“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #238 November 2005

P D JAMES Garry DISHER The Lighthouse 323pp Tp 29.95 Snapshot 337pp Tp 29.95 Combe Island, off the Cornish Coast, The neat suburban homes of the has a bloodstained history of piracy peninsula seem like an improbable and cruelty. Now privately owned, it setting for sex parties, blackmail and offers respite to over-stressed people in murder. Winter is closing in on the positions of high authority who coastal community of Waterloo. require privacy and guaranteed Behind closed doors, its residents security. But the peace of Combe is have some peculiar ways of keeping violated when a distinguished visitor warm. When Detective Inspector Hal is bizarrely murdered. Adam Dalgleish Challis is called to investigate the is called in to solve the mystery quickly brutal murder of Janine McQuarrie, and discreetly, but it is a difficult time shot in a deserted country lane as her for him and his depleted team. seven-year-old daughter looked on, Dalgleish is uncertain about his future with Emma Lavenham, his progress is hampered by lies and secrets. It doesn’t help that the woman he loves, while Detective Inspector Kate Miskin has Challis’s superior - bureaucrat, golfer and toady Superintendent her own emotional problems and the ambitious Anglo-Indian, McQuarrie - is Janine’s father-in-law. Or that Challis has his own Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith, is worried about working under personal demons to confront. Everybody has something to hide Kate. The team have hardly begun to unravel the complicated and something to lose. And someone in Waterloo is determined motives of the suspects when there is a second brutal killing. The to kill again. The 3rd in Garry Disher’s highly praised Inspector whole investigation is jeopardised when Dalgleish is faced with Challis series following Dragon Man and Kittyhawk Down a danger more insidious than, and as potentially fatal as, (both Pb 19.95). The New York Times Book Review says: “Enough murder. This eagerly awaited successor to The Murder Room with the angst – time for a straightforward police story with a (Pb 22.95) displays the qualities which aficionados have come to terrific plot, nuanced characters and solid procedures, served up expect of P D James: sensitive characterisation, an exciting and on refreshing new turf… all this has been done before, but rarely superbly structured plot, and vivid evocation of place. Highly with such smooth, assured mastery.” Highly recommended. recommended. (English) (Australian) A QUALITY QUARTET OF CRIME Boris AKUNIN Jacqueline WINSPEAR The Death of Achilles 330pp Tp 29.95 Pardonable Lies 328pp Tp 32.95 International intrigue, Caucasian banditry, the criminal Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, has handled underworld in 19th-century Moscow and an irresistible femme many difficult cases since she opened her office in Fitzroy fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he Square, London. But few requests have been as unusual as the is about to be disappointed. Returning to Moscow after an one she receives from Sir Cedric Lawton one September absence of six years, he finds himself instantly embroiled in evening in 1930: she must prove that his son Ralph is really court politics and scandal. His old friend General Sobolev – the dead. This case will challenge Maisie in unexpected ways, for famous ‘Russian Achilles’ – has been found dead in a hotel Ralph was an aviator shot down by enemy fire in 1917. If she room and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous is ever to get to the bottom of the mystery, she must travel to powers of detection, he embarks on the battlefields of northern France, an investigation, during which the where many ghosts still linger. She political and the personal may quickly realises that her become dangerously blurred. With investigation is producing far more the assistance of some formidable questions than answers. And martial-arts skills acquired in Japan, before she can reach the truth, she our eccentric and ingenious hero must first uncover all sorts of endeavours to discover not so much secrets and lies that some people whodunit, as why. The 4th outing would clearly prefer stayed buried. for Fandorin following Winter This is the 3rd outing for Maisie Queen and Leviathan (both Pb following Maisie Dobbs (Pb 20.95) 19.95) and Turkish Gambit (Tp and Birds of a Feather (Tp 32.95). 29.95). Highly recommended - I can She is a heroine to cherish. Highly barely wait a year for each new recommended. (English, but a US adventure! (Russian) resident) - Peter 2 Modern Crime Liz ALLEN Stephen BOOTH Tawfik AL-HAKIM The Set-Up 443pp Pb 19.95 Dancing with the Virgins Diary of a Country Number One disappears after a 562pp Pb 19.95 Prosecutor night out with her girlfriends. Number In a remote part of the Peak District stand 135pp Pb 26.00 Two disappears after working late at the the Nine Virgins, a ring of stones Who shot Kamar al-Dawla office. Number Three disappears after a overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, as Alwan? Was it a crime of business trip to New York. They were all winter closes in, a 10th figure is added to passion? What was the role of the young, successful and beautiful. The the circle; the body of Jenny Weston is beautiful peasant girl Rim? Is the Dublin police are baffled, and call in Kate discovered with her limbs arranged so mysterious Sheikh Asfur as crazy as he Waters, crime profiler, to give them a she appears to be dancing. This might seems? This book is an Egyptian comedy lead. Kate welcomes the job, but she has a only be the beginning. (British) of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is history with the lead detective on the Elizabeth BRIGHT written as the journal of a young public case, Timmy Vaughan, and they both Invitation to Murder prosecutor posted to a village in rural fight to keep things on a firmly 228pp Pb 16.95 Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a professional footing. As the investigation A Card Making mystery. Jennifer Shane’s European education, he encounters a progresses, Kate and Vaughan realise brainchild of a shop, Custom Card world of poverty and backwardness they are dealing with some of Dublin’s Creations, has not been all glitter and where an imported legal system is both most vicious criminals. (Irish) tinsel. Customers are scarce and, after alien and incomprehensible. Tawfik al- Robert ANDREWS finally landing a client, Jennifer hears a Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898 A Murder of Justice murder over the phone. And when she and studied law in Paris. He worked as a 299pp Pb 18.95 receives a threatening note, it is clear public prosecutor in a provincial When drug runner Skeeter Hodges is someone has designs on her life, too. Egyptian town before becoming the Arab killed, homicide detectives Frank Now, between holding card making world’s leading dramatist, as well as a Kearney and José Phelps investigate - lessons, trying to scissor her ex-fiancé out major short-story writer and man of until their boss tells them to pin as many of her life, and piecing together a murder, letters. He died in 1987. (Egyptian) unsolved cases on Skeeter as possible. Jennifer has really got her work cut out With the streets turning into killing fields for her. (American) KEY and the pressure growing, the pair must Maggie BRUCE academic choose between following orders and The Gourdmother following their instincts. (American) 260pp Pb 16.95 banking Linda BARNES The First Gourd Craft mystery. Brooklyn Hardware 382pp Pb 16.95 girl Lili Marino has found herself starting canine detectives Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle has over in the tiny village of Walden been hired by a cab company to Corners, New York, where she has the clerical investigate a series of attacks targeting time and space to cultivate her first love: Boston area cab drivers. It seems crafting gourds. She is also becoming cosy/malice domestic somebody is after their medallions. Then surprisingly expert at cutting to the rotten Carlotta discovers hidden microphones heart of a mystery. Lily is just starting to culinary/food in the garage at the taxi company she feel welcomed in Walden Corners when works for but when she brings it to the she finds the local high school football fbi attention of Sam Gianelli, (the company’s coach dead on the first day of hunting co-owner and Carlotta’s off-again, on- season. (American) feline detectives again lover), he does not want the Joe BUFF microphones disturbed and will not say Straits of Power 512pp Pb 18.95 forensic why. (American) Clive Cussler says, “Joe Buff takes horse racing mystery Carol Lea BENJAMIN the reader through a labyrinth of action Lady Vanishes 288pp Pb 16.95 and high adventure.” Patrick Robinson medical Harbor View is a Greenwich Village says this book is a “hair-raising trip to the home for thrown away people. The bottom of the ocean.” (American) military residents love Lady, the live-in therapy Jeff BUICK dog. But when the owner dies in a tragic Lethal Dose 357pp Pb 16.95 and bizarre hit-and-run accident and native american Gordon Buchanan discovers that Lady vanishes, Harbor View is plunged his brother’s death was attributed to a into chaos. Working undercover, with her police procedural medication produced by Veritas pit bull Dashiell filling in for the missing Pharmaceuticals, the largest drug political/legal Lady, Rachel Alexander discovers that company in the country. Vowing to the residents know more than anyone destroy Veritas, he goes up against CEO psychological thinks they do. As she struggles to Bruce Andrews, who will stop at nothing decipher the clues she to silence Gordon forever. (American) private eye finds, she comes to Alafair BURKE believe that the Close Case 350pp Tp 29.95 romantic suspense owner’s death was no A Samantha Kincaid mystery. accident at all, that Investigating the brutal murder of a sport Lady’s disappearance hotshot journalist, Samantha Kincaid might also be part of a finds herself caught in the middle of an spy dark picture of greed, increasingly personal, and potentially conspiracy and suspense/thriller dangerous, struggle between Portland’s murder. (American) AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB police and the DA’s office. (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 James Lee BURKE Margaret COEL Isis CRAWFORD In the Moon of Red Ponies Wife of Moon 285pp Pb 18.95 A Catered Wedding 385pp Pb 19.95 In Margaret Coel’s latest Wind River 301pp Pb 16.95 A fourth novel featuring former Texas Reservation mystery, an atrocity from the Leeza Sharp is getting ready to have the Ranger, turned lawyer, turned crime past has resurfaced with a vengeance. wedding of her dreams. She has got a fighter, Billy Bob Holland, and is set in Two murders, a century apart, are linked $25,000 dress (gorgeous and made to the savage and beautiful landscape of to photographs taken of the Arapahos on order), a rich Estonian fiancé (head of a Montana. A first-rate read. (American) the reservation in 1907, currently on multimillion dollar caviar empire) and a Andrea CAMILLERI display at St Francis’ Mission. As they four-star menu (planned by none other The Snack Thief begin their investigation, Father John than Bernadette and Libby Simmons). But 294pp Pb 19.95 O’Malley and Vicky Holden unearth the dream wedding quickly turns into a An Inspector Montalbano mystery. When an secrets best left buried. (American) nightmare. Just hours before she is elderly man is stabbed to death in an Rick COPP scheduled to walk down the aisle, Leeza elevator and a crewman on an Italian The Actor’s Guide to Adultery takes an arrow to the chest and drops fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a 296pp Tp 29.95 dead. Now Libby and Bernadette have Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily’s coast, They say bad news comes in threes. more on their minds than pouring Cristal only Inspector Montalbano suspects the Jarrod Jarvis is about to test that theory. and cutting up wedding cake: they’ve got link between the two incidents. His The irrepressible detective is hot on the an archery inclined killer to find. investigation leads to the beautiful comeback trail as an actor when his (American) Karima, an impoverished house cleaner insane childhood stalker, Wendell Deborah CROMBIE and sometime prostitute, whose young Butterworth, is granted parole. Wicked In a Dark House son steals other school children’s mid- amusement found here. (American) 448pp Tp 32.95 morning snacks. But when Karima Vena CORK A corpse, burned beyond disappears, the young snack thief’s life is Thorn 472pp Pb 19.95 recognition, has been endangered as the inspector exposes a The Thorns are living a happy family uncovered in a vacant viper’s nest of government corruption life in North West London when a warehouse in Southwark. and international intrigue. (Italian) tragedy changes their lives for ever. Rosa A young, beautiful Joanna CARL takes a job as a supply drama teacher in hospital administrator The Chocolate Mouse Trap the tough, local comprehensive school to has vanished without a 228pp Pb 16.95 which her two teenage children also trace. And across the Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney attend. Then someone begins to stalk her City, within an old, dark, has had enough of party planner Julie daughter and sinister events unfold. The rambling house, a rigidly Singletree’s cutesy e-mails. Then urban world is becoming a sinister place controlling, anonymous woman is holding somebody actually kills the woman, for the Thorns, but is Rosa strong enough 10-year-old Harriet hostage. While putting everyone on her mailing list on to protect her children. (British) innocent lives hang in the balance, sinister edge. As their connections to the murder Catherine COULTER truths unfurl and DS Duncan Kincaid and emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a The Beginning 534pp Tp 29.95 DI Gemma James must call upon all rat and it is not made of chocolate. And if The first two thrillers in this FBI resources to work together on their most she does not want to be permanently series, The Cove (1996) and The Maze menacing case yet. This novel is packaged deleted, it is up to her to trap it. (1997), are for the first time published with a free copy of Share in Death (Pb (American) together in one volume. In these exciting 16.95), the first James/Kincaid mystery. Sammi CARTER novels of intrigue and suspense, readers (American) Candy Apple Dead are introduced to Special Agents Dillon Jeffrey CRUIKSHANK 231pp Pb 14.95 Savich and Lacey Sherlock; readers watch Murder at the B-School A Candy Shop mystery. Leaving behind a the sparks fly as the agents’ relationship 372pp Pb 16.95 career in corporate law and a cheating heats up amid cases that could destroy This riveting debut novel probes murder, husband, Abby Shaw returns to her everything they hold dear. (American) pretension and conspiracy in the halls of hometown of Paradise to take over her Peter CRAIG Harvard University’s famed graduate aunt’s candy shop, Divinity. But her Hot Plastic 340pp Pb 24.95 programme. When the dean of the sweet new life quickly turns sour when a Masters of identity department summons him to a hastily fellow merchant dies in a fire. With all theft and stolen credit called and unscheduled meeting, young clues pointing to arson, and Abby’s card statements, Kevin assistant professor Wim Vermeer fears brother as the number one suspect, she and Jerry move from that his career has come to an abrupt end. must sink her teeth into finding the killer. one seedy motel to But instead of terminating his contract, the (American) another, always trying dean hands him a sensitive assignment. Nora CHARLES for the big score. Colette (American) Death is a Bargain is a runaway who Clare CURZON 198pp Pb 16.95 dreams of conning her Last to Leave 287pp Pb 22.95 Kate and her best friend Marlene are way into the upper Carlton Dellar could not have attending the Palmetto Beach Flea Market echelons of high society. When Kevin and hoped for a more eventful 80th birthday. in hopes of selling Marlene’s collection of Colette are forced to return to Kevin’s Under the reproachful eye of his spouse 1950s memorabilia. Fortunately, a table newly paroled father, the three are Claudia, his extended family are gathered has become available in the busy corridor reunited for one final scam, a patchwork to celebrate with the poet for what is just outside the circus tent. of old and new techniques that should set silently suspected to be the last time. But Unfortunately, the vacant table’s them up for life. But would they rather the guests on the lawn watch in confusion previous occupant died from work together or show each other up? This as Larchmoor Place is razed to the ground electrocution when a television set took a thriller about family and criminal intent is by fire. Superintendent Mike Yeadings dive into his bathtub. (American) told from a fresh new voice. (American) suspects arson. (British)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Didier DAENINCKX Eileen DREYER Ruth FRANCISCO Murder in Memoriam (1984) Head Games 417pp Pb 16.95 Good Morning, Darkness 154pp Pb 19.95 Molly Burke, death investigator and 329pp Pb 16.95 Recipient of the French Detective Fiction trauma nurse for St Louis’s Grace A Mexican fisherman makes a gruesome Prize in 1984, this novel features the Hospital, has her own share of lifelong discovery on the beach not far from LA’s laconic Inspector Cadin in his attempt to demons. It makes her the perfect Marina del Rey: “I found the first arm. solve the double murder of a father and candidate to help the troubled children The second one washed up on Malibu son. The trail of clues he must follow leads who have passed through her ER over the Beach, seven miles north of here. The rest to the time of the German occupation of years. But one of them refuses to be of the body must’ve gotten eaten by France during WWII. (French) ignored. He is back with a vengeance, sharks.” (American) Shirley DAMSGAARD willing to kill to get Molly’s attention John FRANCOME Witch Way to Murder again. (American) Back Hander 405pp Pb 19.95 292pp Pb 16.95 Robert EDRIC Not much is going right for jockey Ophelia Jensen considers her psychic Siren Song 523pp Pb 23.95 Alan Morrell. He cannot get the rides he powers inconvenient at best and at worst, Song Cycle trilogy #2. Hull PI Leo needs and when he sets up a bloodstock downright dangerous. Her kindly old Rivers is approached by the mother of a partnership, a tragic accident robs him of grandmother Abby has no compunctions girl who disappeared a year earlier in the business and his best friend Lee. Now about the paranormal, being a practicing violent and mysterious circumstances. Alan owes £100,000 and his only asset is a witch with unique abilities of her own. Investigating both the background to this racehorse who has yet to be put to the Sometimes otherworldly arts do come in disappearance, and the man held to be test. But all that fades into insignificance handy, like when the arrival of a responsible; Rivers is drawn through a next to the suspicion that Lee’s fatal fall mysterious, good-looking stranger to long, hot summer into a world of human- was more than an accident... (British) their normally tranquil corner of Iowa trafficking and governmental corruption Leonardo Padura FUENTES seems to trigger an epidemic of at every turn. Each unravelled piece of Adios Hemingway catastrophes, from the theft of bomb- the mystery moves him further from the 229pp Pb 23.00 making materials to a murdered corpse vanished girl and deeper into a web of When a human skeleton is discovered at dumped in Abby’s backyard. (American) exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge Ernest Hemingway’s home in Havana, Diane Mott DAVIDSON and violence. Eventually, he is unable to police inspector Mario Conde is called up Double Shot 386pp Pb 18.95 extricate himself without unforeseen and out of retirement to unearth the truth. In In her 12th novel, her tastiest tale tragic consequences. (British) the course of his investigations, Conde yet, this ingenious storyteller whips up a Penelope EVANS gradually reconstructs the mysterious rich soufflé of murder and mischief. Fatal Reunion 288pp Tp 29.95 goings-on of the night of 3 October 1958 Caught in a web of secrets and lies that Guy Latimer and his wife Carlie have and in doing so is forced to come to terms could tear her family apart, Goldy must made a life and a child together. But there with a very different side to the character use all of her considerable powers of has always been someone else haunting of his former literary hero. Padura detection to find a real killer before she their past. Magnus. Years ago, he took Fuentes cleverly cuts between Conde’s herself becomes a target. (American) Carlie to the brink of suicide. (British) world and that of Hemingway’s Cuba Frank DEVLIN Dan FESPERMAN four decades earlier. In the heat and rum Love in all the Wrong Places The Warlord’s Son haze, the two seem to slowly merge as the 262pp Pb 18.95 475pp Pb 23.95 reader is taken on an extraordinary Helen preys on single men on the up. Burned-out American foreign journey into the past and into the Always hoping to find her perfect love, correspondent Skelly is back on the beat. personality of one of the 20th century’s she is doomed to seek it in all the wrong Post-9/11, trailing another messy divorce most enigmatic and interesting writers. It places and the men she chooses always and too many children, he’s been is a masterful and totally convincing end up dead. As the bodies mount up, dropped into the smoky chaos of portrait that emerges, as well as a riveting savvy San Francisco homicide detective Peshawar. Soon he is driving dusty roads mystery that keeps the reader on Rose Burke begins to see their connection. west in the shadowy wake of ex- tenterhooks until the very final pages. Rose is struggling in her marriage, Mujahedeen Mahmood Razaq, who, (Cuban) reluctantly pregnant and grieving the armed with dubious assurances of Jim FUSILLI death of her former detective partner, but American backing, hopes to stake his Hard, Hard City she remains relentless in her pursuit of a claim as leader of the next regime. 290pp Pb 18.95 killer. This is a thoughtful, psychologically (American) At his daughter’s request, PI Terry Orr acute suspense novel laced with Chris FOX searches for a gifted teenage boy who has unexpected twists and a shocking The Devil’s Halo 470pp Tp 32.95 disappeared. He is greeted by conclusion. (American) In 2010, Old Europe is fading from unexpected violence and realisations Philip DONLAY memory. Germany is bankrupt, NATO about his past and his own relationship Category Five 406pp Pb 18.95 dissolved. A super-sized Greater with his daughter. (American) A Hurricane-Force novel. In the Atlantic European Union, led by France and Tess GERRITSEN Ocean, hurricane Helena is gathering Russia, engages in political Body Double 463pp Pb 19.95 strength, becoming the most powerful brinksmanship with the United States. Boston medical examiner Dr storm in recorded history. As Helena The new leaders of Europe are obsessed Maura Isles literally meets her match. She bears down on Bermuda, Donovan Nash with the American problem, that Europe must face a savage serial killer and and other members of the scientific still plays a global #2 to the USA, even in shattering personal revelations research organisation Eco-Watch are space. But DGSE spy service has simultaneously. Never before has her called to fly in and extract key government developed a technology solution to the blood run cold, and never has the grim people who have been studying Helena. In American problem. It will make Europe expression dead-ringer rung so a bold attempt to diffuse the power of the #1 in space, and reduce the US military to terrifyingly true, because never before hurricane, Eco-Watch is called upon to a fighting force that will have to fight has the lifeless body on the medical conduct a final flight above the massive with its fists. (British) examiner’s table been her own. fury of Helena. (American) (American) CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Judith GOULD Lee HARRIS Chuck HOGAN The Parisian Affair 372pp Pb 18.95 The Silver Anniversary Murder Prince of Thieves 636pp Pb 22.95 At the request of her publicity-shy 245pp Pb 16.95 Four masked boss, jewellery designer Allegra Sheridan A Christine Bennett mystery. As foretold to men - thieves, rivals purchases a celebrated jewel at a Paris Christine in an early morning phone call and friends from the auction. But her possession of it invites from a stranger, a woman’s body turns tough streets of threats from a lethally handsome up along with the worried daughter of Charlestown - take stranger. For embedded in this sought- the Mitchell’s. (American) on a Boston bank at after gem is a legendary mystery, a Libby Fischer HELLMANN gunpoint. Holding scandalous history and a global A Shot to Die For bank manager Claire conspiracy that means death to anyone 319pp Pb 16.95 Keesey hostage and who discovers its secrets. (American) Returning from a video shoot, Ellie cleaning out the vault Alex GRAY Foreman assists a woman abandoned at a was simple. But Shadows of Sounds rest stop only to witness her murder career criminal Doug 269pp Tp 29.95 moments later. When the victim’s family MacRay didn’t plan The Glasgow Orchestra is rehearsing, begs Ellie to help, she soon finds herself on one thing: falling in love with Claire. unaware of the sequence of events caught in the crosshairs of a killer. Racing to an explosive climax, Chuck happening backstage. When George (American) Hogan’s brash tale of robbery in all its Millar, the orchestra’s leader, is brutally Carl HIAASEN forms is an unforgettable odyssey of murdered in his dressing room, his The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus #2 crime, love, ambition and dreams. colleagues are shocked. But the show 1176pp Tp 30.00 (American) must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer and This volume contains: Native Tongue Linda HOWARD psychologist Solomon Brightman to (1991), Strip Tease (1993) and Stormy Killing Time 330pp Tp 32.95 investigate. What they uncover is a series Weather (1995). (American) In 1985, a time capsule was buried in of irrevocably tangled relationships Jack HIGGINS the front lawn of a small town between the orchestra members. Until his Without Mercy 327pp Tp 29.95 courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But death, Millar had been involved in As DS just 20 years later, in the middle of the homosexual relationships with several Hannah Bernstein of night, the capsule is dug up and its orchestra members and was well known Special Branch lies contents stolen. (American) for playing his lovers off against each recuperating in the Iris JOHANSEN other. But were his controversial hospital, a dark Blind Alley 397pp Pb 19.95 dalliances really enough to incite cold- shadow from her An Eve Duncan forensic thriller. Eve blooded murder? A thrilling, dark tale past, scarred deep is asked to reconstruct the identity of a from one of Scotland’s finest writers. by hatred, steals young Jane Doe, her face left (British) across the room and unrecognisable. But whoever killed her Alex GRAY finishes the job. was not just trying to hide her identity. A Small Weeping Consumed by grief As the face forms under Eve’s expert 335pp Pb 22.95 and rage, Dillon, hands, she is about to get the shock of her The body of a prostitute is discovered in Blake, Ferguson and all who loved life. The victim is someone she knows all Glasgow’s Queen Street Station, sparking Hannah swear vengeance, no matter too well. Someone who isn’t dead. Yet a murder hunt that focuses on the city’s where it takes them. But they have no Eve finds herself trying to catch a master seamier side. DCI Lorimer and idea of the searing journey upon which murderer. (American) psychologist Solomon Brightman must they are about to embark, nor of the war decide if this is the work of a serial killer which will change them all. (British) when the body of a young nurse is found dead in a private clinic, with her corpse positioned in an identical way to that of RECOMMENDED READING the first victim. Once again, Gray takes the Mark GIMENEZ reader on a journey through the streets of The Color of Law 306pp Tp 29.95 Glasgow, this time weaving into her tale the very fabric of the city with the wilds of When a debut crime novel begins with a quote from Atticus Finch, the Scottish Outer Hebrides. (British) you can guarantee the issue du jour will be colour/race in America with a side serving of historical injustice and class differences. Parnell HALL This novel doesn’t disappoint and, happily, it’s not as corny as the And a Puzzle to Die On early John Grisham. In essence, a black American hooker is 347pp Pb 16.95 accused of murdering the son of Presidential wannabe, US A Puzzle Lady mystery. When nerdy Senator Mack McCall. There is plenty of physical evidence – and cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a her personal testimony – placing her in his bed that fateful night, birthday bash for Cora Felton at the so it should be an open-and-shut case. Scott Feney is one of 50 Bakerhaven Library, it partners in a prestigious Dallas law firm, the embodiment of the is no surprise that the (white, male) American dream. His wife is the most beautiful, his centrepiece, a huge cake house the largest, his car the fastest and his young daughter the smartest… Into every decorated like a life some pain must call and, when he is chosen by the eminent Judge Samuel Buford crossword puzzle, is a – senior judge on the federal bench for the Northern District of Texas – to represent complete bust until a the accused, his life takes a sharp detour to Hell. The guilty pleasure is watching Scott corpse thrown from the get his come-uppance in spades, but the real thrills concern the character second floor stacks hits development and interplay between the supporting players. It isn’t a startlingly it dead centre, filling in original tale, but the assurance and style with which it is told make for an enjoyable 14 down. (American) read. I’ll be looking forward with interest to his next novel. (American) - Cara

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Nicholas JOSE Stephen LEATHER Henning MANKELL Original Face 307pp Tp 27.95 Soft Target 520pp Pb 19.95 The Man Who Smiled Part thriller, part ethnic noir, dark There is only one thing more 325pp Tp 32.95 and comic by turns, this novel offers a dangerous than a corrupt cop and that is A Kurt Wallander mystery. Crestfallen, sensuous and highly coloured portrait of a corrupt cop with a gun. When a group dejected and spiralling into an alcohol- the jostling energies that make up life in of armed police in an elite unit turn fuelled depression after killing a man in contemporary Australian cities. Drawing maverick and start to rip off drug dealers the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander its title from an ancient Zen koan, the at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan ‘Spider’ has made up his mind to quit the police novel traces the complicated manoeuvres Shepherd is given his most dangerous force for good. When an old acquaintance, by which people mask their identities, mission so far. (American) a solicitor, seeks Wallander’s help to and the accidental pathways by which the Pam LEWIS investigate the suspicious circumstances hidden selves come to light. (Australian) Speak Softly, She Can Hear in which his father has died, Kurt does not Gordon KENT 405pp Pb 22.00 want to know. But when the solicitor also Force Protection 536pp Pb 18.95 It is the 1960s and 16-year-old Carole turns up dead, shot three times, Wallander This fifth exhilarating tale of modern Mason and her friend Naomi set out to realises he was wrong not to listen. espionage and military adventure lose their virginity to Eddie Lindbaeck, a (Swedish) featuring US Navy intelligence officer man they barely know. Events, however, Guillermo MARTINEZ Alan Craik is sure to appeal to fans of go horribly wrong when a woman ends The Oxford Murders Tom Clancy and Dale Brown. (American) up dead in a motel room and a terrible 197pp Tp 28.00 Alice KIMBERLY secret between the friends is sealed. 10 On a balmy summer’s day in Oxford, an The Ghost and the Dead Deb years later, the girls have grown up and old lady who once helped decipher the 262pp Pb 16.95 lost touch, but Carole is still haunted by Enigma Code is killed. After receiving a A Haunted Bookshop mystery #2. Bookshop that night. When Naomi unexpectedly re- cryptic, anonymous note containing only owner Penelope Thornton-McClure enters her life and throws it into turmoil, the address and the symbol of a circle, wants her resident sleuth-ghost Jack to Carole is forced to come to terms with Arthur Seldom, a leading mathematician, stop haunting her customers. But when a what really happened, seeking revenge arrives to find the body. It is left to pretty author is murdered, Jack can’t rest and finally redemption. (British) Seldom and a postgraduate mathematics in peace. (American) Robert LITTELL student to work out the key to the series Elsa KLENSCH Legends 395pp Tp 29.95 of symbols before the killer strikes again. Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15 A novel of Dissimulation. Martin (Argentinian) 290pp Pb 16.95 Odum is a CIA field agent turned private Priscilla MASTERS A Sonya Iversion novel. Elsa Klensch, detective, struggling his way through a River Deep 265pp Pb 22.95 former host of CNN’s Style with Elsa labyrinth of past identities: ‘legends’ in Living close to the river Severn, it is Klensch, has an insider’s knowledge of the CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? no surprise to the residents of fashion industry’s most flamboyant Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives Shrewsbury to have the occasional flood. personalities, coupled with an outsider’s maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War But the latest deluge stirs up more than sharp-eyed objectivity. This book has been expert? These men like different foods, just mud and silt, and the locals are rave reviewed by Donna Karan, Calvin speak different languages, have different horrified by what comes floating to the Klein and other fashionistas. (American) skills. Is he suffering from multiple surface… A tense and gripping read, this J A KONRATH personality disorder, brainwashing or is the first in a series featuring the coroner Whiskey Sour 289pp Pb 17.95 simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the Martha Gunn. (British) A Jacquelin ‘Jack’ Daniels mystery. CIA psychiatrist? Or Stella Kastner, a Archer MAYOR Struggling with a broken relationship, young Russian woman who engages him The Surrogate Thief insomnia-inducing credit card bills, the to find her brother-in-law so he can give 326pp Pb 16.95 FBI’s inaccurate profiling computer and a her sister a divorce. 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