill’s sources. He soon finds back to his superiors, nothing more. The Convinced that the himself trying to untangle a web of job appeals to Miles. He does not lust mansion is the site of deception that threatens the security of after promotion, and he does not want Conan Doyle’s the state. (British) action. He wants, just for once, not to Baskerville story, he invites trouble when David ROTENBERG botch a case. Having lost one suspect - his meddling in the spiritual realm The Hamlet Murders with horrific consequences - Miles attracts an unwholesome force that is far 215pp Tp 39.95 becomes too involved with another, a from fictional. (British) A Zhong Fong mystery. Fong is awakened young Irishwoman. His marriage seems J D ROBB by a call from the night watchman of the ready to crumble to dust. So does his Visions in Death Shanghai Theatre Academy, and he is home. (British) 320pp Pb 19.95 crying. At the theatre, Fong cannot Sue RANN An Eve Dallas investigation #19. A young believe his eyes. His old rival and his Looking for Mr Nobody mother is found raped and strangled in deceased wife’s lover, the Canadian 320pp Pb 19.95 the park, her body naked but for what theatre director Geoffrey Highland, Jan Wolf scrapes a living as a pavement appears to be a red ribbon tied around her swings from the end of a rope at centre artist in Amsterdam. But when a close neck. As Eve starts investigating Elisa stage, an apparent suicide. He feels the friend is abducted by sinister men in black, Maplewood’s friends and relations, an world spin beneath his feet and senses Wolf commits himself to a course of action offer of help comes from an unlikely not only that this is not a suicide but it has that puts him on a collision course with his source. The only reason Eve agrees to some connection to him. (Canadian) own elusive past - a past he knows only meet with psychic Celina Sanchez is that Louis SANDERS through nightmares. Now the police want she is a friend of a friend. But Celina An Ignoble Profession (2002) to talk to him, the men in black want him claims to have experienced visions of the 153pp Pb 22.95 dead and there is an American redhead on killer and can recite precise details of the Deep in the Dordogne, a book appears in his tail with a Lara Croft fixation and a case - details that the police have kept to local bookshops and the tale it tells is Glock-17 in her purse... Wolf is being themselves. Though Eve remains immediately recognised by four hunted down. (British) skeptical of Celina’s abilities, she will use seemingly innocent retired English Patrick REDMOND all the resources she can to track down couples. Different names, but the murky Apple of my Eye the killer before he strikes again. details of their pasts are deadly accurate. 516pp Pb 18.95 (American) Who is the mysterious writer? How much When young lawyer Daniel Latimer David ROBBINS does he know? What does he want? 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Carol SMITH Juli ZEH Boris AKUNIN Hidden Agenda 404pp Pb 19.95 Eagles and Angels Turkish Gambit 230pp Tp 29.95 Devastated by the shocking news 328pp Pb 21.95 An Erast Fandorin mystery. 1877, Paris. The that old school- friend Suzy Palmer faces Max, while grieving Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture execution in Louisiana for the murder of for his criminal and Fandorin, broken-hearted and her children, London rabbi Deborah girlfriend Jessie, slides disillusioned, has gone to the front in an Hirsch enlists the aid of her former into a drug-induced attempt to forget his sorrows. Captured classmates in an attempt to get her off. oblivion, his personal by the Turks, he wins his freedom in a She cannot be anything but innocent; the and professional game of backgammon, before finding Suzy they have known and loved all these descent assured. As he himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara years could never hurt a fly. Aided by probes into Jessie’s Suvorova - a ‘progressive’ Russian Miss Holbrook, Suzy’s former art teacher, past, a sinister web of woman trying to make her way to the the friends unite to prove her innocence. conspiracy is drawn Russian headquarters to join her fiancé. Back and forth across 30 years they around him, with a Fandorin’s efforts to steer clear of affairs slowly piece together what happened. cast of international of state are thwarted when a traitor is And even more shocking than Suzy’s lawyers, UNO politicians and mass discovered within the Russian camp. Our plight is the knowledge that one of their murderers. The Guardian says, “Zeh’s reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to numbers has betrayed her. (British) style is always enjoyable, her characters resurrect all of his dormant powers of Leann SWEENEY are vivacious and thrilling... 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An matrimonial murderer. (American) 5xCDs 6hours 39.95 aristocratic family in Dublin fears their Kathy Hogan TROCHECK The Full Cupboard of Life 5xCDs daughter has fled to the New World with Happy Never After 6hours 39.95 her unsavoury 320pp Pb 16.95 These abridged version are read by boyfriend, and they A Callahan Garrity mystery. When the Adjoa Andoh. hire Molly to track temperamental president of a thriving The Sunday Philosophy Club 5xCDs them down. Then she Atlanta recording company is found dead 6hours 39.95 is asked to go in his home, former cop and part time Phyllis Logan reads this abridged audio undercover as a piece sleuth Callahan Garrity must keep 1960s book. worker in the garment rock star Rita Fontaine out of jail in a fast business and paced story of fame and deceit. HISTORICAL investigate some (American) industrial . David WOLSTENCRAFT CRIME (American) Good News, Bad News Boris AKUNIN Fiona BUCKLEY 356pp Tp 32.95 Murder on the Leviathan The Fugitive Queen 277pp Tp 29.00 The stunning debut novel from the 249pp Pb 19.95 An Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen creator of Spooks, the BAFTA award- An Erast Fandorin mystery. March 1878, Elizabeth I’s court #7. 1568, England. It has winning spy drama. A secret agent is Paris. Lord Littleby, an English eccentric been three years since Ursula exchanged trained to try to think of every possible and collector, is found murdered in his her work as a spy for the relative calm of outcome and eventuality. Who could Paris house together with nine members married life. But Elizabeth summons her: have guessed, though, that a bureaucratic of his staff. A gold whale in the victim’s She is to pluck Penelope Mason, her error would send two men to the same hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the inappropriately flirtatious protégé, from ‘cover’ job, working in a shabby photo- Leviathan, the world’s largest steamship, court and find the disgraced girl a processing booth, where each must keep as the murderer is one of the 142 first class husband, and she is also to deliver a his real identity secret from the other, passengers. “Akunin is an outstanding secret warning to arch rival, Mary, Queen while awaiting orders? Or that those novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn of Scots. Gradually, Ursula understands orders would be to assassinate … each character who more than lives up to the true delicacy and danger of this other? Thrown together by this comparisons with Hercule Poirot or mission. Exiled after the suspicious death apparently ghastly mistake, Charlie and ...The characters are of her husband, Mary is now a guest in George decide to go on the run. Slick, delightful and you can imagine them in a Bolton Castle. Ursula, with her blade- clever, teasing and suspenseful, full of Woody Allen version of an Agatha sharp acuity, can outsmart Mary’s tradecraft for the traditional espionage Christie novel...Akunin’s work is notorious charm and sidestep treasonous fan and a modern sensibility for a whole gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously traps while extracting the truth. But can new generation of readers, who might edge-of-your-seat at the same time.” - The she protect her from a deadly game well be more used to watching Spooks. Daily Express. (Russian) where murder is a small price to pay? (British) (British)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 11 Barbara CLEVERLY Margaret FRAZER The Damascened Blade The Hunter’s Tale 323pp Pb 16.95 CRIME 297pp Pb 21.95 A Dame Frevisse Medieval mystery #13. 1910, Northwest 1448, England. When the vicious Sir Ralph NON-FFICTION Frontier. Ignoring the Woderove is found murdered near his command to retreat estate, nobody mourns. With stringent Paul ANDERSON to base, the conditions set out in his will, evil Sir Shotgun City 310pp Pb 19.95 Scotsman sets out Ralph seems to have found a way to Melbourne’s Gangland Killings. The alone to rescue his control his family from beyond the grave. execution of self-styled gangster fellow officer from When Tom, his eldest son, also dies, Alphonse Gangitano in January 1998 Pathan tribesmen Dame Frevisse returns to the castle to put sparked a deadly chain-reaction that has who are slowly an end to the family hostilities. so far led to the deaths of a further 26 torturing him to (American) people and shows no sign of relenting. death. A decade later Ashley GARDNER While a special police taskforce the backwash of this tragedy threatens to The Glass House 249pp Pb 14.95 codenamed ‘Purana’ has been set up to engulf Joe Sandilands. On secondment A novel of Regency investigate a number of the slayings and from Scotland Yard, Joe is spending a England. 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