“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #270 July 2008

CRIME WRITER’S ASSOCIATION (UK) DAGGERS SHORTLIST 2008 DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER 2008 CWA FOR NON-FICTION The Tin Roof Blowdown Nationality: Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale by James Lee Burke (Pb $23.00) by Kester Aspden (Hb $45.00 T/O) Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotteril (Pb $22.95) The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Blood from Stone by Frances Fyfield (Tp $33.00) Gerardi? Night Work by Steve Hamilton (Tp $33.00) by Francisco Goldman (Hb $45.00) What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Pb $23.00) Violation by David Rose (Pb $25.00 T/O) A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris (Tp $32.95) The Lost Boy by Duncan Staff (Pb $21.95) Judges’ comment: Entries at the top end were very strong The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road and we struggled to narrow down to a shortlist. Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Tp $29.95) DUNCAN LAWRIE INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2008 Into the Darkness The Patience of the Spider by Peter Zimonjic (Pb $24.95) (due Sept) by Andrea Camilleri (Tp $32.95) (Italy) (T/O = To Order only) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Judges’ comment: The shortlist is extremely strong – all six by Stieg Larsson (Tp $32.95) (Sweden) books are very well written indeed and each has great merit. Lorraine Connection CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER 2008 by Dominique Manotti (Pb $29.95) () The Night of the Mi’raj by Zoe Ferraris (Tp $33.00) A Deal with the Devil Die with Me by Elena Forbes (Tp $29.95) by Martin Suter (Pb $29.95) (Germany) Absolution This Night’s Foul Work by Caro Ramsay (Tp $29.95, Pb $19.95) (due Aug) by Fred Vargas (Tp $32.95) (France) The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees (Pb $19.95) CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2008 Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Tp $32.95) Ritual by Mo Hayder (Tp $32.95) This award is in memory of CWA founder John Creasy. 2008 See You by Gregg Hurwitz (Tp $32.95) marks the centenary of his birth on 17 September 1908. Shatter CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2008 by Michael Robotham (Tp $33.00) (Australian) This annual award is given to “the author of whose Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Tp $32.95) work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to (UK) library The Echelon by David Stone (Tp $32.95) users”. Shortlisted authors are: Judges’ comment: Amongst an avalanche of formulaic and Elizabeth Corley Andrew Martin Denise Mina derivative submissions, it was refreshing to find a core of Craig Russell C J Sansom Chris Simms distinctive and genuinely thrilling novels. Winners will be announced on 10 July and will appear in our August Crime Chronicle. More details can be found on the CWA website www.thecwa.co.uk. - Peter

ABBEY’S TURNS 40 : A Continuing Retrospective: Part 7

One of the things that has interested me over the past 40 years is the growth in Historical Crime. It probably all started with Ellis Peters and her Brother Cadfael series (most of which are still available), starting in 1977 with A Morbid Taste for Bones. All of these are set in medieval England during the reign of King Stephen. Since then, we have had mysteries set in Ancient Greece - Margaret Doody; Ancient Egypt - Paul Doherty and Ancient Rome - Lindsey Davis, Paul Doherty, John Maddox Roberts, Rosemary Rowe, Steven Saylor, Marilyn Todd and David Wishart. Medieval mystery authors include Maureen Ash (13thC), Alys Clare (12thC), Margaret Frazer (15thC), Susanna Gregory (14thC), Michael Jecks (14thC), Bernard Knight (12thC), I J Parker (11thC Japan), Candace Robb (14thC), Kate Sedley (15thC), Peter Tremayne (7thC Ireland) and Robert van Gulik (7thC China). Modern historical authors include Laurie King, Carole Nelson Douglas, Barrie Roberts (all 19thC Holmesiana), Boris Akunin (19thC Russia), Bruce Alexander (18thC), Stephanie Barron (19thC), Carrie Bebris (19thC), Emily Brightwell (19thC), David Dickinson (Edwardian), Jason Goodwin (19thC Turkey), Karen Harper (16thC), Claude Izner (19thC France), Deryn Lake (18thC), Clyde Linsley (19thC USA), Edward Marston (17thC), R N Morris (19thC Russia), Robin Paige (19thC), Anne Perry (19thC), Elizabeth Peters (19thC Egypt) and Victoria Thompson (19thC USA) to mention but a few. (Note: if no country mentioned, it is the UK). So whatever your favourite historical period, we’re bound to be able to find a mystery for you! - Peter 2 Modern Crime Donna ANDREWS Mark BILLINGHAM The Penguin Who Knew Too Death Message 496pp Pb $20.00 Mark ABERNETHY Much 352pp Pb $13.95 Tom Thorne #7. The first message sent Golden Serpent Meg Langslow to Thorne’s phone was just a blurred 552pp Pb $19.95 Mystery #8. Meg image of a dead man’s face. But who was Alan McQueen was the Aussie Langslow never he, who sent the photograph and why? spook who shot and killed the thought that Then another picture arrives and Thorne terrorist Abu Sabaya. Years later, moving into a new gets his first clue, a link to a killer he’d McQueen discovers that Sabaya is not home with her put away years before and who is still in dead. Instead he has teamed up with a fiancée would be prison. This man has manipulated rogue CIA veteran and is armed with a easy, but a another inmate to plot revenge on cache of stolen VX nerve agent that he’s basement full of everyone he blames for his incarceration, threatening to deploy. Battling to stay one arctic penguins and for the murder of his family while he step ahead of Sabaya’s hit-men, CIA and a dead body! was inside. Newly released, this convict double-agents and corruption within The zookeeper has no fear and no feelings. Thorne Australian intelligence, Mac must find himself has gone knows that there is no killer more the stolen VX before it’s too late. Due Jul missing and only the animals know the dangerous than one who has nothing left (New Zealand) truth about his whereabouts. Now it’s up to lose. Due Jul (English) to Meg to find out more about her DOA Xavier-Marie BONNOT house guest before the ice melts on this First Fingerprint 397pp Tp $29.95 KEY very cold case. Due Jul (American) Michel de Palma #1. In an underwater Sarah ANDREWS cavern off the coast of Marseilles are the academic In Cold Pursuit: A Mystery from the first human engravings known to man. Last Continent 384pp Pb $13.95 De Palma heads to the University to banking Em Hansen #11. Valena Walker is investigate, but the clique of pre-history headed to Antarctica to study glaciology professors he encounters is as secretive as canine detectives with Dr Emmett Vanderzee. But when the cave drawing itself. Slowly and alone, clerical she arrives she discovers that her mentor de Palma unravels a mystery that dates has been charged with murder. What back to the Ice Age, and comes closer to cosy/malice domestic really happened to the reporter who discovering the killer’s identity. Due Jul contradicted Emmett’s research? Now (French) culinary/food Valena must brave the elements and chart Anthony BOURDAIN a course to clear his name. Due Jul Bone in the Throat (1995) fbi (American) 332pp Pb $19.95 David BALDACCI All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill. feline detectives Stone Cold 400pp Pb $20.00 The chef has a smack habit and the FBI Camel Club #3. Casino king and thug has set up the owner. As depraved as it is forensic Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle hilarious, Anthony Bourdain’s first novel Conroy, who conned him out of millions. is street smart and spiced with drugged- horse racing mystery Stone and his colleagues must protect her. up savvy, foul-mouthed feds and salty Yet their skills may not be enough when a mob speak. Due Jul (American) Journalists deadly new opponent rips off the veneer Rhys BOWEN of Stone’s own mysterious past. As bodies Her Royal Spyness medical and institutions topple, the story rockets 336pp Pb $15.95 toward a shattering finale that will leave military Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie the survivors of this explosive tale #2. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte changed forever. Due Jul (American) native american Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat Paul BATISTA broke. She’s bolted Scotland, her brother police procedural Death’s Witness 384pp Pb $16.95 and her betrothed for London. The place When Tom is where she’ll experience freedom, learn political/legal found murdered, his life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for widow Julie begins HRH, and find a dead Frenchman in her psychological to uncover the secret tub. Now her new job is to clear her of world that her family name. Due Jul (English) private eye husband kept from Ellen BYERRUM her. She learns that Armed and Glamorous romantic suspense he was in league 336pp Pb $13.95 with a drug lord and Crime of Fashion #6. A wealthy DC sport involved in money socialite is discovered dead outside the laundering. As Julie classroom of unappreciated fashion spy comes to terms with reporter Lacey Smithsonian. Was the Tom’s double life, she must also survive victim on her way to share a dangerous suspense/thriller when her husband’s murderers are secret? And what does it have to do with searching for their lost millions, and the a missing Louis Vuitton vintage makeup Pb = Paperback outcome of a far-reaching political trial case? Lacey must mix style with Tp = Trade Paperback hangs in the balance. Due Jul (American) substance to unravel these tangled (slightly larger) threads before she, or one of her friends, Hb = Hardback gets caught in the sights of a cold-blooded AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB killer. Due Jul (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Leslie CAINE Martina COLE Robert CRAIS Poisoned by Gilt Faces 672pp Pb $22.00 Chasing Darkness 336pp Pb $13.95 Before Danny Cadogan’s 14th 320pp Tp $33.00 Domestic Bliss Mystery #6. To designers birthday, his father leaves. Determined to Elvis Cole #11. The corpse of a recluse who Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert a protect his mother, something changes in apparently committed suicide is found. competition to design and build the most Danny and he turns into a young man set He holds an album of photographs of earth-friendly home seemed like a good on making his way in a violent world. He seven young women who have been idea. But the judge is dead - poisoned by becomes the most feared Face in the murdered, each photo taken just after some supposedly non-toxic gold paint. Smoke. Danny rules his wife Mary with their deaths. Until now the murders had The death is also poisoning their romantic an iron will. If Mary breaks her silence, it never been connected and the news for relationship. When another figure in the could shake Danny’s criminal empire to Elvis Cole is bad. Only one suspect had contest dies and Sullivan becomes the very core. And for a Face at the top of been charged. LAPD had a confession but distracted by an attractive divorcee, Erin his game, the only way is down. Due Jul with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, he goes on a mission to find the killer and to (English) walked free. That suspect was the suicide. expose the true Steve Sullivan - and the Chris COLLETT Did Cole’s actions free a killer to commit designs he’s hiding in his heart. Due Jul Blood Money 272pp Pb $20.00 more murders? Due Jul (American) (American) DI Tom Mariner becomes the lead Cameron CRUISE Maxim CHATTAM on the case when a six-week-old is Dark Matter 384pp Pb $13.95 The Cairo Diary 340pp Pb $23.00 abducted from the local crèche. What Street kids are disappearing in a Cairo, 1928: young appears to be a random kidnap begins to California town. FBI agent Carin Barnes children have been look like a well-planned operation. discovers that she has personal found mutilated in the Mariner discovers that the baby’s father connection to the case - one that involves tombs outside the city works for a scientific research company a madman who is using psychic twins to and British inspector that has long been the target of animal abduct homeless adolescents for mind- Jeremy Matheson rights activists. Two days later, when the altering experiments. Due Jul (American) follows the trail of the incident comes to an astonishing Clive CUSSLER monster, which takes conclusion, a crude note seems to confirm Plague Ship 512pp Tp $32.95 him into the depths of that animal rights protesters were behind Oregon Files #5. Cabrillo and his crew underground Cairo the scare. But when one of the crèche come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. and his own tortured workers is killed in a hit and run, the case Bodies litter its deck and, as Cabrillo tries past. Mont-Saint-Michel, 2005: spirited is blown wide open. Due Jul (English) to determine what happened, the ship away from for her own protection, Thomas H COOK explodes. Cabrillo is plunged into a Marion has taken refuge in a remote Master of the Delta mystery as intricate as any he has known monastery. When she finds a diary dating 336pp Tp $29.95 against a cult with lethal plans for the from 1928 penned by Jeremy Matheson, When Eddie was five years old, his father human race - plans he may already be too she is inexorably pulled into the past as killed a college girl and buried the pieces late to stop. Due Jul (American) she is being watched, and taunting notes in woods. Where Eddie’s family name has Mary DAHEIM and riddles urge her to give back what is brought only infamy, Jack’s has bestowed Scots on the Rocks not hers. Due Jul (French) respect. To exorcise burden, Jack 384pp Pb $13.95 Paul CHRISTOPHER encourages Eddie to confront past and Bed and Breakfast Mystery #23. When Judith Aztec Heresy 352pp Pb $15.95 discover truth about his father. Due Jul and her cousin Renie vacation in a Finn Ryan Mystery #4. In search of a (American) haunted Scottish castle they meet Harry Spanish galleon in the Caribbean, Patricia CORNWELL Gibbs, who is estranged from his wife and archaeologist Finn Ryan and her partner Book of the Dead is found dead shortly after they arrive. His Lord Billy Pilgrim find evidence of a lost 400pp Pb $20.00 widow is a suspect but there are plenty to Aztec Codex said to reveal the location of Kay Scarpetta #15. The ‘book of the dead’ go around including a sleazy CEO, a wily the lost City of Gold. Also on the trail is is the morgue log. Scarpetta moves to attorney, and Chuckie, the dwarfish the head of a religious cadre and a South Carolina and opens a private epileptic to name a few. There are enough sociopathic billionaire. But Finn and Billy forensic pathology practice. It seems like suspects to overwhelm any police force, come upon a more explosive secret that an ideal situation, until the murders but no challenge is too daunting for the will take them from the Yucatan jungles begin. A woman is ritualistically cousins. Due Jul (American) to the Sonoran Desert, where the stakes murdered. The body of an abused boy is K O DAHL are life and death. Due Jul (Canadian) found dumped. A 16 year-old tennis star The Man in the Window Jeffrey COHEN is found nude and mutilated in Rome. 496pp Pb $19.95 It Happened One Knife Before she is through, that book of the Frank Frolich #2. Reidar 304pp Pb $15.95 dead will contain many names, possibly Folke Jesperson is Double Feature Mystery her own. Due Jul (American) found dead, his naked #2. Elliot Freed is Catherine COULTER body in his shop, red beyond happy when Double Take 368pp Pb $15.95 string round his neck, legendary comics Lillis FBI Thriller #11. The police are three crosses and “195” & Townes appear at his convinced that Julia Ransom murdered written on his chest. refurbished all-comedy her husband but have no evidence. She is Gunnarstranda and theatre. But when later attacked by a man and Special Agent Frolich are called to the insinuations arise that Cheney Stone saves her and realises the scene. What will be the duo was involved attempt on Julia’s life has to connect to uncovered is a country where victims, in a decades-old the murder of her husband, and reopens perpetrators and even police officers are Hollywood murder, Elliot sets out to the investigation. Due Jul (American) haunted by the past, still trying to cope prove the rumors wrong. Due Jul with the dark memories of the Nazi (American) occupation. Due Jul (Norwegian)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Jeffrey DEAVER Aaron ELKINS Kathryn FOX The Broken Window Tp $33.00 Little Tiny Teeth Skin and Bone Lincoln Rhyme #8. 272pp Pb $15.95 384pp Pb $20.00 Rhyme’s cousin has Professor Gideon Oliver Mystery #12. Detectives Kate Farrer and Oliver Parke been arrested for Sailing the Amazon, Skeleton Detective investigate the murder of young woman murder but Rhyme Gideon Oliver is on vacation. But then whose autopsy reveals she had recently agrees to check headhunters narrowly miss killing the given birth, but there is no sign of the things out. The true group leader and a deranged passenger baby. Suspicion falls on Mark Dobbie for killer knows every kills a botanist and flees. When a fresh the disappearance of a teenage girl, and detail about the lives skeleton turns up in the river, Gideon is when drugs are found in his apartment, of his victims and sure that, in this jungle full of predators, they wonder if they have uncovered a those he sets up to humans may be the deadliest of all. Due serial date rapist-turned-murderer. Then take the fall. He Jul (American) a young paraplegic is burnt to death in commits the crime, plants Kjell ERIKSSON his home. Shocking links to all three incontrovertible evidence and escapes. The Cruel Stars of Night crimes emerge and Kate Farrer’s past Rhyme and the team have to find out 320pp Pb $23.00 demons come back to haunt her. But she who at the data mining company is Ann Lindell #2. Laura Hindersten goes to must fight them - her partner’s life getting access to this information. the police to report that her father, a local depends on it. (Australian) Meanwhile the villain realises he’s being professor, is missing. Inspector Ann Tara FRENCH pursued and turns his knowledge of data Lindell can find no motive for the man’s The Likeness Tp $33.00 into a weapon. Due Jul (American) disappearance. Then two corpses turn up. Ron Ryan and Cassie Maddox #2. Arnaud DELALANDE One of the professor’s colleagues believes Detective Cassie Maddox is called to a The Dante Trap 400pp Pb $23.00 there is a link between the corpses and murder scene and she finds the victims ID Venice, 1756. An actor has been the disappearance of Professor says she is Lexie Madison, the identity murdered. A secret investigation is led by Hindersten. But as the pressure on Cassie used years ago undercover. Cassie Pietro Viravolta. Murder follows murder, Lindell increases, she is shocked to is sent undercover in the dead girls place and as Viravolta begins to draw the discover that the killer has many more to pick up information the police would connections between these deaths, he diabolical schemes in store. Due Jul never hear and tempt the killer to finish finds himself embroiled in a terrible game (Swedish) the job. So Cassie moves into Whitethorn of cat and mouse. He is drawn further Zoë FERRARIS House, poses as a post-grad student, and into the inferno, into the heart of a secret Night of the Mi’raj prepares to enter Lexies world. Due Jul sect and a plot to bring about the 368pp Tp $33.00 (Irish) downfall of the city. Due Jul (French) Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is Michelle GAGNON trusted to find the 16-year-old daughter Boneyard 384pp Pb $13.95 Aurelio Zen Omnibus #1: of a wealthy Saudi dynasty. Her body is Kelly Jones Mystery #2. FBI special Ratking/ Vendetta/ found but Nayir’s feels compelled to agent Kelly Jones has never worked a 768pp Tp $35.00 uncover the truth about her death. His case as disturbing as this. A mass grave This brilliantly evocative Italian crime search takes him far from his natural unearthed on the Appalachian Trail puts series features the irascible Aurelio Zen. terrain to the city of Jeddah and forces Kelly at the head of an investigation that Due Jul (English) him to work closely with Katya Hijazi, a crosses the line, from Massachusetts to Tim DOWNS forensic scientist and he finds himself Vermont, from a serial killer to a copycat First the Dead 363pp Hb $29.95 struggling with emotions and loyalties he nemesis. Due Jul (American) A Bug Man #3. has never before questioned. Due Jul Ken GELDER & Rachael WEAVER (Eds) Forensic entomologist (American) The Anthology of Colonial Australian Nick Polchek realises Steve FISHER Crime Fiction 280pp Tp $32.95 that some of the No House Limit: A Novel of Las Ex-convicts, bushrangers, prospectors, bodies in the waters Vegas 224pp Pb $13.95 forgers and impostors, thieves and flooding New Orleans Hard Case Crime. Casino owner Joe Martin murderers flow through the stories that were dead prior to faces down a Syndicate-backed gambler make up this collection, challenging Hurricane Katrina. in a marathon craps game, with millions colonial law and order. This anthology Someone thought the of dollars and possibly even his life at collects the best examples of colonial hurricane would allow stake. First publication for over 45 years. Australian crime fiction and is a unique them to get away with Due Jul (American) collection of disturbing mysteries and murder. Nick must fight a desperate race Karin FOSSUM gruesome tales that tap into the fears and against time and decomposing evidence to Black Seconds 352pp Pb $24.95 anxieties of Australian life. Due Jul raise the truth. Due Jul (American) Inspector Sejer #5. Nine-year-old Ida (Australian) Kaitlyn DUNNETT sets off on her bike to buy sweets. 35 Leah GIARRATANO Kilt Dead 256pp Pb $13.95 minutes after Ida should have come Voodoo Doll Tp $32.95 Liss MacCrimmon Mystery #1. home, her mother Helga, starts to worry Sergeant Jill Jackson is transferred Professional Scottish dancer Liss and she contacts the police. Volunteers to a task force targeting gang related MacCrimmon returns to her hometown comb the neighbourhood but there are no home invasions in Sydney. The gang is in Maine, only to become the prime traces of Ida or her bike. As the media responsible for at least five home suspect in a murder. Now Liss must do frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer is calm and invasions over the last two months. On some fancy footwork to prove she’s reassuring. But he finds the case Jill’s first day violence has escalated to innocent, while trying to stay alive. Due puzzling. Usually missing children are murder and Jill and the team are now Jul (American) found within 48 hours. Ida Joner seems to hunting a psychopath. One of the victims have vanished without a trace. Due Jul knows who the psychopath is - a figure (Norwegian) from his past who has come back to haunt him. Due Jul (Australian)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Leah GIARRATANO Robert HARRIS Mary Ellen HUGHES Vodka Doesn’t Freeze The Ghost 400pp Pb $21.95 Paper Thin Alibi Pb $21.95 A professional ghostwriter 256pp Pb $13.95 A man is murdered, but it’s clear to accustomed to working with fading rock Craft Corner Mystery Sergeant Jill Jackson this was no ordinary stars and minor celebrities, our narrator #3. Sales at the Craft victim: someone has stopped a dangerous jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs Corner start to paedophile. Jill is ambivalent about of Britain’s former prime minister. But it crumple when Jo pursuing the killer, but when more men doesn’t take him long to realise his McAllister becomes known to police as child sex offenders die mistake. His predecessor died in a suspect in her she is forced to face the fact that a serial suspicious circumstances, and the ex- rivals’ murder. But killer is on the loose. Due Jul (Australian) prime minister turns out to be a man with during paper craft Mary Elizabeth GOLDMAN secrets that are returning to haunt him. classes, Jo and her To Love and Die in Dallas Due Jul (English) friends discuss 288pp Pb $13.95 John Twelve HAWKS motives and means A diary recalls the The Dark River 512pp Pb $21.95 rather than origami teenage years of four Fourth Realm #2. Fear stalks our lives. and collage. Together they track the best friends. But time Everywhere we go, someone somewhere twisted trail of a killer, before another life changes everything. It is always watching. We are being is ripped to shreds. Due Jul (American) is now the 21st controlled and we sacrifice freedoms. We Gregg HURWITZ century and those are all victims. There are some who will The Crime Writer 320pp Tp $27.95 carefree teenagers are fight to protect those freedoms. They are Drew Danner, a crime novelist, the power players in off the grid. Gabriel Corrigan is one such awakens with no memory of being found Dallas. The murder of man. The system doesn’t like it. It says convulsing over his ex’s body, holding a one of the friends, that you cannot opt out, you must knife, her blood beneath his nails. Not Lindsay ‘Rose’ Mitchell, turns Dallas participate. And it will do whatever it knowing if he’s guilty or innocent the society upside down. Her funeral brings takes to return. Due Jul (American) writer must now become the protagonist. the three remaining friends together Richard HELLER Soon Drew closes in on clues he may or again, and they vow to find out what The 13th Apostle 432pp Pb $9.00 may not have left for himself, and as really happened. Due Jul (American) 36AD: Micah, Jesus’ friend and the another young woman is murdered he Juan Jurado GOMEZ 13th Apostle inscribes a message upon has to ask difficult questions not of others God’s Spy 384pp Pb $20.00 which mankind’s fate would one day be but of himself. Due Jul (American) Following the death of Pope John Paul determined. Present day: Internet Peter JAMES II Rome is under siege to foreign press and forensic specialist, Gil Pearson is Dead Mans Footsteps the last thing it needs is a serial killer on recruited to decipher an ancient diary and 512pp Tp $33.00 the loose. When a cardinal is found reveal Micah’s hidden message, which Roy Grace #4. Abby stepped in the lift and murdered serial profiler Paola Dicanti is may lead to the most mysterious of the realised she had just made the worst called in. This is not the first victim. Paola Dead Sea Scrolls. Gil becomes embroiled mistake of her life. Amid the mayhem of begins to build her profile and is helped by in an international mystery spanning the morning of 911, Ronnie Wilson sees the Anthony Fowler, a priest from the States. 2000 years, and for which others would chance to disappear and reinvent himself But Fowler is no ordinary priest, he clearly gladly give their lives, or take his. Due Jul in another country. Five years later the has links to the CIA, and knows more (American) discovery of the remains of a woman’s about the serial killer than Paola could Reginald HILL body in a drain in Brighton, leads ever have guessed. Due Jul (Spanish) The Roar of the Butterflies Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on an Kathryn Miller HAINES 288pp Pb $15.95 enquiry spanning the globe, and into a The Winter of Her Discontent Joe Sixsmith #5. PI Joe Sixsmith is desperate race to save the life of a woman 336pp Tp $27.95 suddenly very popular. He’s being being hunted down like an animal in the Rosie Winter Mystery #2. Rosie is keeping implored to come to the rescue of streets of Brighton. Due Jul (English) company with her mob pal, Al, who’s Christian Porphyry, whose family owns J A JANCE despite his illicit line of work, is no killer. the most exclusive country club in Luton. Justice Denied When he’s fingered for his girlfriend’s Political boss ‘King Rat’ Ratcliffe is 384pp Pb $19.95 murder, Rosie and cast mate Jayne set out offering him surveillance work in Spain. J P Beaumont Mystery to clear his name, and plunge into a Sixsmith is more intrigued by the first #18. J P Beaumont is backstage drama. But the plot could soon case, especially when a witness vanishes. to find out what be taking a lethal turn, bringing the curtain Joe is out of his depth and is in grave peril really happened in down on Rosie and Jayne. Due Jul of discovering just how dangerous golf the death of an ex- (American) can be. (English) con. The ex-con really Denise HAMILTON Linda HOWARD had turned over a The Last Embrace Up Close and Dangerous new leaf. Meanwhile, 400pp Tp $27.95 336pp Pb $20.00 Beau’s lover and This critically acclaimed Bailey Wingate is left in control of the fellow cop, Mel, is author delivers a fortune of her scheming adult looking into cold complex and stepchildren. Later, while flying to cases, but suddenly, her investigation has atmospheric noir Denver in a small plane the engine tentacles reaching to Beau’s, and the two thriller inspired by the sputters and fails but Cam, her sexy begin to uncover a conspiracy that could true unsolved case Texan pilot manages to crash-land the involve people within the halls of law involving the aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness, and enforcement. Due Jul (American) disappearance of actress struggling to douse her feelings for Cam, Jean Spangler in 1949. Bailey begins to wonder whether this was Due Jul (American) a mere accident. Due Jul (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Asa LARSSON Michael MACCONNELL Barry MAITLAND The Black Path Splinter 400pp Tp $33.00 Bright Air 304pp Tp $32.95 400pp Tp $23.95 Sarah Reilly #2. On a cliff-face in Rebecka Martinsson #3. The tortured body During her New Zealand, two of a woman was found on a frozen lake. investigation of men fall to their deaths. Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she America’s worst serial Four years before, needs help because the dead woman was killer Sarah Reilly’s Luce, another member a key player in a mining company whose father is kidnapped of the same group of tentacles reach across the globe. Soon and the man she loved friends, disappeared. attorney Rebecka Martinsson is prying is murdered. Refusing Two of the surviving into the affairs of the dead woman’s boss, offers of extended members, Luce’s ex- hose relationship with his star employee leave she launches lover Josh and best was both complex and ominous. But what herself back into an friend Anna, see a new Rebecka and Anna-Maria are about to investigation of the murder of a child of significance in her death. They follow the uncover is a tale as shocking as it is sad. wealthy parents under suspicious trail to Lord Howe Island, where they Due Jul (Swedish) circumstances. Due Jul (Australian) begin to suspect a conspiracy to hide what Jeff LINDSAY Hector MACDONALD really happened. Due Jul (Australian) Dexter in the Dark The Storm Prophet Dominique MANOTTI 384pp Pb $20.00 384pp Pb $19.95 Dead Horsemeat (2006) Dexter #3. When a student is found Kirsten McKenzie must win the Sydney 192pp Pb $22.95 seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god to Hobart yacht race. Her bank needs the In 1968 a group of school friends Dexter Morgan is brought in as forensic PR boost of a victory. Everyone thinks campaigned together at . Now analyst. He soon realises he could be she’ll do it except a boy called Moses who 1989, their paths cross in an entirely dealing with someone more sinister than claims to be able to see the future. He sees unexpected fashion as they start playing he is. When something creeps out your a storm, mountains of water and disaster. with fire, carried along by the euphoria friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you Petra Woods is Director of the Sydney born of power. Events begin to take off. know it’s serious. Gradually, Dexter Coastguard. She doesn’t want to believe Racehorses die under mysteriously, huge realises his stepchildren might share his Moses’ warning, but as his other quantities of cocaine appear at Parisian extracurricular interest in death... Due Jul predictions start coming true, she might parties and one of them meets a violent (American) not have a choice. Due Jul (Kenyan) end when a bomb explodes in his car. Due Joe LOOMIS Alistair MACLEAN Jul (French) High Season 304pp Pb $13.95 South by Java Head (1958) Guillermo MARTINEZ Frank Coffin Mystery #1. For Frank 448pp Pb $20.00 The Book of Murder Coffin, now a detective in Cape Cod, the February, 1942: Singapore lies burning, 224pp Tp $30.00 worst crimes were usually break-ins and defenceless before the Japanese. A last Art imitates life. Or does it? In domestic disputes. That is, until an boat slips into the South China Sea. On Buenos Aires, the protagonist of elevangelist turns up dead on the beach board are a desperate group of people, Martinez’s brilliant new mystery finds wearing a wig, a muumuu, and one each with a secret they will kill to keep himself unexpectedly tangled up in the pump. Frank and his partner begin safe. One thing is certain: the rotting story of Luciana, a former authors’ checking out the drag bars the reverend tramp steamer is a floating death trap, assistant and Kloster, a rival writer. In the might have frequented. When the body carrying a cargo of human TNT. Thus decade since she last had anything to do count starts to rise, it becomes clear that a begins an ordeal few are to survive. Due with either of the writers, nearly all her killer with an agenda is at large in Jul (Scottish) close family have died in unusual Provincetown. Due Jul (American) The Golden Rendezvous (1962) circumstances. Luciana’s convinced that 288pp Pb $20.00 her former employer Kloster is behind the The Headhunters For Chief Officer Johnny Carter aboard deaths, punishing her for her part in the 352pp Hb $50.00 the SS Campari the voyage has already break-up of his marriage in a murderous Hen Mallin #2. Jo and Gemma meet for begun badly. A member of the crew is frenzy of revenge worthy of one of his coffee every Saturday. One day Jo finds a missing and the stern-to-stern search only own novels. Due Jul (Argentinean) body on the beach, an unidentified serves to increase tension. Is the Campari Steve MARTINI woman, who has drowned. It takes DCI a victim of modern day piracy? And what Shadow of Power Hen Mallin and her team some time to of the strange cargo hidden below the 416pp Tp $33.00 discover who the woman is, and as they decks? Due Jul (Scottish) Paul Madriani #9 are investigating, Jo and Gemma keep The Dark Crusader Terry Scarborough is coming across dead bodies. Due Jul (1962) 288pp Pb $20.00 a legal scholar and (English) Eight specialists author of a Michael MACCONNELL in modern technology controversial book Maelstrom 384pp Pb $20.00 required. Eight about racial Sarah Reilly #1. Sarah Reilly is making scientists to fill them. discrimination. When a name for herself as a rookie FBI agent. Applicants to be he is found dead and Given the job of investigating a double married, with no a man with murder, she uncovers some strange children and prepared connections to hate anomalies in the modus operandi of the to travel. Highly groups is charged killer and a maelstrom of evil is persuasive salaries. with murder, attorney Paul Madriani is unleashed as a killer finds himself hunted One criminal offered the case. Madriani must pursue by more than one adversary. Due Jul mastermind. Eight an elusive witness within the confines of (Australian) scientists and their wives disappear. One the Supreme Court itself, a search that secret agent to stop him… Due Jul threatens the very foundation of (Scottish) government. Due Jul (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 7 Val MCDERMID Chris MOONEY Carol O’CONNELL Beneath the Bleeding Secret Friend 448pp Tp $32.95 Shark Music (2006) 496pp Pb $20.00 Darby McCormick #2. When Judith 464pp Pb $21.95 Tony Hill & Carol Jordan Chen is found floating in Boston’s Kathleen Mallory #9. A body is found in #5. When star Harbour, links are made with the murder Chicago, its hand pointing down Adams midfielder Robbie of student Emma Hale. CSI Darby Street. A silent caravan of cars drives Bishop is poisoned, McCormick is assigned to the case and down the road. They are the parents of profiler Dr Tony Hill uncovers a piece of overlooked evidence missing children all brought together by and DCI Carol Jordan from the Hale investigation which brings the word that children’s graves are being have their work cut out her into contact with a former FBI agent discovered along the road. Detective for them. Then a bomb now on the Most Wanted list after a string Sergeant Kathy Mallory drives with explodes in the football of bloody murders. When a third student them. The child she seeks, though, is stadium, causing goes missing, Darby is led into a game of herself - adopted off the streets, her father massive casualties, and another man dies cat-and-mouse with links to the past - and unknown, and her mother dead. During from poisoning. Is there a link between a man who speaks to the Blessed Virgin. the next few days, Mallory will find the cases? Due Jul (Scottish) A man who wants to be a secret friend to herself hunting a killer like none she has Cody MCFADYEN the girls he abducts. Due Jul (American) come across before, and uncovering the The Darker Side 352pp Tp $33.00 Hunter MORGAN secrets that have haunted her all her life. Smoky Barrett #3. Don’t Turn Around Due Jul (American) FBI Agent Smoky 384pp Pb $13.95 Susan PARISI Barrett is called in to Casey McDaniel, a domestic violence Blood of Dreams handle the case of a victims’ advocate, finds her life turned 420pp Pb $24.95 serial killer who upside down after her friend’s killer is set Pleasure rules in 18th century Venice. But appears to have free and she discovers that someone is while hedonists delight in the Carnevale, committed a truly stalking her. Due Jul (American) a killer stalks his victims, believing he has horrific number of Steve MOSBY found the answer to immortality. Only murders already. The Cry for Help 288pp Tp $33.00 one woman has the power to stop the killer is someone who Dave Lewis is a man with a slaughter. But as the killer draws closer, uses his victim’s history - his brother’s murder, his she uncovers a trail of sacrifice and deepest secrets to destroy them. Smoky is parents’ grief, his lost love, Tori. betrayal leading back into her past. To under intense pressure to get results. Detective Sam Currie failed to prevent his unmask the murderer, she must set a trap Who will the next victim be? Everyone in son’s death but his priority now is a killer with the power to destroy them all. Due the world has secrets. Even Smoky. Due who is stalking the city, abducting girls Jul (Australian) Jul (American) and sending texts to their families before Robert B PARKER Andy McNAB he kills them. When Lewis appears to Stranger in Paradise Crossfire 560pp Pb $21.95 connect both investigations, it’s an 256pp Tp $29.95 Body guarding a TV crew on the opportunity Currie can’t resist. Due Jul Jesse Jones #7. Jesse streets of Basra, Nick Stone seems certain (English) Stone is now a police to die when gunmen attack. Only the Walter MOSLEY chief in reporter’s swift action saves him. When Fear of the Dark Massachusetts. the reporter vanishes, presumed 288pp Pb $23.00 When Crow, an kidnapped, Stone is asked by the Fearless Jones #3. ‘I’m in trouble, Paris.’ Apache hit man, Intelligence Service to find him. The trail For Paris Minton they mean only one turns up in Stone’s leads from Iraq to London, Dublin, and thing: that his neck is on the line too. office, he is ultimately Kabul - a city where When his lowlife cousin utters them, intrigued. 10 years governments, terrorism and big business Paris keeps the door to his bookshop before, Crow was collide. Stone’s nightmare is only just firmly closed. But before long Paris is part of a gang that beginning - for the hunter has become the paying a call on his long-time friend and had taken hostages hunted. Due Jul (English) bodyguard, Fearless Jones. Criss-crossing when a bank raid went wrong. The Jenni MILLS the complicated landscape of 1950s Los hostages were released, but he also got Crow Stone 400pp Pb $25.00 Angeles, Paris and Fearless find away with enough money not to have to Kit Parry is desperate women, secret lives, and more work again. So why is Crow back in reluctant to take the job than one dead body along the way. Due town? Due Jul (American) shoring up the ancient Jul (American) James PATTERSON quarries beneath her The Dangerous Days of Daniel X hometown of Bath, a 272pp Tp $32.95 place as riddled with With supreme abilities, like being able to memories as it is with shape-shift and move objects with his Roman ruins. Someone mind, Daniel is strong enough to take on wants her out of Bath anything in the world. It’s the things from but who was it that ‘beyond’ this planet that are the real brought her childhood problem. Daniel possesses a coveted List - to an abrupt end in the summer of her 14th that belonged to his father, before he was year? When Kit stumbles across evidence brutally murdered - targeting of a lost Mithraic temple, the mysteries in intergalactic criminals preying on the her own past become entangled with a human race. Now, Daniel vows to take on search for what could be the his father’s dangerous mission as the archaeological discovery of the decade. Alien Hunter. Due Jul (American) Due Jul (English)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 8 Ridley PEARSON Elizabeth PETERS Phil RICKMAN Killer Weekend 384pp Pb $19.95 Sons of the Wolf (1967) The Fabric of Sin Controversial New York State 240pp Pb $15.95 352pp Pb $19.95 Attorney General Liz Shaler is Ada and Harriet’s new guardian, Mr. Merrily Watson #9. Plans to renovate the announcing her candidacy for president Wolfson is a strangely magnetic man Master House are frustrated when the at a high-profile convergence of media confined to a wheelchair and flanked by a builder refuses to work there. Directed to heavy-hitters. Also in attendance is an pair of fierce dogs. Even more unsettling investigate, Merrily Watkins discovers assassin with a brilliant and foolproof are Wolfson’s two sons. One of them is ancient connections between the house plan. Due Jul (American) warm and good-natured, the other is and the nearby church built by the Terri PERSONS pure malevolence. But young Harriet is Knights Templar. Merrily’s ready to quit Blind Rage 320pp Tp $32.95 about to discover a frightening truth: that when a sudden death changes Bernadette Saint evil runs rampant throughout their new everything, and she returns to uncover Clare #2. A string of home and the surrounding moors, fibres of fear and hatred stitched into young women especially when the moon comes out. Due history and now insidiously twisted into committing suicide Jul (American) the corridors and cloisters of power. Due haunts the Twin Suzanne PRICE Jul (English) Cities, but FBI Agent Dirty Deeds 272pp Pb $13.95 David ROBBINS Bernadette Saint Grime Solvers Mystery #2. Cleaning The Assassins Gallery Clare thinks they wiz Sky Taylor is on her way to a stable, 432pp Pb $20.00 didn’t die by their self-sufficient life. All she needs now is Professor Mikhal Lammeck’s specialty is own hand. Her best the contract to clean City Hall. She the history of assassins and he’s asked to lead is a psychiatrist doesn’t need is another murder help. An assassin is in Washington DC to who treated one of the victims. When investigation she gets both. The body of kill the US commander-in-chief. As Saint Clare resorts to using her second real estate developer Kyle Fipps is found Lammeck and a killer circle the streets in sight to dig deep into the doctor’s past, and it’s likely he was murdered. But the hunt for FDR, one of them will she’ll discover dark secrets as complex as when the investigation leads straight to attempt to kill the world’s most heavily they are disturbing. Due Jul (American) City Hall, will Sky be the next one getting guarded man, the other, to save him. For Elizabeth PETERS swept under the rug? Due Jul (American) an instant, history will hang in the Night Train to Memphis (1994) Ann PURSER balance. Due Jul (American) 434pp Pb $21.95 Sorrow on Sunday David ROLLINS Vicky Bliss #5. Vicky Bliss admits she 288pp Pb $13.95 Hard Rain 432pp Tp $33.00 doesn’t know a thing about Egyptology. Lois Meade Mystery #7. A rash of strange Vin Cooper #3. When the USA But her familiarity with criminality brings occurrences has Lois unsettled. attache to Turkey is found butchered an intelligence agency to her with an Someone’s been stealing tack from the special agents Vin Cooper and Anna offer. They want her undercover on a equestrian set, and then a local is killed Masters are sent to investigate. Within luxury Nile cruise because information when a horse bolts in front of his van. days, Portman’s associates begin to die. has it that a major theft of Egyptian Lois hardly knows what to make of the There’s a serial killer at large but nothing antiquities is in the works. Vicky suspects disturbances, but it becomes clear that is making a hell of a lot of sense as Cooper her occasional lover and frequent she’d better figure it out post-haste, or she and Masters find themselves hunted, adversary, Sir John Smythe. When one of herself may take a nasty tumble. Due Jul smacked around, shot at, buried alive and the crew is murdered Vicky finds she (English) blown up from Turkey to Iraq, to Egypt to must put her emotions aside and join Cornelia READ Oak Ridge. Due Jul (Australian) forces with her duplicitous lover if she The Crazy School Marcus SAKEY wants to solve the case. Due Jul 336pp Tp $29.95 The Blade Itself 432pp Pb $19.95 (American) Madeline Dare #2. Madeline signs on as a Danny and Evan did a little bit of Into the Darkness (1990) teacher at an academy for disturbed small-time stuff knocking over liquor 384pp Pb $17.95 teenagers. She discovers that at stores. When Evan ended up in jail Danny Meg Venturi inherits her grandfather’s Santangelo Academy students and went straight. Time passed and Evan got antique jewellery business but she must teachers alike must submit to the out. Evan thinks Danny owes him and share it with a somewhat sinister young founder’s bizarre therapeutic regimen. Evan knows a secret or two that will tear man called A. L. Riley. Rumours spread Maddie feels uneasy about Dr Danny’s new life apart. Due Jul about her new partner and soon Meg is Santangelo. A chilling event confirms her (American) looking uncomfortably over her shoulder. worst fears and hints at an even darker John SANDFORD The longer she stays the clearer two secret that goes to the academy’s very Invisible Prey 400pp Pb $19.95 truths become: that all that glitters is heart. Due Jul (American) Prey #17. Two elderly women are definitely not gold, and that someone will Matthew REILLY murdered in their homes with only small stop at nothing to drive her away. Due Jul The Six Sacred Stones items stolen, clearly random break-ins. (American) 528pp Tp $33.00 But Lucas Davenport begins to wonder if Witch (1973) 320pp Pb $15.95 For Jack West Jr and his team the the items are actually For Ellen March, the secluded old challenge is to set six legendary so small or the victims house is a chance to start over, to forget diamonds known as The Pillars in place so random. A pattern her failed marriage and to get to know at six sites around the world before the emerges and it will her handsome neighbour. But after dark deadline for global destruction arrives. lead Davenport to strange visions invade her mind: silent The locations of these sites, however, can somewhere strangers moving through the shadows, a only be revealed by the fabled Six Sacred unexpected. Which is ghostly figure and a spectral white cat. Stones. Due Jul (Australian) too bad, because the Ellen was hoping to bury the past, but killers are expecting something terrifying has taken its place. him. Due Jul Due Jul (American) (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 9 Alex SCARROW Mehmet Murat SOMER Dan WADDELL Last Light 496pp Pb $20.00 The Prophet Murders The Blood Detective In the space of a 224pp Pb $23.95 304pp Pb $32.95 few days, the world’s Hop Ciki Yaya Thriller The body of a young man is discovered in oil supplies are #1. In Istanbul a churchyard and the killer has left severed and things transvestites are being Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster a begin to unravel. murdered. Our cryptic clue. The clue is handed to Nigel Jenny is fighting to get protagonist, fellow Barnes, a specialist in compiling family back to London and transvestite and club trees, and the message becomes clear. It her children, which in owner dons her leads Barnes back to the victim of a the space of a week is lipstick and ups the Victorian serial killer. Then a second body transformed into a ante in the search for is discovered. The clues appear to run lawless vision of Hell. the religious nut. She’s along the tangled bloodlines that lie Jenny’s estranged husband, Andy is the perfect investigator: she knows between 1879 and now. If Barnes is right stranded in Iraq, and against all this, a everyone on the scene and she’s very about his blood-history, the killing spree mysterious man is tracking Andy’s persistent. Our girl struggles against the has only just begun. Due Jul (English) family. He’ll silence anyone who might be odds in her pursuit - everyone knows that Shirley WELLS able to reveal the identities of those running in stilettos and a black leather cat A Darker Side 256pp Hb $59.95 behind the disaster. These people are suit is hell! Can she end the slaughter Jill Kennedy #2. prepared to do anything to keep their without breaking a nail? Due Jul (Turkey) Forensic psychologist secret safe. Due Jul (English) Gertrude STEIN Jill Kennedy is Michele SCOTT Blood on the Dining Room Floor enjoying the quiet life A Vintage Murder (1948) 128pp Pb $11.95 in Lancashire. Then 256pp Pb $13.95 Shortly after the publication of her Martin Hayden, a 17- Wine Lovers Mystery #4. Nikki and her bestseller, The Autobiography of Alice B year-old boy, is boss-turned-boyfriend came to Australia Toklas Stein found herself stymied by murdered, so DCI to visit the Hahndorf Winery, but it seems writer’s block. A series of local crimes Max Trentham, Jill’s they’ve also walked onto a movie set. inspired this detective novel. Due Jul ex-colleague and ex- And when lead actress is found dead in (American) lover, wants her back her trailer, bitten by a poisonous snake, Peter STEINER at work. It seems Martin wasn’t above a Nikki must comb the vineyards of the Le Crime: A Mystery spot of blackmail and his father isn’t the valley to catch a killer with a venomous 256pp Pb $25.95 distraught parent one would expect. streak before she’s struck herself. Due Jul Louis Morgon #1. When Louis Morgan When the killer strikes again, Jill and Max (American) finds a dead body on the doorstep of his find themselves in a desperate race Daniel SILVA house, he teams up with the local against time. Due Jul (English) The Secret Servant gendarme to solve a murder. Charming Kate WILHELM 464pp Pb $19.95 and delectable eccentricities a la Francais A Wrongful Death Gabriel Allon #7. In Amsterdam, terrorism abound. Previously published as A 352pp Pb $13.95 analyst Ephraim Rosner lies dead having French Country Murder. Due Jul Barbara Holloway Legal Thriller. Barbara’s requested a meeting with Israeli (American) peaceful retreat on the coast is shattered intelligence 24 hours before. Gabriel Tetsuo TAKASHIMA when a terrified young boy leads her to a Allon discovers Rosner knew a major Fallout 288pp Tp $29.95 cabin in the woods where his mother lies terrorist operation was in the works. In A diagram for a senseless. Barbara runs for help, but by London, the goddaughter of the US nuclear bomb is the time she returns with help both President vanishes. With time running anonymously sent to mother and son are gone. Barbara delves out, Allon has no choice but to plunge an editor at the Daily into the mystery of the missing child, only into a desperate search, both for the Californian. Presidential to realise that the kidnapping is a ruse for woman and for those responsible. The advisor Frank Curly is a more sinister plan. Obstacles thwart her truth, when he finds it, is not what he found dead from an every move yet none of these things expects. Due Jul (American) apparent self-inflicted compares to the shocking murder scene Chris SIMMS gunshot wound in a that awaits her. Due Jul (American) Hell’s Fire 304pp Tp $33.00 Washington DC park. R D WINGFIELD DI Jon Spicer In his hotel room is a dead 15-year-old A Killing Frost #4. When a corpse and girl. Two men investigating seemingly 400pp Tp $34.95 satanic symbols are disparate mysteries on opposite coasts Jack Frost #6. Detective Inspector Jack found in the smoking unknowingly share a common bond, the Frost is called to the discovery in the ruins of a church, DI clues to a conspiracy that could reshape woods of a human foot. It’s when two Jon Spicer is called in. the structure of a nation and create a young girls go missing that the crime Fresh killings bring terrifying new world. Due Jul (Japanese) wave reaches terrifying heights. Detective the realisation that Bill VIDAL Chief Inspector Skinner arrives at the those responsible are The Clayton Account station and has his eye on the prepared to commit 352pp Tp $32.95 Superintendent’s office, but his first job is unspeakable acts in Thomas Clayton’s father leaves in his will to transfer Frost. Will Frost find the homage to their God. As the case the contents of a numbered Swiss bank missing girls before his nemesis forces threatens to engulf Manchester, can account containing $50 million. It turns him away once and for all? Due Jul Spicer and those he loves escape out that Tom’s father was laundering (English) unharmed? Due Jul (English) money for the biggest cocaine baron in Medellin. Due Jul (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 10 Don WINSLOW Jason GOODWIN Michael JECKS The Dawn Patrol The Snake Stone 320pp Pb $22.95 The Templar the Queen and her Lover 320pp Tp $32.95 Yashim the Eunuch #2. Istanbul, 1838, and 512pp Pb $20.00 On Pacific Beach, a French archaeologist has arrived Medieval West Country Mystery #24. California Boone determined to uncover a lost Byzantine Isabella, Queen of England, has been Daniels, a laid-back treasure. Yashim is hired to investigate dispatched to France to bring about peace private investigator him, but when the man turns up dead, between the two countries, and Baldwin straddles his long Yashim is the only suspect. Once again, must accompany her. But the day after board. With him are the investigator finds himself in a race their arrival, a servant is found murdered his Dawn Patrol against time to uncover the truth behind a with Baldwin’s dagger lying next to the buddies. A huge secret society dedicated to the revival of body. As Baldwin struggles to prove his storm is coming, the Byzantine Empire. Due Jul (English) innocence, the killer strikes again. With so bringing with it once Ann GRANGER many English enemies gathering in Paris, in a lifetime waves. A Mortal Curiosity 288pp Tp $33.00 will Baldwin be able to expose the culprit When Boone takes a case with the help of Lizzie Martin #2. Lizzie Martin, lady’s in time to protect the English King? Due lawyer Petra Hall, he’s determined to companion, has been sent to the New Jul (English) wrap it up in time for the epic surf. But all Forest to comfort a young woman whose The Prophecy of Death sorts of trouble follows as the case turns baby has tragically died. When a rat- 384pp Hb $60.00 personal, raising ghosts from Boone’s catcher is found murdered in the garden Medieval West Country past and dragging in the Dawn Patrol. and the young woman is discovered Mystery #25. King Boone has to fight just to keep his head beside the body, crying and covered in Edward II has rejected above water. Due Jul (American) blood Lizzie calls upon her friend his wife, Isabella yet Inspector Ben Ross from Scotland Yard to even now she is in HISTORICAL solve the horrific crime. Due Jul (English) France to negotiate Cora HARRISON peace with her brother, CRIME My Lady Judge 311pp Pb $23.00 King Charles IV. Burren #1. On the first eve of May 1509, Meanwhile, Sir J M C BLAIR hundreds of people from the Burren Baldwin de Furnshill Excalibur Murders 320pp Pb $13.95 climbed the limestone terraces to and his friend Simon Puttock return from A Merlin Investigation. Merlin is no celebrate, returning at dawn to their France with an urgent instruction for the magician, merely a scholar and advisor to homes. But one man did not come back King, but soon find themselves at the King Arthur. But after the supposedly down. His body lay exposed on the centre of a deadly court intrigue with magical Stone of Bran is stolen along with mountain for two nights, and no one men who will stop at nothing to achieve the legendary sword Excalibur, and one spoke of him, or told what they had seen. their ambitions. Due Jul (English) of Arthur’s squires is murdered, Merlin When Mara, a woman appointed to be John R KING must use the power of reason to catch a judge and lawgiver came to investigate, The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls murderer. Due Jul (American) she was met with a wall of silence. Due Jul 352pp Hb $49.95 Armand CABBASSON (Irish) In 1891 Dr Watson Wolf Hunt 350pp Pb $19.95 Michaelmas Tribute 300pp Tp $33.00 witnessed Sherlock Quentin Margont Burren #2. The Michaelmas Fair is a time Holmes fall to his death Investigation #2. In for the people of the Burren to gather after a struggle with his 1809, Napoleons together and give tribute to the lord of archenemy Professor Grande Army is in their clans. The new lord of the Moriarty above the falls. Austria. For young MacNamara clan has raised the tribute What really happened Lieutenant Lukas and his greedy steward is not a popular that infamous day at Relmyer, it is hard to man. When his body is found in the Reichenbach Falls and return to the place churchyard, Mara is called to investigate. why did Holmes where he and fellow Was it revenge, greed or something more disappear in the aftermath? And what of orphan Franz, were sinister? Due Jul (Irish) Moriarty? The events were not just kidnapped four years Sheri HOLMAN witnessed by Watson but by another previously. Franz was murdered and A Stolen Tongue 352pp Tp $29.95 detective, Carnacki. Carnacki rescues an Lukas has vowed revenge. When the In 1483 Father Felix Fabri sets sail from amnesiac gentleman from the base of the body of another orphan is found on the Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage falls only to find himself and his battlefield, Captain Quentin Margont and to venerate Saint Katherine. Joined by a companion doggedly pursued by an evil Lukas join forces to track down the wolf young woman who claims that Saint mastermind. Due Jul (American) that is prowling once more in the forests Katherine speaks through her, and her I J PARKER of Aspern. Due Jul (French) brother whose intentions are never clear, The Hell Screen (2003) D S DAVIES (ED) Felix soon finds his expectations crushed. 432pp Tp $27.95 The Games Afoot 416pp Pb $9.95 Felix’s group comes ashore to pay homage Sugawara Akitada Mystery #5. Sleuth Sherlock Holmes Adventures #7. Once but each time they come to worship, they Sugawara Akitada is on his way to his more, the game’s afoot as Sherlock find that the remains of dying mother when he takes refuge in a Holmes returns in 20 new adventures Katherine’s body are temple containing a brilliantly painted specially commissioned for Wordsworth’s being stolen in bits and hell screen. That night he is awakened by Mystery & Supernatural series. The pieces. Felix is thrust into a scream. It’s only after Akitada returns to celebrated detective and Dr Watson a deep and strange a scene of domestic unhappiness and investigate a variety of mysteries that will mystery that takes him scandal that the significance of that cry delight fans. Due Jul (English) across the desert and becomes clear. For while he slept, a plumbs the depths of his woman was murdered, and now he must soul. Due Jul (American) find her killer. Due Jul (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 11 Jean-Francois PAROT The Man with the Lead Stomach CRIME CRIME 320pp Pb $29.95 Nicolas le Floch #2. The AUDIO NON-FICTION newly promoted Stanley ALPERT Commissioner Le Margery ALLINGHAM Kidnapped: A Story of Survival Floch is on duty at a The Mystery Mile (1930) 3 CDs $45.00 368pp Pb $21.95 Royal performance of Albert Champion. Read by Philip Franks. Federal Prosecutor Rameau’s latest work. Judge Crowdy Lobbett has evidence Stanley Alpert was When the body of a pointing to the identity of the mastermind kidnapped by a car-full prominent courtiers behind the Simister gang and he seeks the of thugs. His captors son is found Nicolas help of amateur sleuth, Albert Campion. held guns to his head, begins his second After Campion bundles Lobbett off to a threatened his family, major investigation. The initial evidence country house in Mystery Mile, all engaged him in points to suicide, but Le Floch s instincts manner of adventures ensue. Due Jul discussions of gangster tell him he is dealing with murder of the (English) philosophy and sought most gruesome kind. Due Jul (French) Patricia CORNWELL legal advice before Steven SAYLOR The Front 4 CDs $45.00 releasing him. Told from Alpert’s The Triumph of Caesar At Risk #2. Read by Kate Reading. memories and interviews with NYPD 320pp Hb $44.95 Massachusetts State Investigator Win detectives and FBI agents, this bizarre Roma Sub Rosa #11. The civil war is over Garano is asked to investigate the death story reads like a thriller, but every word and Julius Caesar has returned to Rome of a young British woman murdered is true. Due Jul (American) but rumour has it that not all of his more than 40 ago, assumed to be a victim Kathryn CASEY opposition was crushed. Caesar’s wife of the Boston Strangler. This case will take A Descent Into Hell: The True Story of Calpurnia fears for his life, and hires Garano through the archives and into an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader and a someone to investigate, whom is then partnership with London’s New Scotland Twisted Texas Murder found murdered. Calpurnia asks Yard. Due Jul (American) 384pp Pb $15.95 Gordianus, who is no fan of Caesar’s to Janet EVANOVICH Casey delivers the gripping true story of protect him. Gordianus agrees to help, Lean Mean Thirteen 3 CDs $33.00 one of the most brutal slayings in the but only to find the murderer who killed Stephanie Plum #13. Read by Loreli King. history of Texas, the 2005 murder of his friend. But once an investigation has The 13th in Janet Evanovich’s bestselling University of Texas student Jennifer Cave begun, there’s no controlling what it will series featuring her lovable and hapless and the manhunt for her cold-blooded turn up or where it will end. Due Jul heroine, Stephanie Plum. Due Jul killer. Due Jul (American) (American) (American) John EDDLESTON Will THOMAS Stieg LARSSON A Century of Welsh Murders and The Black Hand 304pp Tp $27.95 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Executions 192pp Pb $39.95 Barker & Llewelyn 6 CDs $32.95 This fascinating book covers every 20th Mystery #5. When an 40 years ago, Harriet century murder committed in Wales that assassin’s body is Vanger disappeared resulted in a judicial execution. found floating in off the secluded Eddleston’s carefully researched and London’s East End, island owned by her enthralling text will appeal to anyone Cyrus Barker and his family. Disgraced interested in the shady side of Welsh assistant Thomas journalist Mikael history. Due Jul (Welsh) Llewelyn are called in Blomqvist and Ian FERGUSON to investigate. Soon computer hacker Murders That Shocked Australia corpses begin to Lisbeth Salander are 384pp Pb $24.95 appear all over hired to investigate. This second edition takes the reader London, each accompanied by a Mafia The pair delves into through Australia’s most challenging Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn the sinister past of this tightly knit family, murders and explores the true-life cases dig deeper, they become entangled in the but the Vangers are a secretive lot, and that have gripped Australia and our vendettas of rival Italian syndicates and it Mikael and Lisbeth are about to find out media. It takes us on a trip through the is no longer clear who is a friend or foe. just how far they’re prepared to go to human psyche, as well as exploring the Due Jul (American) protect themselves and each other. Due darker side of what it means to be Victoria THOMPSON Jul (Swedish) Australian. Due Jul (Australian) Murder in Chinatown Donna LEON 320pp Pb $15.95 Doctored Evidence (2004) CD $44.95 Gaslight Mystery #9. Midwife Sarah Guido Brunetti #13. Read by Andrew Brandt is in Chinatown to deliver a baby. Sachs. When a wealthy Venetian woman There she meets a group of Irish women is found murdered her maid is suspected who, completely alone at Ellis Island, until she herself killed. Case closed. married Chinese men in the same Commissario Brunetti decides she could predicament. But children of mixed races not have been the killer and takes on the are scorned. When the new mother’s half- case. As Brunetti investigates, it becomes Chinese, half-Irish niece goes missing, clear that the motive for the murder had Sarah seeks the help of Detective Sergeant its roots in the temptations of lust not Malloy. When the missing girl is found greed. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of dead Sarah and Malloy have ample the wrong deadly sin... Due Jul suspects from both sides of Canal Street. (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 Eric FRANCIS Taken from Home: A Family, a Dark Secret and a Brutal Murder 288pp Pb $13.95 When Michael Blagg’s wife Jennifer and daughter Abby disappeared, Michael led the charge to find them. Seven months later, Jennifer’s remains were found. While Michael played the part of grieving survivor, authorities became increasingly suspicious. Was Blagg a cold-blooded killer? This is the true story of what happened when Jennifer and Abby Blagg were taken from home. Due Jul (American) Henry HOLDEN FBI 100 Years: The Unofficial History 192pp Hb $60.00 This book offers the first comprehensive account of the bureau’s history. Granted unprecedented access to both FBI Headquarters, the Quantico academy and historical records, Holden presents a rare inside view of the agency’s workings, as well as a compelling, closely observed picture of its ever-changing role. Chronicling the bureau’s successes and failures, this book is the most authoritative and thorough ever written about the FBI. Due Jul (American) Chloe HOOPER Tall Man 288pp Pb $32.95 In 2004, Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old resident of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Within 45 minutes, he was dead. The main suspect was well-respected Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley. This is the story of what happened, the trial and the Aboriginal myths around the case. Due Jul (Australian) John Suter LINTON Murder at Anna Bay: The Story of the Investigation into the Murder of Judith Brown 272pp Pb $24.95 In June 2000, Judith Brown was murdered in her Anna Bay home. With no eyewitnesses, the investigation team was reduced to Detective Sergeant Peter Fox and Crime Scene Examiner, Detective Senior Constable Peter Muscio. Three years later, the murder was solved, not by a confession or showing motive, but by passionate police work in presenting one of the most complicated circumstantial cases to be placed before a NSW Supreme Court. Due Jul (Australian) M William PHELPS I’ll Be Watching You 320pp Pb $13.95 Investigative journalist Phelps takes readers deep into the mind of Edwin (Ned) Snelgrove, a twisted, sexually sadistic killer who, whilst incarcerated for the attempted murder of a woman, bragged to a friend that he could outdo Ted Bundy if given the chance. He was released after only 11 years and went on to follow Bundy’s MO, but was ultimately caught and sentenced to life in prison. Due Jul (American) Larry WRITER Australian Book of True Crime 336pp Tp $29.95 21 of Australia’s most startling real-life crimes collected in one gripping volume. Using research, court records, police statements and original interviews, Writer offers fascinating new insight into the lives of some of our most notorious villains and their victims. Due Jul (Australian)

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