ALL THAT I AM

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his month the whole of September is Vintage Classics TGet Reading! Head to 131 York Street Notes from Eve Abbey... The Magus or abbeys.com.au to see the list of books. If "The Greene family was indeed John Fowles talented and quirky. Several you buy one of the books listed in the free A disillusioned English guide called 50 Books You Can't Put Down, members were spies (are you surprised?), one was Director teacher, Nicholas Urfe, you can choose either a FREE collection of takes up a teaching short stories by some of Australia's leading General of the BBC, another was a mountaineer..." [ read on, page 18 ] job on a remote Greek authors, or a FREE children's book. Craig (Ed.) island. Here he becomes entangled in the psychological games of a certain Maurice Conchis. Fowles creates a philosophical puzzle that has us searching Indigenous Literacy Day for clues and answers in tandem with Urfe. Wednesday 7 September This is one of those books that, if read at the Abbey's Vintage Classic Busk-a-thon appropriate time in your life, has a residue and will feature celebrity readers along poignancy that will last forever. And it's just with Abbey's customers, as well as a the sort of book that demands to be reread... sausage sizzle, so please join us on the and thanks to Google you don’t have to remain day and throw a few dollars towards bewildered by the final Latin quote. Greg the great efforts of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. See our website for more details. early bird SPECIAL One* As last month's Abbey's Advocate went to press, Wild one of our treasured booksellers was accepting the Due in-store 10 October Australian Booksellers Association's Text Publishing A new novel from the Bookseller of the Year Award. Pulitzer Prize-winning, Those who know Lindy were not surprised by the and bestselling, author accolade, with her 16 years of helping customers of Middlesex (Pb $24.95) find just the right book. and The Virgin Suicides (Pb $23.95). While the jury And it won't be a surprise that she reads a lot, may be out on whether always having at least six books on the go, plus Eugenides managed to another ten with bookmarks to 'get back to'! reach the dizzying heights but very approachable Where does she find the time? No TV, for starters... of Middlesex, he has written a well-crafted, * witty book – a 1980s-set update of the Her Father's Daughter Alice Pung classic English marriage novel. Alice Pung’s first book Unpolished Gem (304pp Pb $26.95) won A literary page-turner of love and literary the Australian book industry's Newcomer of the Year Award theory – though you only need a passing and was nominated for the Victorian and New South Wales knowledge of either to appreciate the skill Premier’s Literary Awards. – it certainly kept me engaged. One to read. Adrian 440pp Tp $29.99 Alice’s new book digs deep into her father’s story, embarking on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the future, of history and how it echoes Pre-order now. Only $22.99 down the years. 256pp Tp $29.95 Hurry! Offer ends 30 September

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Penguin is releasing a new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books. Being published in chronological EVELYN WAUGH order throughout the year, the books feature an revisited elegant new jacket and text design. Quite striking!

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Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel Barry Nanberry: Black Brother White Michael Gerard Bauer Colin Thompson Jackie French 327pp Pb $19.99 32pp Hb $24.95 309pp Pb $16.99 Ishmael Leseur, nice-guy Barry might look small Told from the perspective but foot-in-mouth hero of and insignificant, but of different characters, Don't Call Me Ishmael and size isn't everything. He this is the sort of well- Ishmael and the Return is small, but his brain researched novel Jackie of the Dugongs (pb is not only massive, it French does so well. $19.99) is back, this time controls the world. He Nanberry is a young in senior school. Along came to Earth in 1952, boy from the Cadigal with his great friends, but fell down the back of a sofa where he got people, at the time of the the fearless Scobie, geek stuck; not that it mattered, he was still able arrival of the white-ghost extraordinaire Ignatius, to do his work. It is only when he is retrieved strangers. Within months quiet Bill and of course the irrepressible, that he realises some of the messages got his family and other clan members have died wonderful Razz, Ishmael has to navigate the scrambled, so he implements his emergency from some unknown disease and the white- tricky world of adolescence, girls, Hamlet and mode… Another sophisticated and subversive ghosts have taken him in. His protective competitive point scoring. Not to mention picture book from the master of the unusual foster father is Surgeon White of the First a friend's surprising admission, the pitfalls image and seemingly simple text. Boys Fleet, who is a good man amongst villains. of playing volleyball and talent quests. I'm from age 6 upwards (and plenty of adults) With the viewpoints of two young convict pleased I was reading this in private, as it particularly enjoy his books! women, the Surgeon, Nanberry and Andrew, would have been too embarrassing to laugh White's natural son, this is a fine tale of so loudly in public! An absolute delight. treading between cultures, both black and white. Ages 10-14 A Sick Day for Amos McGee The Golden Door Philip & Erin Stead 32pp Hb $19.99 Emily Rodda 272pp Pb $16.99 Amos is a zookeeper, with set routines and The first in theThree Doors trilogy, this is one the plenty to fill his workday, but he always fans will love! Weld is a walled town where rules are makes time for his good friends. One day paramount for good order. It is under attack by nocturnal he wakes up with a cold and doesn't go creatures which wreak destruction and cause chaos, so to work. His friends – the elephant, the the Warden calls for volunteers to venture out past the rhinoceros, the tortoise, the penguin and the walls to put an end to the enemy's actions. Rye is too owl – catch the bus and visit him, to repay young to go himself, but both of his brothers answer the his many kind acts. A sweet little story with call, and then fail to return. He knows they're in danger delicate and expressive illustrations. Winner and sets off to save them, accompanied by a feisty young of the prestigious Caldecott Medal for picture girl. Confronted by the choice of three doors, he picks the book illustration. Ages 3-6 golden one… Ages 9-13

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Abbey’s Bookshop 5 131 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 Crimea Emperor of the West HISTORY Orlando Figes Charlemagne and The Crimean War the Carolingian Empire Abbey's Matilda Choice dominated the mid-19th Hywel Williams Queen of the Conqueror century, killing at least Charlemagne is a Tracy Borman 800,000 men and pitting defining figure of both Matilda, wife of William Russia against a coalition Western Europe and the the Conqueror, was of Britain, France and Middle Ages. Crowned the first woman to the Ottoman Empire. It king of the Franks in be crowned Queen of was a war for territory 768, he expanded their England and formally and religion and the first kingdoms into an empire recognised as such by conflict to be extensively that included much of her subjects. Beyond this, photographed. Orlando Figes re-imagines western and central Europe - recreating a though, little is known of this extraordinary war, in which the stakes single Christian imperium in the heartlands her life. 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abbeys.com.au 6 Ph (02) 9264 3111 Fax (02) 9264 8993 “Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #307 September 2011

NEW BLOOD TRUE CRIME

Jo Nesbo Fiona Harari Headhunters A Tragedy in Two Acts Roger Brown has it all. Marcus Einfeld He’s the country’s most and Teresa Brennan successful headhunter. This was not the ending He has a beautiful wife either of them expected. and a magnificent house. Kerry Marcus Einfeld, former And to maintain this Greenwood Federal Court judge lifestyle, he’s also a highly and human rights accomplished art thief. Medea Delphic Women #1 champion and his old At a gallery opening, Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the friend Teresa Brennan, an his wife introduces him Golden Fleece. Her very name is a byword exuberant, sometimes to Clas Greve, who is in possession of ‘The for infamy. Legend has it that she murdered controversial US-based academic, had each Calydonian Boar Hunt’ by Rubens - one of the her own children for revenge. But love in spent years establishing demanding careers and most sought-after paintings in the world. Roger Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; international reputations, to create two lives starts planning his boldest heist yet. But he will and legends are not always what they seem. that, on paper at least, exuded success. soon run into trouble... and this time money is Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a Then Einfeld was caught speeding. But rather the least of his worries! loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and than pay a small fine, the former judge told a [Norwegian, Suspense] 272pp Tp $29.95 a brave adventurer with the Argonauts. A court that Brennan had been driving his car. In woman both betrayer and betrayed, the real reality she had been dead for three years. story of Medea is strange, sensual and heroic. [Australian, Historical] 432pp Pb $29.99 Through a chain of events that at times seemed exceedingly unlikely, Einfeld’s lie was exposed, with unimaginable consequences. His world and virtually every honour he had earned rapidly Christopher Fowler Louise Penny disappeared. And his old friend Brennan, who Bryant and May A Trick of the Light had died in suspicious circumstances, was Off the Rails In the green depths of suddenly, posthumously, attracting attention for Bryant and May #8 spring, morning breaks all the wrong reasons. Arthur Bryant, John May on a woman splayed in a This is the remarkable story of two outstanding and the Peculiar Crimes bed of flowers ? her eyes Australians whose lives have been lived large Unit are on the trail of wide, her neck broken. and who, ultimately, have been bound by a young man called Her death is a mystery; tragedy. Mr Fox. All they know so is the woman herself. [Australian, True Crime] 272pp Tp $34.99 is that somehow he But as Chief Inspector escaped from a locked Armand Gamache and his room and murdered one team peer into the dark of their best. Now the detectives are being corners of the victim’s past, they expose a secret lured into the darkest recesses of the London that rots at the very heart of their community Underground where their quarry has struck ? a secret that will implicate someone they’ve again. Their search takes them into the vast trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too Abbey’s offersfree gift labyrinth of tunnels, a subterranean world full of well, in the flickering shadows of death, the wrapping with every purchase legends and ghost stations which link the city. truth may be just a trick of the light. [English, Police Proc.] 384pp Pb $24.95 [Canadian, Police Proc.] 252pp Tp $29.99

Val McDermid Anna Dean Kathy Reichs The Retribution A Woman of Flash and Bones Tony Hill Consequence Temperance Brennan #14 & Carol Jordan #7 Dido Kent #3 Just as 200,000 fans are There is one serial killer Madderstone Abbey, pouring into town for Race who has shaped and 1806. When Penelope Week, a body is found in defined the life of police Lambe suffers a bad fall, a barrel of asphalt next profiler Tony Hill. And some are sure she saw to the Charlotte Motor now Jacko Vance is back the Grey Nun, the ghost Speedway. The next day, in Tony’s life. Even more reputed to walk the a NASCAR crew member twisted and cunning than ruins. Unconvinced, Miss comes to Temperance before, he is focused on Dido Kent determines to Brennan’s office to share wreaking revenge on uncover the real cause a devastating story. 12 years earlier, Wayne Tony and DCI Carol Jordan for the years he spent of the accident. Then events take a sinister turn Gamble’s sister Cindi disappeared with her in prison. Tony doesn’t know when Jacko will when a human skeleton is found nearby. The boyfriend Cale Lovette. Could the body be Cindi strike, or where. All he knows is that Jacko will remains are identified as those of a Miss Elinor or Cale? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the cause him to feel fear like he has never known Fenn, and letters come to light which suggest discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the before... and will devastate his life in ways he the reason for her death. But how is Miss barrel alongside the body throws everything cannot imagine! Lambe’s accident connected to this discovery? into question... [Scottish, Police Proc.] 416pp Tp $32.99 [English, Historical] 384pp Pb $17.99 [American, Forensic] 304pp Tp $32.95 ph 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8993 7 Abbey’s Bookshop Stephanie Barron Sean Black Jane and the Grid Lock MODERN CRIME Canterbury Tale Adult movie actress, Jane Austen Mystery #11 Raven Lane, is one of Three years after news of the most lusted after her scandalous husband’s women in California, with Susan Wittig Albert death, Adelaide Fiske is millions of fans to prove at the altar again. The it. But none seem to be The Tale of prospects seem bright for more dedicated in their Oat Cake Crag one of the most notorious pursuit of her than the Cottage Tale women in Kent - until Jane murderous stalker who of Beatrix Potter #7 Austen discovers is carving a demonic Miss Beatrix Potter has a corpse on her brother’s estate. Jane reluctantly swathe across the streets of Los Angeles in an returned to Near Sawrey, assists her brother in the investigation and apparent bid to get her attention. With the LAPD seeking refuge from the soon discovers deep mysteries. It seems that seemingly unable to protect her, Raven turns bluster of London. But Adelaide’s previous husband has returned to elite bodyguard, Ryan Lock for help. Lock is it is 1912 and Winston for the new couple’s nuptials - only this time, drawn into a web of deceit and seduction and Churchill is said to be genuinely, profoundly dead. But when a second events spiral swiftly out of control as those preparing for war. At the corpse appears on the estate, Jane has no choice closest to Lock begin to pay a bloody price for same time, Beatrix’s friend but to confront a murderer, lest the next corpse his involvement and Lock is seeks revenge. Grace Lythecoe has been receiving anonymous be her own! [American, Cosy] 320pp Pb $23.95 [Scottish, Suspense] 400pp Tp $32.95 letters, threatening her good name and her plans to marry. Beatrix must investigate quietly Sydney Bauer Rhys Bowen so as not to arouse village gossip. There is also The 3rd Victim Royal Blood the matter of Beatrix’s own romantic future David Cavanaugh #6 when she’s offered a second chance at love. Royal Spyness #4 [American, Cosy] 304pp Pb $13.50 A widowed mother. A Penniless and 34th in line blood-soaked nursery. to the throne, Georgiana A missing baby. When David Armstrong Rannoch finds herself David Cavanaugh hears in a truly draining state A Pact of Silence of this heinous crime, he of affairs. To escape her DI Frank Kavanagh #6 knows immediately he hateful brother, Georgie In the long, hot summer of doesn’t want to touch accepts an invitation from 1969, two young men are it. The mother’s guilt is the Queen to represent involved in the accidental obvious to all, however the royals at a wedding killing of their boss in a Cavanaugh is unwittingly drawn into the case in Transylvania. But at Shropshire market town. and appointed to the defence to prove the the macabre-looking castle, Georgie finds the Traumatised, they conceal mother’s innocence, but time is running out. bride with blood running down her chin and a his body but leave behind A vicious attack on David’s family proves they’re wedding guest poisoned. Now it’s up to Georgie a vital clue. Four decades on the right track but it also seems that this time to save the festivities before the couple’s vows later, DI Frank Kavanagh David has taken on the one case that will be become ‘to love and to cherish, till undeath do and DC Jane Salt’s relationship is in trouble. impossible to win. we part’. [English, Suspense] 336pp Pb $13.50 Jane is desperate to escape the bad atmosphere [Australian, Legal] 488pp Tp $32.99 between them and runs to a friend’s home in James Lee Burke that same Shropshire town... only to find herself Mark Billingham in peril! [English, Police Proc.] 224pp Pb $24.95 Good as Dead The Glass Rainbow DI Tom Thorne #10 Detective Dave Robicheaux #18 Linwood Barclay Police officer Helen When Dave Robicheaux The Accident Weeks walks into her local newsagent’s on her way gets the call saying his ex- The recession has been to work. Little does she partner Clete Purcel is in bad for Glen Barber’s know that this simple jail for felony assault and construction business in daily ritual will change her resisting arrest, bailing the small town of Milford, life forever when she is him out is instinctive. especially after a fire taken hostage. The crazed After all, Clete is the man destroys his buildings. But gunman is desperate to who saved Dave’s life his troubles escalate when know what really happened to his beloved son by carrying him down a fire escape with two his wife Sheila is the cause who died a year before while in youth custody. bullets in his back. But Clete’s latest escapade of a drink-driving accident Holding a police officer at gunpoint will force is the assault of a big-time pimp, meth dealer that takes three lives, the one man who knows the most about the and murder suspect who is hiding his criminal including her own. As he looks deeper into the case to re-investigate his son’s death. That man activities behind a charity front. As Dave probes circumstances of the accident, he realises just is DI Tom Thorne. While Weeks fights to stay alive the charity, he finds that its sponsor is the how many secrets lurk behind Milford’s idyllic the body-count rises and Thorne races time to smooth-talking scion of a wealthy family. He façade. [Canadian, Suspense] 400pp Tp $29.99 bring a killer to justice and save a mother’s life. also happens to be Dave’s daughter’s boyfriend. [English, Police Proc.] 400pp Tp $32.99 [American, Police Proc.] 544pp Pb $22.99 Robert Barnard A Stranger Benjamin Black Barbara Cleverly in the Family A Death in Summer Strange Images At age three, Kit Philipson Quirke Dublin #4 of Death was abducted during a Newspaper magnate Det. Joe Sandilands #8 family holiday in Italy. Richard Jewell is found Provence, 1926. Scotland He grew up adored by dead at his country estate, Yard Detective Joe his adopted parents, but clutching a shotgun in his Sandilands is on leave as his mother lay dying lifeless hands and few see when a crime committed she confessed her secret his demise as cause for at the chateau has and gave him the details sorrow. But Doctor Quirke everyone in a panic. Then of his real mother. Isla and Inspector Hackett a child goes missing and Novello is ecstatic to be realise that ‘Diamond an artist’s beautiful young reunited with her long lost son, but there are Dick’ has in fact been model is murdered in circumstances eerily members of the family who are reluctant for him murdered. Suspicion falls on one of his biggest recreating a 600-year-old crime of passion. Joe to investigate his abduction. Kit is determined rivals but as Quirke and his assistant Sinclair get delves into a horror story from the castle’s past to find out the truth, but he has no idea how to know Jewell’s enigmatic wife and his fragile to unmask the diseased soul responsible for harrowing his investigation will be... sister, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. these contemporary crimes. [English, Suspense] 320pp Pb $17.99 [Irish, Suspense] Pb $24.99 [English, Police Proc.] Pb $21.95 www.abbeys.com.au 8 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Harlan Coben Miranda Darling Felix Francis Shelter The Siren’s Sting Gamble Myron Bolitar discovers Going deep undercover As one of the youngest that his mysterious and posing as just ever winners of the tearaway younger brother, another jet-setting party Grand National, Nick Brad, has a teenage son. girl on the lookout for a ‘Foxy’ Foxton’s career as When Brad dies in a wealthy husband, Stevie a world class jockey is mysterious accident in Duveen cruises aboard on perfect track until a South America, Myron Vaughan Krok’s mega- near fatal accident cuts is his closest, albeit yacht, surrounded by his dream brutally short. estranged, relative left arms dealers, aristocrats But when he returns to and is assigned to be and billionaires. The Aintree as a spectator Brad’s son’s legal guardian. action swings from the sun-kissed marinas of years later, nothing can prepare him for what Will uncle and nephew be able to live with the Mediterranean to diva season in Venice, unfolds. Minutes before the biggest event on one another? And will Brad’s son be able to through the oilfields of Azerbaijan and on to the racing calendar, Nick’s affable American resist getting involved in solving a mystery the billionaires’ playgrounds of Spain, but Stevie colleague Herb Kovak is shot at point blank disappearance at his new high school? soon uncovers more questions than answers: range. On discovering Herb had named him as [American, Suspense] 320pp Pb $22.99 What secret deal is Krok brokering? How is he the benefactor of his will, Nick questions why he connected to the Somalian pirate scourge? And has been entrusted with the legacy. Is this why is someone trying to kill her? a generous gift or is it a poisoned chalice? John Connolly [Australian, Espionage] 360pp Tp $29.99 [English, Suspense] 432pp Hb $45.00 The Burning Soul Charlie Parker #10 Krista Davis Tom Franklin Randall Haight has a The Diva Haunts Crooked Letter, secret: when he was a the House Crooked Letter teenager, he and his Domestic Diva #5 Amos, Mississippi, is a friend killed a 14-year- Domestic diva Sophie old girl. Randall did his quiet town. Silas Jones is Winston is getting into its sole law enforcement time and built a new the Halloween spirit - life in the small Maine officer. The last excitement her decorations for a here was nearly 20 years town of Pastor’s Bay, but community haunted somebody has discovered ago, when a teenage girl house are so good, it’s disappeared on a date the truth about Randall. He is being tormented scary. Not to be outdone, by anonymous messages, haunting reminders with Larry Ott, Silas’ one- rival domestic diva time boyhood friend. The of his past crime and he wants private detective Natasha is throwing a Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another law couldn’t prove Larry guilty, but the whole spooktacular Halloween party at her house. town has shunned him ever since. Then the 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from But when Sophie arrives, she discovers one of Pastor’s Bay and the missing girl’s family has its town’s peace is shattered when someone tries Natasha’s guests dead in a Halloween display to kill the reclusive Ott, another young woman own secrets to protect... and a pale, fanged partygoer fleeing the scene. [Irish, Private Eye] 544pp Tp $29.99 goes missing and the town’s drug dealer is Could the killer be a “real” vampire -- the same murdered. Woven through the tautly written one rumoured to have lived in Sophie’s haunted murder story is the unspoken secret that hangs Neil Cross house back when it was a boarding house? over the lives of two men - one black, one white. Good thing a domestic diva never runs out of [American, Police Proc.] 320pp Pb $19.99 The Calling garlic. [American, Cosy] 304pp Pb $13.50 John Luther #1 Meet Detective Chief Janet Evanovich Sergios Gakas Inspector John Luther, Wicked Appetite Ashes murder detective - a Meet brand new heroine When Sonia Verika, near-genius who has an a former actress who takes extraordinary clearance Elizabeth Tucker: bakery worker, unlucky in love... solace in alcohol and rate. He commands isolation, is pulled from outstanding loyalty from and descendant of witches. Life is pleasantly the fire, her body friends and colleagues. is burned almost beyond But Luther seethes with a predictable for Lizzy, until a tall, black-haired, dark recognition. The house hidden fury that at times he can barely control. she shared with a Sometimes it sends him to the brink of madness, eyed man shows up. His name is Gerwulf Grimoire retired director and a making him do things way beyond the limits of small family of African the law. [English, Police Proc.] 400pp Tp $29.99 and he wants what Lizzy has: knowledge. Another man, Diesel, also refugees is entirely destroyed and she is the wants things Lizzy has. Unbeknownst to Lizzy, only survivor. A classic noir thriller - unflinching Clive Cussler she has the ability to find ‘empowered objects’. in its examination of the violence and extortion A collection of stones that represent the seven bred by corruption, but at the same time tender The Race in its treatment of human weaknesses, of guilt, Isaac Bell #4 deadly sins have made their way to Marblehead. If the stones are grouped together, they have addiction and regret. Intrepid detective Isaac the power to unleash hell on earth... [Greek, Police Procedural] 320pp Tp $29.99 Bell engages in his most [American, Romantic Susp.] 384pp Pb $14.99 dangerous case yet. It is David Gibbins the early years of the 20th Karin Fossum century, air travel is in its The Gods of Atlantis infancy and newspaper The Caller A lost Nazi bunker in publisher Preston Inspector Sejer #8 a forest in Germany Whiteway is offering One summer evening contains a dreadful secret. $50,000 for the first flier to Lily and her husband are Marine archaeologist cross America in less than 50 days. enjoying a meal while Jack Howard returns to He is even sponsoring one of the candidates - their baby daughter the lost island of Atlantis a barnstorming woman flier named Josephine sleeps. But Lily is in the Black Sea to Frost - and that’s where Isaac Bell comes in. paralysed with terror answer questions about Frost’s violent-tempered business magnate when she finds her the Atlantis priests that husband, Harry, has just killed her lover and child bathed in blood. have plagued him. Then tried to kill her and now he’s on the run - but Mercifully, the baby is by tracking down the 1930s expeditions of Whiteway is sure he’ll try again. Bell knows that unharmed, but Inspector Sejer wonders why Himmler’s Ahnenerbe - the Nazi’s Department of if he takes the case, Frost will be after him, too. anyone would carry out such a sinister prank... Cultural Heritage - and its link with Atlantis, Jack Things are not quite what they seem to him, Also available: Inspector Sejer #7, Bad Intentions wonders - could there possibly be a terrifying leading to a very fatal mistake indeed. (Pb $24.95). new version of ‘Atlantis’, a priesthood of evil? [American, Police Proc.] 400pp Tp $29.95 [Norwegian, Police Proc.] 304pp Tp $32.95 [English, Archaeological] 448pp Tp $29.99 ph 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8993 9 Abbey’s Bookshop Michael Harvey Sofie Kelly Amanda Lee We All Fall Down Sleight of Paw Thread Reckoning Michael Kelly #4 Magical Cats #2 Embroidery Mystery #3 Chicago. A biological Small-town librarian Cupid’s arrow is making weapon is set off in the Kathleen Paulson never its way to Tallulah Falls, subway and quickly wanted to be the crazy Oregon, bringing lots of spreads through the city’s cat lady. But after Owen business to Marcy Singer’s west side. Kelly goes and Hercules followed her embroidery specialty into the subway with a home, she realised her shop-like the bride who team trained in microbial mind wasn’t playing tricks wants her mother’s dress forensics (essentially the on her - her cats have embellished with jewels. next generation of CSI) magical abilities. When But someone wants to and gets a hard lesson in “black biology” and the the body of elderly do- squash all the romance- dimensions of the “coming biological war”. The gooder Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath’s and in this case they’ll go as far as murder... pathogen spreads and the government is forced favourite local cafe, she knows Owen’s talent for [American, Cosy] 336pp Pb $13.50 to quarantine sections of the city. Soldiers in turning invisible and Hercules’s ability to walk bio-hazard suits take to the streets and gangs through walls will give the felines access to clues take over day-to-day law and order in the Kath couldn’t get without arousing suspicion. It Gerard O’Donovan sectioned off hot zones as society unravels. will take a bit of FURtive investigating to catch [American, Forensic] 320pp Tp $29.99 the cold-hearted killer. The Priest [American, Cosy] 336pp Pb $13.50 He is called The Priest. His weapon is a crucifix. Anne Holt Bernard Knight His victims don’t have a Fear Not prayer. A killer is stalking Vik & Stubo #3 According to the dark streets of Dublin. the Evidence Before each attack, he During a snowy Christmas Dr Richard Pryor #2 season in Norway, criminal makes the sign of the psychologist and profiler After starting their risky cross; then he sends his Inger Johanne Vik finds venture of a private victims to God. After not only her husband forensic consultancy, a foreign politican’s and herself but also her Doctor Richard Pryor daughter is brutally assaulted and left for dead, autistic daughter drawn - now a Home Office her body branded with burns from a blazing into the investigation of pathologist - and forensic cross, the case falls to Detective Inspector a number of disturbing biologist Angela Bray Mike Mulcahy, one tough cop, but is this crime deaths. Her husband, detective Yngvar Stubo, have now become firmly beyond his comprehension? As a media frenzy has been dispatched to Bergen to investigate established. An apparent bizarre suicide in erupts and the city reels in terror, Mulcahy teams the shocking Christmas Eve murder of a local a remote Welsh farm starts them on a new up with ambitious journalist Siobhan Fallon to female bishop. Meanwhile, dead bodies keep investigation, which is followed by an unusual stop this divine mission of murder. turning up, though the causes of death vary. request from the War Office. And when a [Irish, Police Procedural] 512pp Pb $19.99 Before long she will discover something Cotswold veterinary surgeon is charged with incredible that will link them all. poisoning his ailing wife, can Pryor’s expert [Norwegian, Police Proc.] 400pp Tp $24.99 evidence save him from the gallows? Robert B Parker [Welsh, Forensic] 224pp Pb $24.95 Painted Ladies Spenser #39 Linda Howard Adriana Koulias Prey Spenser had a simple The Sixth Key job - protect an art Following the death of In late 2011 a cryptic scholar during a ransom her father, Angie Powell invitation leads a crime exchange for a stolen takes over his business novelist to Venice’s painting. No one was as a wilderness guide in Island of the Dead. Once supposed to die. But the the Montana mountains. there he is captivated scholar had secrets and Business is booming until by his host’s tale, which uncovering them will ex-soldier Dare Callahan spans the centuries but endanger Spenser as well. sets up as a rival guide. seemingly begins and Hired by a museum to Dare’s sights, however, ends in the dark days of provide protection during a ransom exchange are set on something the 1930s... In 1936, a for a stolen painting, Spenser is outraged other than business - it’s Angie he’s looking to similarly cryptic invitation brings Grail historian when the ransom fails and the painting is not steal away, rather than her clients. Angie wants Otto Rahn to an apartment in Berlin. Waiting for recovered, a case that makes him question the nothing to do with him but she has to put her him inside is Hitler’s right-hand man, Heinrich innocence of the art scholar who retained him. feelings to one side when they are suddenly Himmler, and Rahn’s life is turned upside down... [American, Private Eye] 304pp Pb $15.95 thrust together. A man-eater is on the loose and [Australian, Archaeological] Tp $32.95 together they must stop it before it kills again... Also available: Veil of Night (Pb $19.99). [American, Suspense] 336pp Tp $32.99 Camilla Lackberg James Patterson The Hidden Child Kill Alex Cross Alex Cross #18 Jonathan Kellerman Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover The President’s son and Mystery a Nazi medal among her daughter are abducted Alex Delaware #26 late mother’s possessions. and Detective Alex Cross In a glamorous area Haunted by a childhood is one of the first on the of Los Angeles, the of neglect, she resolves scene. But someone very Beverley Fauborg hotel to dig deep into her high up is using the FBI, is about to close for family’s past and finally Secret Service and CIA good. Psychologist uncover the reasons why. to keep him off the case Alex Delaware and his Her enquiries lead her to and in the dark. A deadly girlfriend Robin are the home of a retired history teacher. He was contagion in the water supply cripples half of making a farewell visit to among her mother’s circle of friends during the the capital and Cross discovers that someone the hotel bar when one Second World War but her questions are met may be about to unleash the most devastating patron in particular grabs their attention - a with bizarre and evasive answers. Two days attack the United States has ever experienced. beautiful but aloof young woman dressed all later he meets a violent death. Detective Patrik As his window for solving both crimes narrows, in white. Two days later, Alex is called in on a Hedstrom, Erica’s husband, is on paternity leave Alex makes a desperate decision that goes murder case and is shocked when he recognises but soon becomes embroiled in the murder against everything he believes - one that may the victim as the woman in white... investigation. alter the fate of the entire country. [American, Psychological] 384pp Pb $19.99 [Swedish, Police Procedural] 400pp Pb $24.99 [American, Police Proc.] 384pp Tp $32.95 www.abbeys.com.au 10 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 James Patterson J D Robb Mark Sanderson & Marshall Karp New York to Dallas The Whispering Kill Me If You Can Eve Dallas Gallery Matthew Bannon, a poor 12 years ago, Eve Dallas Snow Hill Station art student living in New was just a rookie NY cop Trilogy #2 York City, finds a duffel when her instincts led On a sweltering day in bag filled with diamonds her to the apartment of July 1937, reporter John during a chaotic attack Isaac McQueen, a man she Steadman is in London’s at Grand Central Station. discovered to be a sick St Paul’s Cathedral waiting Plans for a worry-free murderer and paedophile for his girlfriend. But life with his girlfriend who was keeping young romance is pushed aside Katherine fill his thoughts girls in cages. Now a when he witnesses a - until he realises that he is being hunted. homicide Lieutenant, Eve is one of the most man falling to his death from the Whispering Trailing him is The Ghost, the world’s greatest distinguished officers in the city - and then she Gallery, killing a priest in the process. Did he assassin, who has just pulled off his most high- learns that McQueen has escaped from jail. jump or was he pushed? Two days later Johnny profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member Bent on revenge against Eve and with a need receives the first of a series of grim packages of the international Diamond Syndicate. There’s to punish more ‘bad girls’ McQueen heads to at the offices of his newspaper, The Daily News. only one small problem: the diamonds he was Dallas, Texas - the place where Eve was found Each contains the body part of a woman, plus an supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. as a child, the place where she killed her own enigmatic note, one of which says that he will be [American, Suspense] 368pp Tp $32.95 abusive monster when she was only eight years the murderer’s final victim... old. [American, Police Proc.] 416pp Tp $32.99 [English, Journalistic] 320pp Tp $29.99 George Pelecanos The Cut Kel Robertson Spero Lucas #1 Rip Off Lisa Scottoline Spero Lucas has a new line Inspector Brad Chen #3 Think Twice of work. Since he returned November 2007. There’s Rosato & Associates #13 home after serving in sewage in the big lake at Unbeknownst to her Iraq, he has been doing the heart of the soulless identical twin Bennie special investigations city of Canberra, the Rosato, Alice Connelly is for a defence attorney. TABs have been emptied on the run from her drug- He’s good at it and he by a deadly horse virus dealing confederates who has carved out a niche: and the longest Federal are trying to kill her. Alice recovering stolen election campaign of all sees only one way out – to property, no questions asked. A high-profile time still has a fortnight to become Bennie. She slips crime boss who has heard of Lucas’s speciality run. One-time star detective Brad Chen seems a drug into her drink, and hires him to find out who has been stealing destined for a desk job until someone starts usurps her life. Not only does she sleep with from his operation. It’s the biggest job Lucas has shooting dodgy property developers in Perth her boyfriend, impersonate her at work – and ever been offered and he quickly gets a sense of and Adelaide. The body count soon extends to steal her money, but she also warns the police what’s going on. But before he can close in on shonky financial advisers, crooked lawyers and that her evil twin is out to get her. Her plan what’s been taken, he tangles with men whose assorted fraudsters. Chen is determined to track works perfectly, because when Bennie emerges amorality and violence leave him reeling. down the hitman the public is calling a hero. to fight back, everyone thinks she’s Alice – [American, Private Eye] 304pp Tp $32.99 [Australian, Police Proc.] 368pp Tp $32.99 including the police... [American, Legal] Pb $19.99 Stef Penney Sebastian Rotella The Invisible Ones Triple Crossing Small-time PI Ray Lovell Valentine Pescatore is Yrsa Sigurdardottir veers between paralysis a rookie Border Patrol and delirium in a hospital The Day is Dark agent, just trying to Thóra Gudmundsdóttir #4 bed. But before the survive the Line. Until he accident that landed him pursues a suspect across When all contact is lost there, he had promised to the border into Mexico. with two Icelanders find Rose Janko who was Isabel Puente is a beautiful working in a harsh and married to the charismatic US agent investigating a sparsely populated area son of a travelling gypsy powerful Mexican crime on the northeast coast of family, Ivo Janko. When family. Her offer - if he Greenland, Thora is hired Ray starts to investigate her disappearance he’s works undercover with her she’ll make his to investigate. Is there surprised that her family are so hostile towards problems go away. But soon their relationship is any connection with the him. The Jankos have not had an easy past. They no longer strictly professional. Over the border disappearance of a woman are a clan touched by tragedy - either they are in Tijuana, anti-corruption chief Leo Mendez from the site months earlier? And why are the cursed, or they are hiding a terrible secret. Could is working to bring criminals to justice. In a locals so hostile? it be that Rose’s discovery of that secret led to city where anyone can be bought, he’s made [Icelandic, Private Eye] 432pp Tp $32.99 her disappearance all those years ago? Soon he enemies on both sides of the law. All three have wishes that he’d never asked the question. the same aim: to bring down the cartels. 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ell I'm back from my expedition through central These stories render a unique picture of three decades in W Australia with Outback Spirit. Even I was amazed post-war suburban Australia, an Australia where there is a at how far we went. At one point we were halfway vague dissatisfaction with life, a lot of drinking and a lot of to Mount Isa – two little places called Bedourie and yearning for the future. Carroll's style is unusual, with much Boulia in the Channel Country. It was great to see they both had repetition and rhythm, so you find yourself immersed as aquatic centres (thanks to artesian bores), complete with halls he voices the feelings and thoughts of the characters, and marked out for squash or tennis, etc. It seems someone is keen celebrates each small moment. It is worth taking time to keep the people of the outback healthy and happy. My friends to join him. and I were known as ‘the three elderly ladies', but we made sure we kept up with the pack! I walked on Sturt's Stony Desert, Amongst Carroll's other books is a nice novel transposing the touched the ‘Dig Tree' and visited Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary, lives of a modern young couple who enter the grounds of an and Birdsville in the Simpson Desert, and places like Tibooburra English country house, with that of T S Eliot and his lover, and Innamincka. Alice Springs was the end of the line. We drove who stayed there in the 1930s. This is called The Lost Life and drove and drove (well, John the bus driver did). We did ($24.99 Pb 272pp). 4,616 km one way! Then we flew home. The desert is looking magnificent. Absolutely beautiful. I now know what One of the reviewers of Carroll's work has compared him to a mallee tree and a coolibah tree really look like. I kept thinking Graham Greene, suggesting that where there is I must reread Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles ($12.95 Pb). a ‘Greeneland' there might also be a ‘Carroll Land'. So I was If you haven't read this, put it on your list and make sure you do. drawn to a new group biography called Shades of Greene: Can I also recommend a book written by Hilarie Lindsay called One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis ($24.95 The Washerwoman's Dream: The Extraordinary Life of Winifred Pb 575pp incl index). Lewis is the ideal person to write Steger 1882-1981 ($24.99 Pb). Not only one of Australia's forgotten this complicated saga. He worked for Chatto & Windus and writers, she also married an Afghan cameleer taking supplies to Jonathan Cape and also wrote Penguin Special: The Life and the Telegraph Station at Alice Springs. She went to Mecca with Times of Allen Lane, published in 2005, as well as three very him (a cinch after Central Australia). A story closer to our time amusing personal memoirs. These are Kindred Spirits: Adrift is that of Kidman: The Forgotten King by Jill Bowen ($27.99 Pb in Literary London and Playing for Time (Pb $30 ea). Faber 544pp), about the great pastoralist landholder whose company have reissued these in time to join his third volume, Grub still trades today. Street Irregular: Scenes of Literary Life ($65 Hb 352pp).

Lenny Bartulin's third crime story is out, De Luxe: A Jack Susko The Greene family was indeed talented and quirky. Several Mystery ($24.95 Pb 229pp). We have a new character, an "older members were spies (are you surprised?), one was Director woman" with a taste for poker, and Jack is still getting into General of the BBC, another was an Everest mountaineer, trouble and still in love with Claudia, daughter of big-time another Managing Director of Jonathan Cape. Ron Abbey and criminal Ziggy Brandt. His secondhand bookshop in York Street I had dinner with this entertaining man on one of his visits isn't doing well either. Lots of fun. The first two stories were to Australia. Fortunately there is an index, as this is A Deadly Business and The Black Russian ($27.95 ea). a very complicated story, made even more confusing by the multiple Graham Greenes. All in all, it is a great picture of Opera enthusiast Lord Harewood died in July, much mourned. upper-middle-class society in England in the last century. His famous edition of Kobbe's Opera Book has now been thoroughly revised and redesigned with the help of co-editor One of our customers, Stuart Littlemore, who was the Antony Peattie. The New Kobbe's Opera Book ($130 Hb 1,008pp) original face of Media Watch on TV, has written a crime now covers almost 500 works including revivals and 46 new story with a difference, calledHarry Curry: Counsel of Choice composers. It is the opera-goers bible. There is also a smaller ($29.99 Pb 291pp). This is a collection of cases illustrating edition called The New Pocket Kobbe's Opera Book ($44.95 Hb how the machinations of the barrister can get 544pp), which seems to be taken from Lord Harewood's earlier a case dismissed, or ensure someone is acquitted. The stories edition. are tied together by the fact that Harry Curry (a renowned defence attorney) is the strategic adviser to Arabella As I mentioned last month, the biggest news to me as an ardent Engineer (an English barrister of Indian descent trying to Penguin follower is that most of Penguin's Black Classics have break into the Sydney scene) and David Surrey (a country been reduced in price to $9.95. No doubt Penguin made this solicitor). Harry is temporarily suspended as he is rude to decision partly in response to Random's Vintage Classics being the judge once too often. There are lots of ‘in' jokes, even the reduced to $12.95. There is a black and orange box on our names, and I'm sure there will be lots of people who want to website homepage where you can check either the complete list, follow Harry's tactics. And Arabella fancies him as well! Much or an in stock list, or by category. What a great feast! There are to his surprise. Seems like a fascinating mind is better than over 700 titles in the Black Classics list, of which more than 520 a handsome face. Looks like the start of an interesting series. are currently in stock here, so you can see why it's best to come to Abbey's first for backlist titles. Three lovely things happened at the annual conference of the Australian Booksellers Association in Melbourne last month. I say "an ardent Penguin follower" because I remember how Our Lindy Jones was named Bookseller of the Year, Margaret important the paperback Penguin list was for everyone wanting Fulton was presented with the Lloyd O'Neill Award for more education after the Second World War. When we were Services to the Book Industry and Anh Do's book, living in London in the early 60s, Ron Abbey started a bookshop The Happiest Refugee, won Biography of the Year, Newcomer in Charing Cross Road, for Colletts, which stocked ONLY Penguin of the Year and Book of the Year. That really is some trifecta! books. And in Sydney, we twice had small bookshops selling As I said a few months ago, I think this is a really uplifting ONLY Penguins - one in Paddington opposite the markets and book. Let's have more of them. Lindy has worked at Abbey's the other in the CBD. for almost twelve years and is a really dedicated bookseller. She doesn't have TV in her home! She is one of our buyers I had great pleasure in reading Steven Carroll's latest book and is especially knowledgeable about Children's Books. Spirit of Progress ($26.95 Pb 347pp), set in Melbourne just as You'll find her at her desk beside our new Children's Corner the Second World War ends. The story revolves around an on the ground floor. We took a lovely photo of her on the eccentric old aunt living in a tent on the edge of the city who night which you can see on our website. is painted by Sydney Nolan (this is Carroll's own family myth). This allows observation of the artistic scene in Melbourne, More good news. If, like me, you have trouble with stairs, where all the artists are just waiting to leave, and also of course you can now go up to Galaxy Bookshop or Language Book Sunday Reed and her gallery. Engine-driver Vic, his wife Rita Centre on the first floor via the lift in the foyer of the and son Michael - characters in his incomparable trilogy - also building. No need for a special access card during office make an appearance, and you could call this a prequel. I hope it hours (8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri), or outside office hours just ask leads you to read the three books which follow: The Art of the a staff member to escort you. Engine Driver, The Gift of Speed and The Time We Have Taken ($24.99 ea), the last of which won the Miles Franklin Award. Keep well, Eve

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