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“Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #292 MAY 2010 AUSTRALIAN Clive Small & Tom GILLING WIN A DOUBLE PASS Blood Money 336pp Tp $35.00 TO ANIMAL KINGDOM TRUE CRIME An insight The new Australian into Australian crime film, Animal organised crime, Kingdom, is due for focusing on release on 3 June. Middle Eastern Courtesy of Madman gangs whose Cinema we have 25 John SILVESTER & Andrew RULE core business is double passes to this Underbelly: The Golden Mile drugs, the sale highly-acclaimed film. 374pp Pb $24.99 and stockpiling Simply purchase any book or DVD The events which of dangerous on this page before 27 May to go in inspired the current weapons, the draw to win a double pass. extortion and TV series! This is So get in quick! ✻ the story of Kings large-scale Cross gangland fraud; outlaw motorcycle gangs with their personalities, fortified clubhouses and amphetamine including Johnny labs; and the Calabrian Mafia, always dangerous and opportunistic… Ibrahim, the Bayeh Australian crime DVDs Brothers, Trevor Peter DOYLE from Madman on special Haken and Chook Crooks Like Us 320pp Pb $49.95 Chopper $19.95 Fowler - their rise In the 1920s, $14.95 and their demise at Sydney police Starring Eric Bana as the infamous ‘Chopper’ the hands of Sydney began quietly Reid, this film examines the pathology of a police. assembling a complex, violent – yet darkly humorous – man. Jimmy THOMSON gallery of the Snitch 276pp Pb $24.99 city’s most The Boys $19.95 $14.95 intriguing Starring David Wenham, this is a powerful and This is the true story of criminals. ‘The Inspector’ – the disturbing portrait of three brothers and the These images women in their lives. man in the thick of resurfaced the scams and rorts, in the 1980s, Noise $34.95 $14.95 the power struggles long after Brendan Cowell plays a self-centred, doubt- and the gang wars, the original ridden cop afflicted with tinnitus, who is the betting rings and paperwork had been lost and the crooks challenged by violent murders that rock his illegal gambling, and and cops had passed on. Based on years of community. the rise of the Ibrahim research, this offers a glimpse into the lives empire. He was also of these fugitive souls. The Bank $19.95 $14.95 recently the technical adviser to the current Keith MOOR David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia star in TV series Underbelly. Crims in Grass Castles a thriller about a mathematician who must 334pp Pb $24.95 struggle with ruthless corporate greed. Glen McNAMARA Featuring never- Shane Maloney (Box Set) Dirty Work 320pp Pb $29.95 before-published As a NSW Police material, this is $49.95 $34.95 detective, Glen the true story of Adaptation of the popular Murray Whelan McNamara tracked Robert Trimbole: crime novels - Stiff and The Brush Off - plus a the notorious race fixer, drug disc of extras! Warren Lanfranchi, boss, Mafia Carla Cametti PD $29.95 $19.95 who was dealing powerbroker, drugs with Neddy murder TV drama about the sassy and determined Smith, and disgraced contractor and Carla, who challenges her traditional Italian cop Roger Rogerson, arms dealer. upbringing to pursue a career as a PI. who was making In the 1970s, deals in Redfern. Trimbole and the Calabrian Mafia ruled Acolytes $29.95 $14.95 This is Inner Sydney’s Australia’s marijuana trade from their A sinister tale about three teens who try to corrupt underbelly in the heat of the 1980s – ‘castles’ in Griffith, NSW – dream homes outwit a serial killer after stumbling upon a fresh with the cash and drugs flowing freely! built with drug money. grave in the woods of their peaceful suburb. MODERN CRIME David BALDACCI William Peter BLATTY Deliver Us From Evil Dimiter 304pp Tp $32.99 Jeff ABBOTT 400pp Tp $32.99 It is the 1970s. When American agent Adrenaline 480pp Tp $32.99 In South America, a Dimiter escapes from torture in an Albanian Sam Capra #1. Sam Capra – brilliant CIA agent wealthy 96-year-old prison to complete a mysterious mission, – loses everything that matters to him in a man dies, leaving a the scene shifts to Hadassah Hospital in horrifying moment in London. An unknown trail of secrets behind Jerusalem. There we meet the Christian- enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that him. Six months later Arab police detective Peter Meral, the enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping in Provence, Shaw troubled but humorous neurologist Dr from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt witnesses a murder Mayo, the attractive and sharp-tongued for the killer who kidnapped wife and child. and barely escapes the nurse Samia, and an assortment of American But the destruction of Sam’s life is only the incident himself. Then and Israeli functionaries and hospital staff first step in an extraordinary plot. (American) he realises that there – all who become enmeshed in a series of Due May is another rival secret unexplainable deaths. (American) Jane ADAMS organisation at work. Andrew BLOSSOM (Ed) Resolutions 224pp Hb $49.95 Meanwhile, half a world away, journalist Katie Richmond Noir 290pp Pb $29.99 James is working on a new story. But shortly Rina Martin #4. Akashic Noir. The after meeting with a potential inside source, When DI ‘Mac’ River City emerges she’s unconscious and on a plane to an McGregor came to as a hot spot for unknown destination… (American) Due May Frantham, he was a unseemly noir. This broken man – guilt- Robert BARNARD volume includes ridden at the death The Graveyard Position brand-new stories of a child he had 288pp Pb $19.99 by Dean King, Laura tried to save from a After a 20-year absence, Merlyn Cantelo Browder, Howard killer had escaped. returns to Leeds to attend his late Aunt Owen, Yazmina But he found Clarissa’s funeral. He is unwelcome, especially Beverly, Tom De friendship there, in since his reappearance has thwarted the Haven, X C Atkins, the shape of Rina prospect of a tidy inheritance. To complicate Meagan Saunders, Martin’s strange matters, the teenage Merlyn only fled his Anne Thomas Soffee, little household, home at the insistence of his clairvoyant aunt, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay and romance with CSI Miriam Hasting. But who foresaw his life blighted by violence McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David now his past is catching up with him. There and death. To discover whether his aunt’s Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis are new leads in the child-killer case, and fears were justified, Merlyn must delve into Danvers. (American) Due May Mac rejoins the hunt – only to become the the murky history of the Cantelo family… S J BOLTON hunted… (English) Due May (English) Blood Harvest 432pp Tp $32.95 12-year-old Tom KEY to crime genres and his family have just moved to a Suspense Thriller Romantic Suspense small town, and Tom begins seeing a mysterious child Feline Detectives Police Procedural lurking around the nearby churchyard. Psychiatrist Evi Forensic FBI is trying to treat a young woman Political/Legal Cosy/Malice Domestic haunted by the disappearance of her daughter. A Military Journalists devastating fire burned down their home, but she is convinced her daughter survived. Harry is the town’s new vicar, quickly befriended Spy Private Eye by the locals. But unusual events around the church suggest he isn’t entirely welcome – and that this odd little town harbours a Banking Psychological terrifying secret. (English) Due May Stephen BOOTH The Kill Call 544pp Pb $24.99 Canine Clerical On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, the body of a well-dressed man is discovered by hounds from the local foxhunt. Called in to investigate, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Culinary/Food Medical Ben Cooper are entangled in the world of hunting, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade. As Fry tries to unravel Sport Horse Racing the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realises that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past… (English) Pb = Paperback Hb = Hardback Due May Tp = Trade Paperback (slightly larger) www.abbeys.com.au 2 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Alan BRADLEY Elizabeth Lynn CASEY The Weed that Strings the Death Threads 288pp Pb $12.95 Exit of Big Crime Boss, Hangman’s Bag 368pp Tp $32.99 Southern Sewing Circle Peter Milne When a grisly murder Mystery #2. Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is transpires during a Having turned 70 in April, our treasured basking in the warmth travelling puppeteer’s crime expert Peter Milne has reluctantly of her new circle of performance of Jack scaled back his indispensable activities here friends from South and the Beanstalk at Abbey’s to two days per week. in the village hall, it Carolina’s ‘Sweet Briar reaches back to an Ladies Society’ sewing On 2 February next year, Peter will have been earlier crime centring circle. That is until local with Abbey’s Bookshop for 40 years – and there on an ancient, rotting author Colby Calhoun have been times when Abbey’s would have gibbet that has lain reveals an unflattering fallen over if not for his invaluable efforts! like a shadow over secret about the town’s Peter is a Life Member of the Australian the village of Bishop’s historic past – and then Bookseller’s Association and will continue Lacey for years. For Flavia, undoing the disappears, leaving to attend bookseller meetings, and spread complex knot tying these strands together a bloody trail behind him. So when Tori his enormous bookselling knowledge and will test her precocious powers of deduction detects a pattern of the townsfolk’s age-old experience.