“Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #296 SEPTEMBER 2010
An interview with John Green author of the new crime thriller STIEG-TEMBER! The Girl Who Kicked the NOWHERE MAN Hornets’ Nest (#3) Tp $32.99 Pb $24.95
Why did you give up work as an investment I was worried that Now available in Pb. banker to write a thriller about money, world markets were All 3 titles now murder and markets? going nuts and that available in Pb. They say you should write about what you we might be in a know! But truthfully, when it dawned on me hyped-up bubble. that what got me up in the morning was writing A publisher and not my day job, I quit the job. I’ve always knocked back my The Girl Who Played with Fire (#2) loved stories and hankered to write them, and book because, she said, my fictional crash was Pb $24.95 Film Tie-in edition now available. that’s what I’m now doing. too unbelievable. She was wrong. The financial crisis that ripped global markets apart from mid- What can you tell us about your childhood? September 2008 hit the world just before the I grew up in Kings Cross. Back then, it was book could be published. So again, a real-world a village... a weird village: blue-collar Aussies, crisis forced a major rewrite! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (#1) migrants, prostitutes, bohemians, eccentrics, I then re-set my story smack inside the DVD $34.95 communists, bikies, strippers and drag queens. actual global financial crisis, weaving my fiction Film (with subtitles) Everybody knew everybody. with the excruciating facts that we all know only now available. Where else could a 7-year-old boy have too well. a prostitute pay him? I was on my way to the Saturday matinee movie when, feeling my Why the title Nowhere Man? pockets, I discovered I’d lost my money. Crying, It reflects how I see the title character, I retraced my steps along Darlinghurst Road Michael Hunt. His shadow casts darkly A NEW KATE ATKINSON! until Shirley called me over from her regular throughout the story. He is everywhere, yet Started Early, doorway. When I explained my catastrophe nowhere. His deserted wife, Sonya, a university Took My Dog between sobs, she handed me enough money professor, is the real hero of the book. An Tp $32.95 for a ticket, a drink and a snack, patted me on intelligent woman who thinks she has a fulfilling A Jackson Brodie mystery. the bottom and sent me back to the movies. life... that is, until it falls apart and she faces the See review - back page. ugly truth. In writing this book, you predicted the It’s got money, murder and passion... and future twice. That’s a bit strange, isn’t it? some very unusual science. Wealthy, but lone, Scary actually! Mostly art imitates life, stock-trader Michael Hunt is a secretive man but for me it was the other way around. I first with a past that he has not even shared with HALF-PRICE HARDBACK! thought I’d finished Nowhere Man in August his wife. But Sonya is forced to start piecing it Elizabeth Peters 2001. I sent it off to an agent just weeks before together when Michael suddenly goes missing, A River in the Sky the September 11 terrorist attacks. The problem leaving her millions in debt, a bank foreclosing Amelia Peabody #19 was that, in my original story, I had fictionally on their Sydney beach house, a love-triangle Hardback $46.95 $23.50 destroyed the World Trade Centre. I’d visited murder and many unanswered questions. When there only a few months earlier and a number the global financial crisis erupts, Sonya’s world of people I knew were killed when the terrorists gets even bleaker, until she stumbles on some struck. Obviously, I had to do a major rewrite. strange files that will change her life forever. ✻ FATHER’S DAY But that wasn’t the only one. They are the key to repaying her debts and Sunday 5 September I left the book for a while, then dreamt up finding Michael, or at least why he left and why So much to choose from what I thought was a wild stock market bust. I he lied. Using these files, Sonya risks everything. for the perfect gift! did that for two reasons... for an exciting, white- Her journey takes her from Sydney to Princeton knuckled ride for my main character – a woman University to ask a famous physicist for help in who is left alone and in huge debt by her unlocking the mystery. But Sonya’s hunt for suddenly missing husband... and frankly because Michael becomes a search for herself. MODERN CRIME Cara BLACK Tony BLACK Murder in the Latin Quarter Loss 288pp Pb $24.95 Christine BARBER 368pp Pb $24.99 Gus Dury #3. Gus Dury is a changed man. He The Replacement Child 288pp Pb $27.00 Aimee Luduc #9. A Haitian woman arrives is off the Edinburgh streets and back with his Editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone at the office of Leduc Detective and estranged wife. He has promised her that he in the Capital Tribune newsroom. The announces that she is Aimee’s sister, her won’t get involved in any more dodgy cases caller is the notorious Scanner Lady – an father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimee is which the police can’t or won’t solve. And he’s anonymous tipster whose hobby is to phone thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s off the drink. But when his brother Michael the newspaper with tips from her police disappearance and her father’s death, she is found dead with a bullet in his heart, Gus’ scanner. But then the Scanner Lady is killed has always wanted a sister. Her partner, Rene, life begins to unravel all over again. How can and Lucy enlists the help of Detective Gil is wary of this stranger, but Aimee embraces he keep the promises he has made and still Montoya, who is focused on the case of a her and soon finds herself involved in murky avenge his brother’s murder? (Scottish) teacher whose body was thrown off the Rio Haitian politics, which leads to murder in Michael BOND Grande Gorge Bridge. 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Solitude Island dangerous women. As the clock ticks towards London, 1930s. Poor with a killer who midnight on New Year’s Eve, all routes in Lady Georgiana – 34th is determined to protect the biggest family and out of Manhattan are sealed. Not only in line to the throne – secret of all. (American) is Lock’s life in danger, but so are the lives of has been sent home James BECKER millions of others... (Scottish) due to a little scandal. Now she must keep The Messiah Secret 480pp Tp $32.95 Tony BLACK A piece of ancient parchment has been the entirely unsuitable Long Time Dead 256pp Pb $32.95 Mrs Simpson from found in a crumbling English countryside Gus Dury #4. Gus Dury mansion. Written in arcane code is the seducing the Prince is back on the drink, of Wales… and assist answer to a mystery that has explosive when his best friend implications. Determined to solve the Scotland Yard in asks him to investigate preventing someone mystery that has puzzled scholars and the ritual, on-campus thinkers for two millennia, Chris Bronson from shooting the Prince of Wales instead of hanging of an quails! (English) embarks on a journey to one of the most Edinburgh University remote and hostile parts of the world. But he student. The murder Mary Jane CLARK is followed by someone desperate to protect victim’s mother is a Dying for Mercy 400pp Pb $14.95 the centuries-old secret. Someone who is high-profile actress, TV host Eliza Blake and her colleagues are dangerous. (English) who has promised a touring a historic New York estate when a James BENN big-money reward. body is discovered along with a clue in a Evil for Evil 336pp Tp $24.95 Gus, desperate for stone fountain, causing Eliza and the home’s Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries #4. At the money, goes undercover at the university, owners to uncover even more clues and instruction of his uncle, the young and taking a janitor’s job, and soon uncovers a riddles. But someone his determined to keep brash Billy Boyle goes to Northern Ireland to similar ritualistic hanging which took place one last secret, threatening the lives of Eliza recover stolen US weapons and to keep the in the 70s. Then another murder takes place, and her crew. (American) Irish Republic neutral. (American) and Gus finds himself the next target for the executioner. (Scottish) Pb = Paperback Tp = Trade Paperback (slightly larger than Pb) Hb = Hardback www.abbeys.com.au 2 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Michael CONNELLY Carola DUNN Janet EVANOVICH Nine Dragons 416pp Pb $22.99 Dead in the Water 272pp Pb $21.99 Wicked Appetite 320pp Tp $32.99 Bosch #14. The shooting of a Chinese liquor Daisy Dalrymple #6. 1923. 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(American) he must keep secret from even his closest Sam Briscoe team up to seal an ocean- allies… (English) Sarah CORTEZ & Liz MARTINEZ (eds) floor break that is releasing toxic gas and threatening all life on the planet. (American) Indian Country Noir 300pp Pb $29.99 R J ELLORY Step into Indian Country and enter the dark Saints of New York 464pp Tp $32.99 Karin FOSSUM welter of troubled history throughout the The death of a Bad Intentions 192pp Tp $32.95 Americas, where the heritage of violence young heroin dealer Inspector Sejer #7. Early one September, three meets the ferocity of intent. Featuring brand- occasions no great friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin new stories by Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, concern for NYPD by Dead Water Lake. In the middle of the Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Detective Frank night, they row across the water. But only Reed Farrel Coleman, O’Neil De Noux, A A Parrish, but when two of them return. 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So when he is challenge for Cherry’s handlers is to rescue cop who believes he is God’s ‘red right hand’. found dead in his car, Chief Superintendent Ann while keeping her existence a secret (American) Lambert and DS Hook don’t have to look very from the public. Will Cherry sober up in time far to find people with strong motives for the to lip-synch her concert tour and promote murder… (English) her new album? And will Ann escape from Cherry’s shadow? (American)
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Hakan NESSER couples in Madrid, With the discovery of another young woman The Inspector and Silence Salzburg, Athens who has been brutally attacked, detectives and Paris have 288pp Tp $32.99 Anderson and Costello realise this terrifying been found dead. Inspector Van psychopath has started working once more. Little connects the Veeteren #5. In the They must use every trick in the book to stop murders, other town of Sorbinowo, a him. (Scottish) girl has gone missing than a postcard from the summer to the local newspaper that precedes each Christopher REICH camp of ‘The Pure new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Rules of Betrayal 384pp Tp $32.95 Life’, a religious Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high sect in the woods. just received a postcard in Stockholm – and in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan- Chief Inspector Van they think they know where the next victims Afghanistan border. Nearly 30 years later, Veeteren is tasked will be. (American) a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor to help solve the Otto PENZLER (Editor) thrown into a shadowy world of double mystery. But Oscar Agents of Treachery: Spy Stories Yellineck – the leader and triple agents where absolutely no one 448pp Tp $32.95 of the sect – refuses can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must From a secretive soldier on the eve of the to admit anyone is unravel the mystery surrounding his wife – an Normandy landings to a golf-playing gun missing. Then the girl’s body is found in the enigmatic and lethal spy who plays by her fanatic in a suburb of modern Britain, woods, and Yellineck himself disappears. Van own rules – to discover where her loyalties everybody has something to hide in this Veeteren – faced with silence from members truly lie. (American) brilliant collection of original spy fiction that of the sect – must rely on his intuition to solve brings together the distinctive voices of the Kathy REICHS the case. (Swedish) genre for the very first time. (American) Mortal Remains 320pp Tp $32.95 Stuart NEVILLE Temperance Brennan Gary PHILLIPS (Editor) The Twelve 480pp Pb $24.95 #13. Tempe is called Orange County Noir 300pp Pb $29.99 Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract to the scene of an Orange County, California, brings to mind the killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 autoerotic death – endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion people he has killed. Then one of the ghosts but the man whose housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, offers Fegan a solution: kill those who body she examines and shopping centres. This volume pulls engineered their deaths. From the greedy apparently died in back the veil to reveal what lurks behind the politicians to the corrupt security forces, a helicopter crash curtain. Featuring brand-new stories by Susan all must pay the price. But when Fegan’s in Vietnam 40 years Straight, Robert S Levinson, Rob Roberge, vendetta threatens to derail Northern before. So who Nathan Walpow, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Ireland’s peace process and destabilise its is buried in the Dan Duling, Mary Castillo, Lawrence Maddox, fledgling government, old comrades and soldier’s grave? As Dick Lochte, Robert Ward, Gary Phillips, enemies want him gone. The secrets of a dirty Tempe unravels the Gordon McAlpine, Martin Smith and Patricia war should stay buried: even if its ghosts do mystery, she realises McFall. (American) not. (Irish) there are some who would rather the past stayed dead and buried. AKA Spider Bones in the US. (American)
www.abbeys.com.au 6 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Patrick ROBINSON Angela SAVAGE Bob SHEPHERD Diamondhead 432pp Pb $18.99 The Half-Child 304pp Tp $32.95 The Infidel 384pp Tp $32.99 When Navy SEAL Mack Bedford’s fellow Jayne Keeney is a When Islamic officers are killed by Iraqi insurgents using feisty 30-something militants infiltrate a Diamondhead missile, he avenges their Aussie who has an elite British murders, but gets himself court-martialled been living in counter-narcotics and kicked out of the Navy. To make matters Bangkok for many programme, disaster worse, he learns the missiles were sold years. She has been is averted thanks to illegally by French politician Henri Foche. hired to investigate ex-SAS soldiers John Mack has a gravely ill son whose life can the alleged suicide Patterson and Dusty only be saved with an unaffordable medical of an Australian Miller. But when procedure, so when he is offered an award to woman in a Thai fallout from the affair assassinate Henri Foche, he agrees. (English) coastal town. threatens to topple Maryanne Delbeck Al ROKER the West’s fragile was happy and Afghan alliance and expose failings inside The Morning Show Murders harmless; her father the UK’s new crime fighting agency, John 432pp Pb $14.95 refuses to believe she took her own life. Jayne and Dusty suddenly find themselves on the As famous for his popular cooking immerses herself in the case, navigating the wrong side of the law – and on the run. But segment on Wake Up America! as for his backstreet world of Thai lady-boys, monks, their journey to freedom will thrust them swank Manhattan bistro, Billy Blessing can strippers, ex-pats and corrupt officials. deeper into the Afghan conflict than they add prime murder suspect to his list of (Australian) ever imagined. (English) accomplishments. When one of the network’s top honchos ends up dead, it’s a poisoned Lisa SCOTTOLINE Martin Cruz SMITH serving of Blessing’s coq au vin that’s to Look Again 384pp Pb $22.99 Three Stations 352pp Tp $32.99 blame. Billy knows he’s being framed, but When reporter Ellen Gleeson receives a As a train pulls into proving it won’t be easy – not with his perky Missing Persons flyer in the mail, she realises Yaroslav Station, co-host involved in a brass-knuckles contract the child in the photo looks exactly like her Moscow, a teenage girl negotiation, a Mossad agent about to tell adopted son Will. His adoption was lawful, wakes to discover her all on the air, and a ruthless international but as a journalist she feels compelled to baby has been taken. assassin arriving in the Big Apple! (American) discover the truth. She cannot shake off When the police are the question: if Will rightfully belongs to suspicious of the girl’s Craig RUSSELL someone else, should she give him up? As elusive story, Maya The Long Glasgow Kiss 320pp Tp $29.99 she investigates, uncovering clues no one must search for her Lennox #2. PI Lennox is madly in lust with was meant to discover, she digs too deep, baby in Three Stations the daughter of notorious Glasgow bookie endangering her own life – and that of the – the most dangerous and greyhound breeder ‘Small Change son she loves. (American) part of the city – MacFarlane’. After making a killing on what without their help. Meanwhile, disillusioned looks like a crooked race, Small Change Gerald SEYMOUR with Moscow’s Prosecution Service, Arkady MacFarlane is found bludgeoned to death The Dealer and the Dead Renko is on the brink of resignation when a with a bronze statue of ‘Danny Boy’, his 464pp Tp $32.99 sex worker is found dead in a trailer in Three previous best racer. Lennox gets drawn into 18 years after the Stations. With the local police keen to dismiss the seriously shady business of dog racing as barbarous war with the death as an overdose, Renko’s curiosity is he hunts MacFarlane’s killer. (Scottish) the Serbs that tore piqued. Soon, as he is drawn into the world their communities Fred SABERHAGEN of Moscow’s super-rich, where nothing is as it apart, a group of Séance for a Vampire 192pp Pb $18.95 seems... (American) Croatian villagers Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. When discover the identity Roger SMITH two psychics offer Ambrose Altamont of the Englishman Wake Up Dead 276pp Pb $23.99 the opportunity to contact their recently who they believe On a hot night in deceased daughter, the British aristocrat betrayed them by Cape Town, ex- hires Sherlock Holmes to expose their hoax. welching on a deal model Roxy Palmer Confident in Holmes’ rationalism, what starts to supply arms. With and her gunrunner as cruel mockery becomes deadly reality revenge in sight husband, Joe, are when young Louisa Altamont appears to her at last, they hire a carjacked, leaving parents as a vampire. The resulting chaos professional killer from London to track him Joe lying in a pool of leaves one of the fraudulent spiritualists down. But is the story as simple as they think? blood. The carjackers dead, Holmes missing and Dr Watson alone. (English) make their getaway, With time running out, Watson summons the but Disco and only one who might be able to help – Holmes’ Maggie SHAYNE Godwynn will stop at vampire cousin, Prince Dracula. (American) Kiss Me, Kill Me 400pp Pb $14.95 nothing to track her Secrets of Shadow Falls #3. Keeping her Stephen Jay SCHWARTZ down. Meanwhile, and her son Sam’s secret safe for 16 years, Beat 336pp Pb $27.00 Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned Dr Carrie Overton wonders if it’s time to After LAPD Detective Hayden Glass’ sex- mercenary, won’t let Roxy out of his sight reveal the truth when the deaths of several addiction-propelled urge to seek out a because Joe owed him a chunk of money. teenagers are linked to a long-ago murder, woman from the Internet leads him to And hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed and newcomer Gabriel Cain arrives, asking discover a massive sex-slave trade – run by psychopath determined to renew his vows too many questions and getting too close to the Russian mafia and protected by corrupt with Disco, his prison ‘wise’. (South African) Sam. (American) San Francisco cops – the FBI wants him on the case; but will his presence do more harm than good? (American)
tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 7 CRIME CHRONICLE Jennifer STANLEY Lisa UNGER David WALKER The Way of the Guilty 320pp Pb $14.95 Die for You 368pp Pb $21.95 Too Many Clients 224pp Hb $49.95 Hope Street Church Isabel and Marcus Wild Onion Ltd #4. PI Kirsten and her lawyer Mysteries #3. Cooper Raines are the husband Dugan have a problem. A tarnished Lee has a new perfect couple. One Chicago cop has been murdered, and Dugan’s outlook on life, thanks morning, Marcus foolish flouting of certain rules has ensured to her friends at leaves for work, and his place on the list of suspects. Kirsten knows Hope Street Church. disappears. Isabel it’s unwise to have her own husband as a But when her sister, goes to Marcus’s client, but doesn’t trust his freedom with Ashley, is implicated office, trying to find anyone else. But soon she has two more in a gruesome answers. Instead clients, who both want her to find the real murder, Cooper snaps she finds herself in killer, or so they say. (American) into action. Along the middle of an FBI Michael WALSH with her beau Nathan raid, and is knocked Early Warning 360pp Pb $12.95 and her friends from unconscious. When The NSA’s most lethal weapon is back. Code- Hope Street, Cooper she awakes in a named Devlin, he operates in the darkest vows to solve this unholy mess – with a hospital, she learns that everyone Marcus recesses of the US government. When wing, a prayer, and a small dose of snooping! worked with is dead. Then the police discover international cyber-terrorists allow a deadly (American) Marcus Raines has been dead for years, and cunning band of radical insurgents to Terence STRONG and Isabel was married to a stranger. Isabel breach the highest levels of national security, can’t rest until she finds the truth about the Some Unholy War 416pp Tp $32.99 Devlin must take down an enemy bent on man she loved, and why he deceived her so Having been wounded in action in destroying America… An enemy more violent completely. (American) Afghanistan, Mark Aston returns to his rural and ruthless than the world has ever known. home town. But behind the town’s genteel Lisa UNGER (American) facade lies a dark undercurrent of crime and Fragile Tp $32.95 Wendy Lyn WATSON gang culture. When a fellow Falklands War Maggie is Scoop to Kill 288pp Pb $12.95 veteran named Jock Mohoney is murdered anguished when Mystery a La by yobs high on drugs supplied by a local her son’s girlfriend, Mode #2. When a Muslim gang, Aston decides it’s time to act. Charlene, vanishes. graduate student Teaming up with former SAS colleague Ravi Eerie parallels soon and the teacher he Azoor, he succeeds in infiltrating the gang emerge between accused of sexual only to discover that it’s part of a far larger this disappearance harassment are network, whose tentacles reach all the way and an abduction found dead after to Taliban warlord and drug baron, Dr Zam- that shook their the annual Honour’s Zama. (English) community years Day festivities, Rebecca TOPE ago. Maggie can Tally Jones, the hardly believe A Grave in the Cotswolds proprietor of an that her husband, 384pp Hb $49.95 old-fashioned ice a police officer, Thea Osborne #8. Thea Osborne and her cream parlour, must suspects her son of causing Charlene’s spaniel Hepzie are staying in the late Greta get the scoop on a disappearance. Ricky is his father’s son in all Simmonds’ house. Thea is torn between cold-blooded murderer. (American) the most important ways and she suddenly moving back home or waiting for the realises that might be exactly what Jones David WHISH-WILSON execution of the will. When the discovery of a fears. In a town where the past is always Line of Sight 272pp Pb $29.95 body in a nearby field takes the decision out present, nobody is above suspicion… When a brothel madam is shot on a Perth of Thea’s hands, she finds herself embroiled (American) golf course in 1975, it should be a routine in a murder investigation once again. Thea murder enquiry. But there’s barely an Antoinette VAN HEUGTEN believes the police’s only suspect, Drew investigation, and Superintendent Swann Slocombe, is innocent. As they work together Saving Max 384pp Pb $27.00 thinks it’s because some very respectable to clear his name, they realise that in this While being assessed at an Iowa psychiatric people are profiting off heroin – the new village, a means and motive could be laid at hospital, mentally troubled Max Parkman is drug in town. Swann is pointing the finger at anybody’s door. (English) found covered with blood at the scene of a those in strongholds of power: big business, horrific murder and is accused of being the organised crime, the government. He might killer. His mother, Danielle, is desperate to have won the first round by forcing a royal prove her son innocent. (American) commission, but now Swann’s teenage Daniel D VICTOR daughter has disappeared. And word on The Seventh Bullet 224pp Pb $18.95 the street is Swann’s a dead man walking. Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. (Australian) Sherlock Holmes just wants a peaceful life Michael WHITE in the Sussex countryside but his hopes The Art of Murder 416pp Tp $32.95 are dashed when true-life muckraker and In a London art gallery, the meticulous author David Graham Phillips is assassinated, arrangement of an apple in the hole leaving behind little clues as to why he was where the corpse’s face used to be has murdered. The pleas of his sister draw Holmes DCI Pendragon and his team reeling. The and Watson to the far side of the Atlantic, reference to surrealist painter Magritte is where a web of deceit, violence and intrigue clear. 24 hours later, the police have a second unravels as they embark on one of their most grotesque killing on their hands, this time challenging cases. (American) emulating a famous Dali painting. Someone is turning murder into an art form, and Pendragon must solve the crime. (Australian) www.abbeys.com.au 8 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Edward WILSON CRIME HISTORICAL Edward MARSTON The Darkling Spy 300pp Pb $29.99 The King’s Evil (1999) 384pp Pb $19.99 London, 1956. Simon BEAUFORT Christopher A generation The Bloodstained Throne Redmayne Mystery of British spies 256pp Hb $49.95 #1. London, 1666. are haunted by Sir Geoffrey Mappestone #7. When the former Christopher the ghosts of crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and Redmayne and friends turned his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of Jonathan Bale are traitor. Henry England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm hardly kindred Bone, a Mandarin destroys their ship and casts them ashore. spirits. Redmayne spymaster, is The two knights are thrust into the company dedicates himself to convinced that a of other shipwrecked passengers, and rebuilding the city man codenamed while attempting to evade the unwelcome that Bale believes Butterfly is attention of the more dangerous members was destroyed the Holy Grail of the group, they become unwillingly drawn by its own inner of Cold War into a plot to overthrow the king and return corruption. The two Intelligence. In England to Saxon rule. (English) men are thrown together when they catch reality, however, Butterfly is an aristocratic thieves who are stealing from the house that Ariana FRANKLIN pervert whose political tastes are as ugly as Redmayne has designed for Sir Ambrose his sexual preferences. Worst of all, Butterfly The Assassin’s Prayer 320pp Tp $32.95 Northcott. The foul murder of Sir Ambrose has the ability to identify each traitor – and The King of England joins them, in a dangerous investigation that every serving British spy who helped them. has ordered his takes them through the brothels and gaming (English) Mistress of the Art of houses of Restoration London, to the heart of Death – anatomist the King’s court. (English) Don WINSLOW and doctor Adelia The Gentlemen’s Hour Aguilar – to I J PARKER 336pp Pb $24.95 accompany ten-year- The Masuda Affair 240pp Hb $49.95 Boone Daniels, old Princess Joanna Sugawara Akitada Mystery #7. 11th century a laid-back PI, on her thousand-mile Japan. Government official Sugawara gathers with his journey to marry Akitada finds a mute boy on a deserted surfing buddies the King of Sicily. road. Akitada, still grieving for his own small on Pacific Beach. Adelia sets sail with son, determines to find the boy’s parents. Having no work the princess and Meanwhile, Akitada’s faithful servant Tora to do and no real her lavish procession of nobles, servants, has lost his new bride to a powerful man reason to go to the luggage and treasure. But when members who pursues beautiful women and will stop office, Boone stays of the procession begin to die, there are at nothing to possess them. The trails of for the second dangerous accusations of witchcraft against these two seemingly unrelated cases lead shift on the daily Adelia. Meanwhile one traveller, armed with Akitada and Tora to the entertainers of the surfing clock – a brilliant disguise and a personal vendetta, amusement quarter, where murder follows in the Gentleman’s has been watching Adelia all too closely. He their footsteps… (American) Hour. But when wants her dead… but he wants her to suffer C J SANSOM The Sundowner, first. (English) Heartstone 450pp Tp $32.99 a symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, Michael JECKS Shardlake #5. 1545. sees a murderous dispute between a young The Bishop Must Die 480pp Pb $19.99 Henry VIII’s invasion surfer and a member of the territorial Knights Templar #28. 1326. In France, King of France has gone Rockpile Crew, the painful truth that violence Edward II’s estranged wife Queen Isabella wrong, and a French is seeping into the surf community can no shames him by refusing to return to England fleet is preparing longer be ignored… (American) and flaunting her adulterous relationship to sail across the Susan WITTIG ALBERT with the king’s sworn enemy, Sir Roger Channel. Meanwhile, Wormwood 304pp Pb $14.95 Mortimer. When the king hears she has Matthew Shardlake China Bayles #17. China Bayles needs rest, and betrothed their son to the daughter of the is asked to a historic Shaker village in Kentucky seems Count of Hainault, England fears an invasion investigate claims the ideal place for it. There she can learn of Hainault mercenaries. Meanwhile the of ‘monstrous about the intriguing Shaker culture and its Treasurer of England’s life is threatened. He wrongs’ committed medicinal herbs. But the village is plagued has made many enemies, and Sir Baldwin and against a young with misfortune. China wonders if, with the Simon must do all they can to find the would- ward of the court. help of some age-old journals full of scandal, be assassin before he can strike. (English) Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey she can get to the bottom of it. But after a to Portsmouth, where Shardlake takes the Michael JECKS shocking death occurs during her stay, China opportunity to investigate the mysterious The Oath 528pp Pb $35.95 will plunge into the archives of another past of Ellen Fettipace, a young woman Knights Templar #29. 1326. In an England time to connect the sins of the past with a incarcerated in the Bedlam. The mysteries riven with conflict, knight and peasant alike modern-day murder. (American) surrounding the young ward, and the events find their lives turned upside down by the that destroyed Ellen’s family 19 years before, Stuart WOODS warring factions of Edward II, with his hated reunite Shardlake with an old friend and an Kisser 400pp Pb $18.95 favourite, Hugh le Despenser, and Edward’s old enemy close to the throne. (English) Stone Barrington #17. Hoping to resume estranged queen Isabella and her lover, Sir a quieter legal career after returning to Roger Mortimer. Yet even in such times the New York from Key West, Stone Barrington brutal slaughter of an entire family still has crosses paths with a beautiful Broadway the power to shock. Three further murders actress whose shady past places Stone and follow, and Bailiff Simon Puttock is drawn into downtown police officer Dino Bacchetti in a web of intrigue, as Roger Mortimer charges danger. (American) him to investigate the killings.(English) tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 9 CRIME CHRONICLE CRIME AUDIO Colin EVANS Steve HODEL Slaughter on a Snowy Morn Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Margery ALLINGHAM 320pp Pb $29.99 Further Serial Murders of Dr George Hill Flowers for the Judge 3 CDs $35.00 New York, 1916. Hodel 368pp Pb $14.95 The secrets of Charles Stielow A veteran LAPD homicide detective who the respected was convicted on a discovered that his own father was the publishing house phoney confession Black Dahlia killer shares his subsequent of Barnabus Ltd and the crooked investigations into his father’s other criminal stretch back many ‘expert’ testimony activities, which the author believes include years, but when one of a jumped-up unsolved murders spanning more than six of the directors is druggist, Albert decades. (American) found dead, locked Hamilton. Without Mark HOLLINGSWORTH in the company’s the efforts of Londongrad: From Russia with Cash – strongroom, it’s time Grace Humiston for Albert Campion to set to work puzzling – America’s most The Inside Story of the Oligarchs out the mysteries. (English) celebrated female 416pp Pb $24.99 When communism Lisa UNGER lawyer – Stielow would have gone to the electric chair. Grace saved him, but it was collapsed, Russian Fragile 10 CDs $39.95 oligarchs made See page 8 for summary. forensic science that released Stielow from prison after Charles Waite was able to tear colossal fortunes, Hamilton’s testimony to shreds. A true story many going to of wrongful conviction and redemption in London to enjoy CRIME NON-FICTION an age of bare-knuckle politics and cynical their newfound courtroom manoeuvring. (American) wealth. Yet darker Robin BOWLES events played Sean FEWSTER Justice Denied: An Investigation into the themselves City of Evil: The Truth About Adelaide’s Death of Jaidyn Leskie out: from the Strange and Violent Underbelly 414pp Pb $19.95 killing of ex-KGB 352pp Tp $35.00 agent Alexander The book which the Victorian police did Adelaide – an elegantly Litvinenko in not want written… In country Victoria on designed, civilised London, to the suspicious death of Stephen the night of 14 June 1997, sleeping toddler city – is the setting Curtis, the lawyer of many British Russians. Jaidyn Leskie is left alone in the front room for some of Australia’s This is the story of how Russia’s wealth was of his babysitter’s house. He vanishes. Within most bizarre crimes. harvested and spent by Roman Abramovich four weeks, his babysitter is arrested, charged From the murder of on his beloved Chelsea Football Club, and and finally acquitted. Case closed? Not quite! a transvestite, pro- some of it spent by Boris Berezovsky in his (Australian) wrestling truck driver by battles with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. (English) Caesar CAMPBELL his two lesbian lodgers Paul B KIDD Enforcer: The Real Story of One of during an argument Never to be Released: Volume 4 Australia’s Most Feared Outlaw Bikers over a camera; to the 188pp Tp $29.95 Tp $34.99 prosecution of an There is no death penalty in Australia and the Caesar Campbell is elderly couple by the RSPCA for keeping sentence ‘never to be released’ is reserved for the former sergeant- 120 stray dogs and six pigs in horrific the worst of the worst. In this volume, Paul at-arms and chief conditions. More than just a collection of Kidd – Australia’s leading authority on serial enforcer for the attention-grabbing cases from the past 10 killers – includes cases that are the most evil Comancheros, and years, this book examines what lies beneath in Australia’s crime history. (Australian) the founding member this conservative, unassuming state capital. and sergeant-at-arms (Australian) Paul B KIDD of the Australian Jonathan GREEN Till Death Do Us Part 240pp Pb $19.95 Bandidos. This Murder in the High Himalaya: Australian True Crime. Every year, many volume follows his Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet Australian marriages end in murder. recruitment into the Sometimes these killings follow years of 304pp Hb $39.99 Comancheros, to the abuse by one party, and at other times they This is the unforgettable split within the club seemingly out of the blue. What sort of account of the brutal that led to the foundation of the Bandidos person turns from loving spouse to killer? As killing by Chinese and the bloody massacre at Milperra that these chilling stories show, there is no type… border guards of resulted from it – a massacre that saw the (Australian) Kelsang Namtso, a death of two of Caesar’s brothers, and bullet 17-year-old Tibetan Paul B KIDD wounds and a lengthy jail term for him. Never nun fleeing to India. Shallow Graves 254pp Pb $19.95 before has someone so respected in the bikie Witnessed by dozens Shallow graves play a grim part in many gangs opened a window onto their world. of Western climbers, of Australia’s most mysterious, bizarre and (Australian) Kelsang’s death sparked horrendous murder cases. And Australia’s an international debate bushland, deserts, foreshores, beaches over China’s savage and suburban landscapes offer many oppression of Tibet. opportunities for a murderer to hide his Adventure reporter Jonathan Green gained victim. (Australian) rare entrance into this shadow land at the rooftop of the world. In his affecting portrait of modern Tibet, he raises enduring questions about morality and the lengths to which we go to achieve freedom. (American) www.abbeys.com.au 10 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Keith SCHAFFERIUS Adam SHAND Linda STRATMANN The Retriever 288pp Tp $35.00 Big Shots: Carl Williams and the Gangland Fraudsters and Charlatans For more than Murders 432pp Tp $32.95 252pp Pb $24.95 three decades, the In 2003, Adam Shand In 1817, a Australian Keith set out to unravel young woman Schafferius has Melbourne’s bloody of ‘exotic specialised in child gangland wars and appearance’ retrieval cases, became embroiled in was found slipping into other a world where feuds wandering countries to retrieve raged between rival near Bristol, children taken families and a new speaking in a overseas against generation clashed language that court orders after with the criminal no one could the break-up of their Establishment. In understand parents’ marriage. this updated edition, – except a Over the years, Shand takes the Portuguese sailor who claimed she was a Keith has built up contacts, paid thousands in reader into the heart of the city’s multibillion- Sumatran princess named Caraboo. She bribes to officials and been on international dollar ‘disorganised crime’ scene as he meets became a national celebrity, entertaining wanted lists. This is Keith’s remarkable story the key figures and suspects, including Carl distinguished visitors. A few weeks later, she - his background as an ASIO spy and his and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many was exposed as Mary Baker, the daughter of incredible retrieval missions that have taken others. (Australian) a cobbler from Devonshire. Her deception him to all parts of the world. (Australian) is one of several intriguing stories of 19th Lindsay SIMPSON century fraudsters brought to light in this Ian PARRY-OGDEN Honeymoon Dive Pb $34.99 volume, which exposes the seedy side of Crime Investigation Australia: Book 1 On the Great Barrier Reef, a diver took one of life in which corruption, avarice and scandal 188pp Pb $29.95 many underwater photos. But in the lower hold sway. (English) This volume explores some of the most right-hand corner of one shot, Tina Watson’s gripping and compelling cases in Australia, lifeless body lay on the ocean floor. How Robert WAINWRIGHT through access to the key detectives, family could this young woman have died, just Born or Bred: Martin Bryant members and witnesses. Foreword by Paul seven minutes into her dive, when Gabe – The Making of a Mass Murderer Kidd. (Australian) Watson - her dive buddy and husband of 336pp Pb $24.99 Vikki PETRAITIS only 11 days - was a certified rescue diver? As Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and Forensics 255 Pb $19.95 the tragedy unfolded, disturbing evidence injured 37 during the Port Arthur massacre mounted that something more sinister may Vikki Petraitis has interviewed Australian in Tasmania in 1996 – a crime for which he have occurred. (Australian) police from Forensics, Fingerprints, Criminal is serving 35 life sentences in Hobart. In this Investigation Units and Homicide to write Clive SMALL chilling account, the authors gained access to tapes made following the murders and these stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. Betrayed: The Shocking Story of Two explored the Bryant’s family history, dating In all these cases, forensics played a key Undercover Cops 288pp Pb $27.99 back 150 years. (Australian) role in bringing the perpetrators to justice. Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police But unlike the fictional TV series, dogged believing they could make a difference, but DVDs determination of the police plays just as their whole life became a lie. They were cops important a role as modern technology. pretending to be crooks. Surviving in a world Anna Pihl 3 DVDs $39.95 (Australian) of drugs, violence and corruption, Joe and Anna Pihl is a divorced Danish cop who Tim PRIEST Jessie appeared as a drug-dealer and his lives with a young boy names Mikkel and On Deadly Ground: The Assassination of girlfriend. When they could no longer endure her gay landlord Jan. She has joined the John Newman 188pp Pb $32.95 the pressure, they found themselves alone. Copenhagen Police, but it’s a tough beat This is a searing expose of a police system out and a tough squad, and she has to scrap for John Newman, member of the NSW of control; of senior officers who put secrecy everything she gets. A strong supporting Parliament for the seat of Cabramatta, was above all else, nearly destroying the lives of cast provide the backbone to this very killed in a drive-by shooting outside his home two honest cops. (Australian) contemporary cop’s tale. in 1994. He was the second politician to be assassinated in Australia. Ex-detective Tim Carlton SMITH Paul Temple: Collection 1 Priest tells the real story behind the murder. Cold as Ice 288pp Pb $14.95 3 DVDs $39.95 (Australian) Kathleen Savio was Paul Temple is a crime writer whose pursuit Helen READE married to Drew of life’s richest pleasures leads to mystery, Little Girls Lost 304pp Pb $19.95 Peterson for 11 years mayhem and murder. Set against the before filing for divorce backdrop of some of the world’s most This volume tells the stories of the in 2003. The next year, exclusive international locations, Temple horrendous murders of four girls, and their she was found dead and his beautiful wife are never far from parents’ battles to bring about changes in in her bathtub. Her where the action is as the jet-set dice with the law to ease the unbearable burden of drowning appeared danger and death. homicide for the families and loved ones of to be an accident and the victims who will tragically, but inevitably, Ellery Queen: The Complete Series no one questioned it. follow in their footsteps. (Australian) 7 DVDs $49.95 But when Peterson’s next wife Stacy went Set in the 1940s, Jim Hutton stars as Ellery missing, the former Queen – the literary hero who helps his Illinois cop became a suspect. With Stacy Police Inspector father unravel the clues presumed dead, authorities exhumed Savio’s in the cleverest of crimes. Never before body. 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