“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #259 August 2007

CWA DAGGER AWARDS 2007 BOOKS ALIVE 2007 PETER TEMPLE WINS DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER PETER TEMPLE WINS DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER (25 JULY - 31 AUGUST) Congratulations to Australian Peter Temple on One of the busiest sections in Abbey’s is our growing Books Alive is on again winning the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the world’s range of Historical Crime. and Abbey’s is most prestigious award for crime fiction for The celebrating by giving Broken Shore (352pp Pb $22.95). Formerly known away a brand new free as the Golden Dagger, past winners of this award book! Just purchase include literary giants John le Carré, Ian Rankin any title from The 2007 and Patricia Cornwell. Short-listed against well- Books Alive Great known writers James Lee Burke, Gillian Flynn and Read Guide between Giles Blunt, Temple thought his chances of 25 July and 31 August winning were slim. “You’re up against some of the and receive a free copy world’s best crime writers in English. I was proud of Peter FitzSimons’ enough just to be the first Aussie to make the new book, The Ballad shortlist, let alone win.” The Broken Shore, of Les Darcy. Temple’s 8th novel, was described by judges as 50 BOOKS SO GOOD, EVERYONE WILL WANT TO READ THEM “a well-written crime novel with excellent characterisation mingled with a subtle exploration of contemporary Australian landscape and mores. This is a first class read with a sympathetic, engrossing police protagonist.” Until recently, it had not been printed in the UK as it was “too Australian”. Temple has won five Ned Kelly awards and is the first Australian to win a Gold Dagger. The Duncan Lawrie International Dagger for the PETER FITZSIMONS BOOK The Ballad of Les Darcy, when you best crime novel translated into English has for the buy any book from this Guide. Visit booksalive.com.au to find out more!

second year running been won by the See inside for more details. writer/translator team of Fred Vargas and Sîan Here are some of the guaranteed Great Reads Reynolds, this time for Wash This Blood Clean from the Books Alive guide: from My Hand (see page 9, Pb $29). Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (Pb $19.95) Newcomer Gillian Flynn achieved remarkable success with Sharp Objects (Pb $29), winning both Undertow (Cliff Hardy #29) the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the New Blood by Peter Corris (Pb $19.95) Dagger. It is a tribute to the broad appeal of her book Silvermeadow (Brock & Kolla #5) that it was singled out by three separate panels of by Barry Maitland (Pb $19.95) judges, acting independently. Hit by Tara Moss (Pb $20) The CWA Dagger in the Library is awarded to “the Diamond Dove by Heather Rose (Pb $24.95) author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving Husband by Dean Koontz (Pb $20) the greatest enjoyment to readers”. Authors are Rubdown by Leigh Redhead (Pb $12.95) nominated by UK libraries and readers’ groups and Fox Hunt by James Phelan (Pb $19.95) judged by a panel of librarians. The winner this year was Stuart MacBride. Dragon Man (Hal Challis #1) by Gary Disher (Pb $22.95) “His books tell of life in all its grim reality, but this only adds to the appeal of this truly impressive new The Butterfly Man author... the grimmest of subjects, but leavened by Heather Rose (Pb $24.95) (thankfully) with dashes of humour. He’s bad news for the Aberdeen tourist industry, but great news for crime readers.” The Cartier Diamond Dagger, for sustained For more information, visit excellence in the genre of crime writing, was won by www.booksalive.com.au. John Harvey. - Ann 2 Modern Crime John BINGHAM W J BURLEY A Fragment of Fear Wycliffe and the House of Fear Mark ABERNETHY 224pp Pb $28.00 (1995) 240pp Pb $19.95 Golden Serpent 488pp Tp $29.95 When elderly Lucy Dawson is found After the mysterious disappearance of murdered during a trip to Italy, wealthy businesswoman Bridget Kemp, Alan McQueen was once a star of criminologist James Compton launches a wife of Roger, old memories begin the global intelligence personal investigation to find out who coming to the surface. Hadn’t Roger’s community, renowned for being wanted the gentle old woman dead, only first wife also mysteriously disappeared? the Aussie spook who shot and killed Abu to discover that someone will do anything For detective Wycliffe, supposedly Sabaya, the world’s most dangerous to hide the killing. Due Aug (American) recuperating from an illness, it’s all too terrorist. But that was 2002. Now, during a intriguing for him to ignore. Due Aug routine assignment, McQueen discovers Lilian Jackson BRAUN that Sabaya is not dead. Due Aug The Cat Who had Sixty Whiskers Wycliffe and the Redhead (Australian) 240pp Pb $19.95 (1997) 256pp Pb $19.95 #29. Simon BECKETT Moose County, Simon Meagor was a lonely middle-aged Written on the Bone 400 miles north of man. With a broken marriage behind him, 304pp Tp $32.95 everywhere, is in an his life was centred on his antiquarian uproar (good and bookshop. In his past was the memory of Dr David Hunter #2. Forensics bad) following vast a murder trial where his evidence had anthropologist David Hunter is asked to inheritances from resulted in the conviction of a man who examine a fire-death on a remote wealthy old families. subsequently killed himself. Now, to his Hebridean island. Warned that it will be Only ‘Cool Koko’ horror, the daughter of that man was unlike anything else he has encountered, knows what’s applying for a job in his shop and, almost Hunter and the police go straight to the happening - and he’s mesmerised by her, Simon found he was body. It is indeed unusual: almost totally not telling. Jim agreeing to her employment. But when incinerated except for one hand and both Qwilleran thinks it’s her body was discovered in a flooded feet, which have been left untouched by because he has more whiskers than quarry everything pointed to murder the fire... Due Aug (Scottish) ordinary cats, but who’s counting? Due and, inevitably, suspicion fell on Simon KEY Aug (American) Meagor. Wycliffe became increasingly academic Ken BRUEN disturbed by a case which grew more and Ammunition 272pp Pb $29.00 more complicated as he explored many banking Inspector Brant #7. Over the many dark and murky secrets from the past. years that Inspector Brant has been Due Aug (English) canine detectives bringing his own patented brand of Tom CAIN policing to the streets of southeast The Accident Man clerical London, the brilliant, tough cop has made 384pp Tp $32.95 a few enemies. So when a crazed Meet ‘the Accident cosy/malice domestic gunman, hired by persons unknown, Man’. Samuel Carver pumps a magazine full of bullets into is a good guy who culinary/food Brant in a local pub, leaving him in makes bad things grasping at life (but ornery as ever), his happen to bad people. fbi colleagues on the squad are left Ex-SAS, now freelance wondering how to react. Due Aug (Irish) mercenary, he is the feline detectives Alafair BURKE frontline weapon of ‘the Consortium’, a forensic Dead Connection 320pp Tp $32.95 black-ops British government outfit. Or horse racing mystery Ellie Hatcher #1. Alafair Burke is it? Carver is called to do a hit at very medical (daughter of James short notice. Do this job for us and be paid Lee Burke) hits the very well. Refuse and you better run and military ground running hide. He believes the target to be a high- with her first stand- ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to native american alone pulse- organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. pounder featuring a But Carver is being set up. When he police procedural female cop in a New discovers the real identity of his target, York City setting. and more importantly the identity of the political/legal “Burke handles the target’s female companion, he knows one various threads of thing - his life is over. Due Aug (American) psychological her story with aplomb, her characters are Lindy CAMERON believable, her plotting is right on the Scarlett Stiletto: The First Cut private eye button.” - Irish Times. Due Aug (American) Tp $29.95 James Lee BURKE This is a superb collection of spine- romantic suspense The Tin Roof Blowdown chilling crime fiction stories culled from 384pp Tp $32.95 the annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards. You’ll sport Robicheaux #16. Burke’s latest Dave find the whole gamut, from murder and mayhem to police procedurals, right here. spy Robicheaux novel is a powerful evocation of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating Some will have your blood running cold, some will raise gooseflesh, as well as a suspense/thriller effects on his beloved New Orleans. Due Aug (American) chuckle, but all will have you on the edge AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB of your seat, wanting more. (Australian)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 John CARBONE Thomas COOK Michael DIBDIN Last of the Good Guys The Murmur of Stones Blood Rain (1999) 320pp Tp $32.95 336pp Pb $22.95 284pp Pb $12.95 All Marco wants is to be a stand-up guy; Brilliant and intense, Diana grew up Aurelio Zen #7. The discovery of an to make his way in the world without too caring for her schizophrenic father, and unidentified, decomposed corpse in a much trouble. Right? But in 1970s New when her own son, Jason, is diagnosed as railway wagon marks the beginning of York, that’s not so easy. Marco has the suffering from the same affliction, she Zen’s most difficult and dangerous case. Mafia in his blood and, at only 16, he devotes herself to the quietly heroic Set against the backdrop of the 3,000- hears the streets calling. So he goes into responsibility of caring for a child who year-old city of Catalina, in the shadow of business with a few guys, dealing a little will never be ordinary - a fact that Mark, Mount Etna, this is Zen at his most pot. Then his ruthless Uncle Tony gets her husband, finds hard to accept. When desperate and driven. Due Aug (English) involved... Due Aug (American) Diana leaves Jason alone with his father Ake EDWARDSON Stephen CARTER for just a few hours and on her return Frozen Tracks 464pp Tp $35.00 New England White finds her son has drowned, she just can’t Eric Winter #3. It’s autumn in 576pp Tp $32.95 believe the coroner’s conclusion that her Gothenburg. An anxious mother calls the Carter returns to the New England son’s death was accidental. Due Aug police; it seems her little boy was lured university town of Elm Harbor, where the (American) into a car by a man offering sweets, then murder of a renowned African-American Vena CORK returned unharmed. The same happens economist opens a door on the racial Green Eye 512pp Pb $19.95 with a little girl, then another... Due Aug complications of the town’s past, on one The hedonistic lifestyle of University Never End 320pp Pb $21.95 family’s secrets, and on the most hidden students can seem an enviable one. But Eric Winter #2. It is late when 19- and powerful bastions of African- right now Danny Thorn - enrolled at year-old Jeanette bids goodbye to her American political influence. Due Aug Billings College Cambridge - can see little friends and sets off for home. She takes a (American) to be jealous of. Danny’s got woman shortcut through a city park, a decision Jackie CHANCE troubles - his ex, Julie, won’t leave him that will add hours to her journey. Next Death on the Flop 256pp Pb $9.95 alone and the beguiling Stella doesn’t morning, the police come to question The First Poker Mystery. When Belinda seem to be interested in him. But as the Jeanette about her rape but, in Cooley agrees to go with her twin term progresses, getting a date for the desperation, she has already scoured all brother, Ben, to Las Vegas for an amateur May Ball will be the least of his worries. A traces of the crime away. Chief Inspector Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, she never rapist, who has been preying on female Erik Winter and his colleagues are expects to actually gamble - and students for months, is still at large. And reminded of a rape and murder case that definitely not with her brother’s life. But a potentially deadly case of the green- remains unsolved after five years. Could after Ben mysteriously disappears from eyed monster is about to rear its ugly this be the work of the same person? Due his hotel room, Belinda must take his head. Due Aug (English) Aug (Swedish) place at the table and play her way to the Avery CORMAN Nancy FAIRBANKS final round. Due Aug (American) The Boyfriend from Hell Bon Bon Voyage Shane CHRISTOPHER 256pp Pb $29.00 304pp Pb $15.95 Nowhere 312pp Pb $14.95 Her life turned inside Culinary Mystery #8. Even if she must With their last near-death out by a new share a cabin with her mother-in-law, investigation behind them, Detective relationship with a food columnist Carolyn Blue admits it’s a David Rodriguez and reporter Mari dazzling, charismatic terrific Mother’s Day present: passage on Kinsella must take on another bizarre man, freelance writer the Bountiful Feast, a gourmet cruise ship case - his time a NYC killer who seems to Veronica McBride sailing to the Canary Islands. But when a be from another time and place. Due Aug becomes increasingly female passenger disappears at a port In Dreams 281pp Pb $14.95 perplexed and then stop and a corpse turns up on board, it’s When five strangers are found fearful of his dual clear to Carolyn that the Bountiful Feast is tortured to death in the cellar of a seedy nature, which is by sailing headlong into very dangerous New York apartment, reporter Mari turns loving and supportive or non- waters. And if that’s not enough, there’s a Kinsella makes a startling connection: the committal and manipulative. Due Aug terrifying shortage of double chocolate strange dreams that bound the victims in (American) raspberry mousse. (American) life - and in death. Dreams that Mari Adrian D’HAGE Dan FESPERMAN herself is beginning to have. Due Aug The Beijing Conspiracy Tp $32.95 The Amateur Spy (American) From China’s western-most province, 432pp Tp $32.95 Michael CONNELLY near its border with Pakistan, comes this Freeman Lockhart is working for his old Echo Park 400pp Pb $19.95 deadly ultimatum. In the White House friend Omar in Amman, Jordan, and is Bosch #12. In 1993, Harry Bosch Situation Room, the President and his spying on him too. Hoping to prevent his was assigned the case of a missing team dismiss it as one of thousands of own secrets from ever coming to light, person, Marie Gesto. The young woman threats made against the US every week. Freeman has agreed to report back on his was never found - dead or alive - and the But CIA agent Curtis O’Connor isn’t so friend to a clandestine agency interested case has haunted Bosch ever since. sure. The man making the warning is Dr in Omar’s finances. Meanwhile, in Bosch’s whole being as a cop begins to Khalid Kadeer, a brilliant Muslim Washington DC, Aliyah Rahim is spying crack when he comes to realise that he microbiologist. As an expert on on her husband Abbas. A brilliant doctor, and his partner missed a clue back in 1993 bioterrorism, O’Connor knows Kadeer Abbas is crushed by the death of their which could have led them to the killer isn’t bluffing. So too does Kate daughter, which he blames on the post- and would have stopped the nine Braithwaite. She works in a hot-zone 9/11 mood of hostility towards Arab- murders that followed the killing of laboratory, on the USA’s own top secret Americans. Aliyah fears he may be Marie Gesto... Due Aug (American) biological weapons. If the results of Kate’s planning a terrifying act of revenge. Due research fall into the wrong hands, billions Aug (American) of people will die… Due Aug (Australian)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Dan FESPERMAN Batya GUR David HEWSON The Prisoner of Guantanamo Murder in Jerusalem The Seventh Sacrament 512pp Pb $19.95 416pp Pb $29.95 474pp Pb $19.95 Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who A Michael Ohayon Mystery. When film “There’s an entire believes it is possible to get more from a designer Tirzah Rubin is crushed to death underground city terrorist suspect by treating him decently on the set of her director-husband’s latest down there - houses than by using more ‘robust’ methods. He film, Chief Superintendent Michael and temples, entire lives his life by a certain code of honour. Ohayon launches an investigation that streets. I talked to a This puts him in a minority at links the woman’s murder to a larger couple of the cavers Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So when the network of social and political unrest and Leo called in. They body of a US soldier is found under violence. Due Aug (Israeli) hero-worshipped mysterious circumstances on the beach, Thomas HARRIS Giorgio. The man had and a high-ranking investigative team is Hannibal Rising 336pp Pb $21.95 been to places the rest flown in, Falk should be above suspicion. He is one of the most haunting of them could only But Falk has a secret, a secret he had characters in all of literature. At last, the dream about.” Giorgio Bramante, a hoped was dead and buried. Due Aug evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Roman archaeology professor, was (American) Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the master of the hidden world beneath the Joseph FINDER Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, earth until the day he lost his young son, Killer Instinct 480pp Pb $19.95 with a chain around his neck. He seems Alessio, to a group of students intent on Jason Steadman is a 30-year-old sales utterly alone, but has brought his demons re-creating a centuries-old ritual to a executive living in Boston. He’s a witty, with him. Hannibal’s uncle, a noted long-banished god. Due Aug (English) charismatic guy who’s well liked at the painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage Susan HILL office, but he lacks the ‘killer instinct’ and brings him to France. Hannibal lives The Rise of Darkness Pb $21.95 necessary to reach the top. But all that with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful Simon Serrailler #3. Hill follows up the changes one evening when Jason meets and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, who child abduction and explores the crazy Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces helps Hannibal to heal. With her help, he grief of a widowed husband, a officer just back from Iraq. Looking for a flourishes, becoming the youngest person derangement that turns to obsession and decent pitcher for the company softball ever admitted to medical school in threats, violence and terror. Meanwhile, team, Jason gets Kurt, who was once France. But his demons visit him and handsome, introverted Simon Serrailler, drafted by the majors, a job in security. torment him. When he is old enough, he whose cool reserve has broken the hearts Soon, good things start to happen for visits them in turn. He discovers he has of several women, finds his own heart Jason - and bad things start to happen to gifts beyond the academic and, in that troubled by a feisty female priest with red Jason’s rivals… Due Aug (American) epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes hair. Due Aug (English) Allan FOLSOM death’s prodigy. Due Aug (American) Joe HILLEY The Machiavelli Covenant John Twelve HAWKS The Deposition 560pp Tp $32.95 The Dark River 384pp Tp $32.95 256pp Pb $19.95 Nicholas Marten, ex-LAPD detective The Fourth Realm Mike Connolly Mystery. In an attempt to pursues an international conspiracy in #2. Hawks force privileged information from Mike this frenetic page-turner. When an old introduced readers to Connolly, attorneys serve Father Scott love of Marten’s, Caroline Parsons, dies a dangerous world Nolan with a subpoena for a of a mysterious infection shortly after her inspired by the decomposition regarding the events he congressman husband and son perish in a modern technology was part of in the days of the Panama plane accident, her dying words set that monitors our Tanning Salon. Due Aug (American) Marten on the trail of a South African bio- lives. Under constant Jilliane HOFFMAN terrorist. Due Aug (American) surveillance of ‘the Plea of Insanity Frederick FORSYTH Vast Machine’, a 608pp Tp $32.95 Afghan 464pp Pb $21.95 sophisticated Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious When British and American computer network run by a ruthless prosecutor facing a case that could launch intelligence catch wind of a major Al group, society is mostly unaware of its her career. The defendant David Qaeda operation in the works, they are own imprisonment. Gabriel and Michael Marquette is a successful Miami surgeon primed for action - but what can they do? Corrigan, brothers who were raised ‘off and devoted family man. The victims are They know nothing about the attack: the the grid’, have recently learned they are Marquette’s own wife and three small what, where or when. They have no Travelers, just like their long-lost father. children. The plea is not guilty by reason sources in Al Qaeda, and it’s impossible They are part of a centuries-old line of of insanity. But the state suspects to plant someone. Impossible, unless... prophets able to journey to different Marquette’s insanity defence is being Due Aug (American) realms of consciousness and enlighten fabricated to disguise murders that were Joe GORES the world to resist being controlled. Due cold-blooded and calculated. Due Aug Glass Tiger 304pp Pb $19.95 Aug (American) (American) It’s election night in the US. Gustave David HEWSON David HOSP Walberg becomes leader of the free world The Promised Land The Betrayed 432pp Pb $19.95 and legendary Vietnam sniper Halden 400pp Pb $32.95 Washington DC. A woman is Corwin murders his daughter and son-in- Ex-cop Bierce has been in prison for over found murdered in her own home; her law before disappearing into the night. 20 years for the murder of his wife and throat slit, her corpse brutalised, Driven by events that took place over 40 son. He has no memory of the tragedy subjected to the most appalling torture years ago, he now has the President’s and has never been able to say with before she died. A piece of incriminating head in his sights… Due Aug (American) certainty that he didn’t do it, except he evidence leads to the swift arrest of a cannot imagine why on earth he would local drug dealer. Case closed. But local have. Due Aug cop Jack Cassian has questions. Due Aug (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Linda HOWARD Cady KALIAN Simon KERNICK Up Close and Dangerous A Few Good Murders Severed 352pp Tp $35.00 320pp Tp $32.95 256pp Pb $28.00 Ex-soldier Sean Tyler wakes up in an No sooner has Bailey Wingate buried her Maggie Mars is a unfamiliar room next to the headless wealthy older husband than she learns struggling corpse of a girl he’s met only once. With that he has left the bulk of his estate to her screenwriter whose his memory of the previous 24 hours - and not to his scheming grown children. big break is wiped clean, he’s hardly out of bed before A short time later, while flying from happening now. Her he notices a note next to the TV telling Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey latest script is being him to press ‘play’ on the DVD player. nearly dies herself when the engine filmed and Maggie is The footage shows him stabbing someone sputters, then fails. Due Aug (American) on the set. But Maggie to death! Tyler is confident it’s fake, but Peter JAMES thinks the lead actress will a jury see things the same way? Due Not Dead Enough is playing her Aug (English) 400pp Tp $32.95 character all wrong Gene KERRIGAN Roy Grace #3. On the night Brian Bishop and tells her. A screaming match ensues. The Midnight Choir murdered his wife, he was 60 miles away, So when said actress is found dead with 352pp Pb $24.95 asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s her head bashed in (with her own Oscar!), Tense and expertly the way it looks to Detective Maggie is viewed as a ‘person of interest’. plotted, this is a Superintendent Roy Grace who is called And somewhere out there is a killer who stunning portrayal in to investigate the kinky slaying of thinks Maggie is just too clever for her of life on the edge of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie own good. Due Aug (American) society. We enter a Bishop. Soon Grace starts coming to the Stuart KAMINSKY gritty Dublin conclusion that Bishop has performed the CSI NY #3: Deluge landscape of apparently impossible feat of being in 320pp Tp $16.95 characters with two places at once. Has someone stolen High-tech science comes to the Big Apple questionable and his identity, or is he simply a very clever as Detective Mack Taylor (Sinise) and his contrary ideals, all liar? Due Aug partner, Detective Stella Bonasera struggling to survive Truth 544pp Pb $17.95 (Kanakaredes), lead a team of dedicated, in a time and place Susan and John Carter are crazy about case-cracking experts in the gritty, kinetic that is constantly knocking them back. each other and life is perfect, but for one city. Mack and his colleagues have no less Everyone has an axe to grind; criminals thing – they’re on the brink of financial than three pressing cases to solve: a series and police alike live by their own code, disaster. Surely being a surrogate mother of grisly murders in which the victims all with both sides resorting to desperate to another man’s child won’t harm such a seem to have an unusual connection; the measures as a means to an end. Due Aug strong relationship? Due Aug (English) puzzling death of a teacher on the upper (Irish) Quintin JARDINE west side and the suspicious collapse of Dean KOONTZ Death’s Door 416pp Pb $24.95 an entire building, which puts one of the Husband 464pp Pb $20.00 #17. The nation’s sharpest cop, team in deadly danger. Due Aug Landscape gardener Mitchell Rafferty DCC Bob Skinner, desperately wants to (American) was busy planting beds of impatiens for stop a serial killer... When two young Gordon KENT one of his clients when his phone rang. It female artists are murdered in what looks The Falconer’s Tale was a voice he didn’t know. “We have like ritualistic killings, the pressure is on 400pp Tp $33.00 your wife. You can get her back for two to find a highly professional murderer. Jerry Piat has been on the run from the million cash.” Now he’s standing in a Due Aug (Scottish) FBI for two years, but he’s about to be normal suburban neighbourhood on a Paul JOHNSTON made an offer he cannot refuse. Clyde bright summer day having a phone The Death List 416pp Pb $29.95 Partlow an upper CIA executive needs conversation out of his darkest Writer’s block is nothing compared him for a mission that involves a member nightmare. Mitch thinks it must be some to the sinister assignment London-based of the Saudi ruling clique, a fearsome kind of a joke. But whoever is on the other novelist Matt Wells has just received. A man who’s been cheating his own end of the line is deadly serious. “See that chain of seemingly innocent emails from associates out of their funding for guy across the street?” A gunshot shatters a devoted fan turns deadly when Matt terrorism against the West - and using the the stillness as the man goes down, shot discovers the correspondent is a cold- money for his own personal profit. Piat’s in the head. “An object lesson,” says the blooded killer with an agenda for job is to entice former agent Digger voice. Due Aug murder, and his family and friends are Hackbutt into working for the CIA again. The Good Guy 400pp Tp $33.00 among the scheduled victims. Due Aug Hackbutt will use his exemplary skills as After a day’s work hefting brick and (Scottish) a falconer as bait for the Saudi aristocrat, stone, Tim Carrier slakes his thirst at The which in turn will hatch a daring plan for Lamplighter Tavern. Nothing heavy blackmail. Due Aug (American) happens there. It’s a friendly working Jack KERLEY man’s bar, run by his good friend The Broken Souls Rooney, who enjoys gathering eccentric 544pp Pb $20.00 customers. Working his deadpan humour Blood was everywhere, like the interior on strangers is, for Tim, all part of the had been hosed down with an artery! The entertainment. But how could Tim have gore-sodden horror that greets homicide imagined that the stranger who sits down detective Carson Ryder on a late-night next to him one evening is about to callout is enough to make him want to unmake his world and enmesh him in a quit the case. Too late. Now he and his web of murder and deceit? Due Aug partner Harry are up to their necks in a (American) Southern swamp of the bizarre and disturbing. Due Aug (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 John LE CARRE Barry MAITLAND Deon MEYER The Mission Song 384pp Pb $24.95 Spider Trap 368pp Pb $19.95 Devil’s Peak 416pp Tp $32.95 Interpreter Bruno Salvador, known to Brock & Kolla #9. Skeletons are Bennie Griessel friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the discovered in Cockpit Lane, a poor black may be losing his ever-innocent, 29-year-old orphaned area of inner south London, and DCI battle with alcohol but love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of he still knows enough and a Congolese headman’s daughter. Scotland Yard’s Serious Crimes Branch to head up the police Despatched to a no-name island in the are called in to investigate. The discovery team tracking North Sea to attend a top-secret meeting that the victims died on the day of the ‘Artemis’, a vigilante between Western financiers and East Brixton riots, over 20 years before, lead killer who targets child Congolese warlords, Salvo is obliged to Brock and Kolla on a dark and dangerous murderers. The killer interpret matters never intended for his journey into the heart of the West Indian is in fact Thobela re-awoken African conscience. Due Aug community in London - a journey in Mpayipheli, a former (English) which past and present come together in freedom fighter robbed of everything by Laura LIPPMAN an intricate web of deception and the murder of his son. And when What the Dead Know intrigue, as Brock re-discovers the hand Griessel’s daughter is kidnapped, his 384pp Tp $32.95 of a formidable old antagonist, Spider world and Thobela’s converge towards a A middle-aged woman causes an Roach. Due Aug (Australian) devastating climax. Due Aug (South accident on the Baltimore Beltway, flees P D MARTIN African) the scene, then is picked up wandering on The Murderer’s Club Pb $19.95 Walter MOSLEY the shoulder of the interstate. The Sophie Anderson #2. FBI profiler Sophie Fear of the Dark 288pp Tp $29.95 accident occurs just a mile from the Anderson is still trying to come to terms Fearless Jones and Paris Minton return former home of the Bethany family - Dave with the horrors she experienced six in a high-velocity thriller about family, and Miriam and their daughters Sunny months ago. A vacation to Arizona is a betrayal, and revenge. “I’m in trouble, and Heather. 30 years before, 12-year-old welcome break. But then the bodies start Paris.” Paris Minton has heard these Heather had persuaded her older sister appearing on the campus, crudely posed words before. They mean only one thing: Sunny to let her tag along on a visit to the and inscribed with a vivid love heart on that his neck is on the line too. So when mall. Neither girl has been seen since. their chests. But she learns there is more they are uttered by his lowlife cousin Now the woman on the Beltway claims to than one killer. Due Aug (Australian) Ulysses S Grant, Paris keeps the door to be Heather Bethany! Due Aug (American) Nigel McCRERY his bookshop firmly closed… Due Aug Robert LITTELL Still Waters 352pp Tp $29.95 (American) The Amateur: A Novel of Revenge Driving home from a late Maya Yxta MURRAY 256pp Pb $29.00 meeting, a businessman loses The King’s Gold 320pp Pb $29.00 In this “first-rate thriller” (Chicago Tribune), concentration, crashes off the road and is A follow-up to the series that began Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for flung through the windscreen of his car. with The Queen Jade (Tp $29) finds the Company. He’s a quiet man with a His dying view is of what he thinks is the bookstore owner Lola hired to investigate quiet job in a back office. But when angel of death. The next morning, the exploits of a 15th century alchemist terrorists shoot his fiancée in cold blood, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie whose life was marked by the legend of and he learns the Agency has decided not and Sergeant Emma Bradbury are called the conquistador Hernan Cortes and to pursue those responsible, his life takes to the scene of the accident. Lapslie’s rumours about his dual identity as a an abrupt turn. He was not a blackmailer, investigations put him on the trail of a werewolf. Due Aug (American) but he will force the CIA’s hand. He was serial killer who, it soon becomes clear, Barbara NADEL not an assassin, but he will penetrate the has struck again and again, moving from A Passion for Killing Iron Curtain with intent to kill. Driven by victim to victim, stealing their lives, 352pp Pb $19.95 an obsessive need for revenge, and possessions and identities. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 Liz PORTER Written on the Skin 432pp Pb $24.95 Porter’s riveting case book shows how forensic investigators, including pathologists, chemists and entomologists, have used their expertise in dozens of fascinating crimes and mysteries. Due Aug (Australian) Mark Brandon READ Chopper #11: The Last Man Standing 216pp Pb $19.95 Laced with black humour and wisdom borne from gritty experience, Chopper Read again raises the standard of the true crime genre. Due Aug (Australian) Tony REEVES Mr Big: Lennie McPherson and His Life of Crime 288pp Pb $24.95 Meet Lennie McPherson, the man who came to be known as the Mr Big of Australian crime. Brutality punctuated his whole life. Corruption was his mark. He was a standover man, a murderer, a rapist and a thief. He ran crooked police and corrupt politicians. He was involved in drugs and prostitution. He did business with the Mafia and the CIA. Reeves uncovers a heart of evil and takes us deep into a dark and violent criminal world. It is a story that could only be told after Lennie’s death. Due Aug Mr Sin: The Abe Saffron Dossier 300pp Pb $24.95 Reeves has been gathering information on Abe Saffron for over 40 years, an activity that didn’t go unnoticed by Saffron, who tried to entrap Reeves in a bribery/blackmail sting. Upon Saffron’s death in September 2006, Reeves could finally, and safely, reveal all. And what a story it is! Far from being the innocent businessman he claimed to be, Saffron led a life that reads like that of a real-life Godfather. He trafficked in drugs, ran prostitution and gambling rings, was a master of bribery, a corrupter of police, politicians and the judiciary, and not averse to extreme violence. This book makes for shocking and disturbing reading, and will leave readers in no doubt that Saffron well and truly deserved the moniker ‘Mr Sin’. Due Aug (Australian) David STANNARD Honor Killing: Race, Rape and Clarence Darrow’s Spectacular Last Case 446pp Pb $26.95 In 1931 in Hawaii, Thalia Massie, the aristocratic wife of a naval officer, accused five non-white men of gang rape. When the trial ended in a hung jury, her mother arranged for one of the suspects to be murdered - an act sanctioned by sympathetic whites as an ‘honour killing’. The ensuing murder trial, Clarence Darrow’s last, enthralled the nation and exposed the shocking realities of a Hawaiian paradise. Due Aug (American) Peter VRONSKY Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters Pb $30.00 496pp Society is conditioned to think of murderers and predators as men, but in this title, the author exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill and the political, economic, social and sexual implications. From history's earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain's notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to 'Honeymoon Killer' Martha Beck, from the sensational murder-spree of Aileen Wournos, to cult killers, homicidal missionaries and the sexy femme fatale, the author challenges the ordinary standards of good and evil and defies the accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. Due Aug (American)

Crime Chronicle is compiled and edited by Peter Milne and Ann Leahy