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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. to the limit! (English) Due May Southern pride standing in the way of justice, she knows it’s time to unravel the mystery. Joan BRADY (American) Due May Eve Abbey Venom 480pp Tp $32.99 Recently released from prison, David F J CHASE Marion averts death from a hit-man and – Bargain with the Devil forewarned that a secret organisation is after 320pp Pb $14.95 him – goes into hiding. Meanwhile, physicist Peter Avakian #2. Security consultant and Helen Freyl accepts a job offer from a giant Special Forces-trained Peter Avakian becomes pharmaceutical company that seeks a cure snarled in a complex plot to stage a political for radiation poisoning. But she soon doubts coup in central Africa. He turns to the CIA for her employers’ motives, after the mysterious help – and is forced to become their mole and sudden death of a colleague is followed inside the conspiracy. It’s all Avakian can by another. David and Helen are brought do to stay alive, in a world where nations together as they fight for their lives against a battle over oil supplies, drug dealers finance backdrop of industrial espionage, corporate revolutions, and gunrunners sell themselves greed and human tragedy. (English) Due May to the highest bidder. (American) Due May

Alafair BURKE Barbara CLEVERLY Peter Milne, our esteemed crime bookseller (right), City of Lies 448pp Tp $32.99 Strange Images of Death with bestselling crime author Lee Child during his When New York University student Megan 320pp Hb $46.95 recent tour of Australia. Gunther is murdered after receiving threats Joe Sandilands #8. Provence, 1926. Scotland on a campus website, NYPD Detective Ellie Yard detective Joe Sandilands is on leave, Hatcher suspects the girl’s murder was more driving south to the Riviera while dropping Peter’s top 10 than just cyber obsession. Then phone off his niece at an ancient chateau in After much deliberation, Peter chose the records reveal a link between Megan and a the Luberon hills. But a crime has been following (alphabetical by author): murdered real-estate agent who was leading committed at the chateau, and Joe stays a double life – and even more suspiciously, on to root out the murderer. Despite Joe’s The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin #1) who was connected to a celebrity mogul vigilance, a child goes missing and an artist’s by Boris Akunin (Pb $22.99) whose bodyguard was killed a few months beautiful young model is murdered in Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery #1) earlier. Then Megan’s roommate disappears, circumstances eerily recreating a 600-year- by Kerry Greenwood (Pb $22.95) and she must be found before it’s too late… old crime of passion. To solve the murder, Joe Death at la Fenice (Guido Brunetti #1) (American) Due May must delve into a horror story from the past. by Donna Leon (Pb $24.95) (English) Due May Tom CAIN Belshazzar’s Daughter (Inspector Ikmen #1) by Barbara Nadel (Pb $19.99) Assassin 528pp Pb $21.95 Michael CONNELLY Samuel Carver #3. When a people-trafficker The Scarecrow 428pp Pb $22.99 The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and a money-launderer are violently killed, Forced out of the Los (Precious Ramotswe #1) by Alexander McCall Smith (Pb $22.99) both incidents bear Angeles Times amid the hallmarks of Sam the latest budget The Broken Shore by Peter Temple (Pb $23.95) Carver. But someone cuts, newspaperman A Presumption of Death is setting Carver up. Jack McEvoy decides (Return of Lord Peter Wimsey #2) And now his old to use his final days by Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy Sayers paymasters at MI6 at the paper to write (Pb $19.99) want him stopped. A the definitive murder The Ice House by Minette Walters (Pb $19.95) copycat killer wants story of his career. He Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) to beat Carver at his focuses on Alonzo by Jacqueline Winspear (Pb $22.99) own game, by hitting Winslow, a 16-year-old The Taint of Midas (Hermes Diaktoros #2) the world’s most drug dealer in jail after by Anne Zouroudi (Pb $23.99) prominent target: confessing to murder. Jack soon realises that the President of the Winslow’s so-called confession is bogus. Jack Of course Peter also added that he was forced United States. Alone is soon running with his biggest story yet, to leave out many other favourites, including and on the run, Carver will have to use all his and now he must track a killer who operates Stieg Larsson, Robert B Parker, Kathy Reichs.... cunning and tradecraft to stop his deadly completely below police radar. (American) the list goes on! opponent. (English) Due May Due May tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 3 CRIME CHRONICLE David CRISTOFANO Diane Mott DAVIDSON Patricia DUNCKER The Girl She Used to Be Fatally Flaky 432pp Pb $14.95 The Strange Case of the Composer 288pp Pb $22.99 Goldy Schulz #5. When and His Judge 272pp Tp $29.99 When Melody was six, she and her parents local physician Doc New Year’s Day, witnessed an act of violence so brutal that Finn dies in a tragic 2000. Hunters the federal government lured them into the car accident, Goldy on their way Witness Protection Program. 20 years later Schulz and her father home through a and still on the run, she’s stunned when Jack suspect that forest in the Jura a Mafioso man named Jonathan Bovaro Doc was murdered stumble upon a accosts her and calls her by her real name. because of the half-circle of dead Feeling safer in the hands of the mob than research he was bodies lying in the Justice Department, can Melody trust her doing at the local the snow… and life and identity to this stranger whose acts of spa – allegations a leather-bound violence are legendary? (American) Due May that are confirmed book, written in when Jack himself Neil CROSS code, containing is attacked. Goldy must don chef’s whites maps of the Captured 256pp Tp $32.99 to go undercover at the spa, and find the stars. The Judge, With only weeks to clever killer who’s watching her every move. Dominique Carpentier, leads the investigation live, Kenny wants to (American) and has encountered this suicide sect before. find his childhood The pursuit begins. But has Carpentier met friend Callie Barton P T DEUTERMANN her match in the Composer? (Jamaican) and say goodbye. Nightwalkers 336pp Pb $14.95 Due May But when Kenny Following an begins his search, he eventful detective Barry EISLER realises that Callie career, Cam Fault Line 352pp Pb $14.95 has gone missing. searches for Alex Treven has sacrificed a lot to become a Although cleared of peaceful pastures in partner in his high-tech law firm. So when any involvement, her the North Carolina the inventor of a technology that Alex is husband Jonathan countryside – banking on is murdered – and when Alex seems to be hiding only to uncover himself barely escapes an attack in his own something. Kenny has no choice but to mischievous pranks home – he turns to his estranged brother take matters into his own hands. And he’s upon his 700 acre Ben, an undercover soldier paid to eliminate prepared to do whatever it takes... (English) land – once the site targets in the US ‘war on terror’. To survive the Due May of a Civil War-era forces arrayed against them, they will need to massacre. When the Lila DARE survive one another… (American) Due May pranks turn hostile, Tressed to Kill 304pp Pb $14.95 Conor FITZGERALD Cam realises he’s being targeted by a killer Southern The Dogs of Rome who holds him responsible for a crime he did Beauty Shop Mystery not commit. Now Cam must draw upon all 400pp Tp $29.99 #1. St Elizabeth, of his resources to stay alive as he becomes When an animal rights activist is brutally Georgia, offers entangled in a place suddenly alive with its killed, the victim’s widow is an elected charm, Southern bloody past… (American) Due May member of the Senate, and the case is given hospitality and special priority. Chief Inspector Blume, well – most recently Gary DISHER acquainted with the Rome’s underworld, – murder. When The Wyatt Butterfly: knows from experience that even a murder hairdresser Grace Port Vila Blues (1995) / enquiry must bow to the rules of political Terhune and her The Fallout (1997) expediency. But when he uncovers disturbing mother, Violetta, 480pp Tp $32.95 procedural shortcuts sanctioned by his gussy up all the Port Vila Blues: Wyatt snatches the cash easily superior, Blume takes matters into his own high-society ladies enough. He bypasses the alarm system, hands, risking life to see justice done. attending the town eludes the cops, but can he make it safely (English) Due May meeting, they find their snobbiest client back to his bolthole in Hobart? Helen FITZGERALD dead. The police believe the mother-daughter The Fallout: Wyatt is stranded on a boat with The Devil’s Staircase duo did her in. But before things get snarled policewoman Liz Redding and a fortune in beyond repair, Grace sets out to clear their 224pp Pb $19.95 stolen gems. After his escape, he triggers a names. (American) Due May Bronny – a young manhunt… but who exactly is hunting him? Australian – finds Elizabeth DARRELL (Australian) Due May herself down and French Leave 224pp Pb $27.95 Vicki DOUDERA out in London. She’s Max Rydal Military Mystery. During an intense A House to Die For a sheltered girl, heatwave, the West Wiltshire Regiment 336pp Pb $27.00 who has spent her engages in a military exercise – but at its teenage years in a Darby Farr Mystery #1. Realtor Darby Farr conclusion, Private John Smith goes missing. fearful bubble. She’s escaped her stifling hometown to build a new Smith’s sergeant is adamant he’s gone AWOL, never taken drugs, life, but a phone-call sends her back to the but then the Special Investigation Branch had sex or killed small Maine island to close a multimillion- receive a chilling anonymous phone call. anyone. Within six dollar sale. It all seems like a simple deal until Military detectives Max Rydal and Tom Black weeks she’s done a local scuttles the sale and one buyer is are called in to investigate – and then Dan all three. A group found hacked to death. Facing a huge storm, Farley, the new Platoon Commander, also of backpackers break into an abandoned a desperate buyer and a dangerous former disappears… (English) Due May London townhouse seeking a rent-free life Navy SEAL, Darby must piece together the of debauchery. They don’t realise someone’s puzzle and stay alive. (American) already there: a terrified woman bound and gagged in the basement… (Australian) www.abbeys.com.au 4 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Brian FREEMAN Carol GOODMAN Reginald HILL The Burying Place Arcadia Falls 400pp Tp $32.99 Midnight Fugue 400pp Pb $24.99 416pp Pb $19.99 For 200 years, painters, poets and musicians Dalziel & Pascoe Jonathan Stride #5. In a quiet town in have come to the mountain village of Arcadia #22. Gina Wolfe is Minnesota, a baby vanishes from her Falls to pursue their artistic visions. When searching for her bedroom. It looks like abduction, but Meg Rosenthal gets an offer to teach at missing husband, Lieutenant Jonathan Stride suspects that Arcadia College, it seems a godsend, and she and thinks the baby’s father has a great deal to hide. hopes Arcadia Falls will be a place where she Superintendent That same night, a young policewoman and her daughter can find peace. But the Dalziel can help. stumbles into the middle of a horrific crime college conceals deceit, betrayal, and murder. What neither – an encounter that will draw a sadistic killer And Meg begins to fear that Arcadia Falls realise is that right into her midst. Meanwhile, deep in the has put herself and her daughter in danger. others are on woods, a shallow grave conceals a secret that (American) Due May the same trail: a Stride and his team must unearth before time Mitchell GRAHAM tabloid hack; an MP’s secretary; runs out… (American) Due May Dead Docket 432pp Pb $14.95 a ruthless Barbara FREETHY Adams & Delaney #2. Katherine Adams and entrepreneur; John Delaney have settled into a long- In Shelter Cove 384pp Pb $14.95 and two henchmen. Four stories, two distance relationship. He’s a streetwise The theft of three priceless paintings sent mismatched detectives, and 24 hours in ex-NYPD detective turned lawyer, and she’s a Derek Kane to prison and destroyed the which to figure it out! (English) Due May dreams of his wife, Brianna. When Derek hotshot Atlanta lawyer. When a policeman’s dies just weeks before his release, Brianna daughter is killed in a horrific accident in Matt HILTON returns to Angel’s Bay, determined to prove Atlanta, John goes to settle her affairs and Slash and Burn 368pp Pb $24.99 her husband’s innocence and find the missing get some much-needed time with Katherine. Joe Hunter #3. When Kate Piers asks Joe paintings. Her efforts are stymied by Jason But the dead woman’s past is disturbing, and Hunter to help find her missing sister, Joe is Marlow, the police officer who sent Derek to her death was far from accidental. (American) obliged to assist when he realises that she jail. When unexpected passion flares between Due May is his former comrade-in-arms’ sister. During Brianna and Jason, she must choose between Elly GRIFFITHS their search, Joe and Kate are attacked by thugs, acting on behalf of local businessman truth and lies… (American) Due May The Janus Stone 320pp Tp $32.95 Robert Huffman – who is linked to organised Elizabeth GEORGE Forensic archaeologist crime and a deadly reputation with a blade. Ruth Galloway is called This Body of Death Huffman is also looking for Kate’s sister, and in to investigate the 608pp Tp $32.99 kidnaps Kate to act as bait. Looks like Joe is in discovery of a child’s #16. DI Thomas trouble again… (English) Lynley is on leave skeleton – minus after his wife’s the skull – during a Reece HIRSCH murder, and Isabelle building demolition. The Insider 336pp Pb $14.95 Ardery is brought Was it a ritual sacrifice? The colleague of into the Met as When it turns out the corporate attorney his temporary building was once a Will Connelly hurtles replacement. When children’s home and to his death outside the discovery that two children went his office window, of a dead body missing 40 years earlier, and within days, Will offers Isabelle the Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the is a prime suspect in a chance to make her case… But someone is trying very hard to put murder, the target of mark, persuading her off the scent. (English) an SEC insider trading Lynley back to work seems the best way to Andrew GROSS investigation, and a pawn in a complex guarantee a result; Lynley’s team is loyal to Reckless 416pp Tp $32.99 criminal scheme him and she will need them on side. However, Ty Hauck has left law enforcement, to work involving the Russian operating under the scrutiny of the media, for a private security firm. When a successful mafia. And, to top things off, he must ensure Isabelle is quick to pin the murder on a trader at one of Wall Street’s largest firms is a deadly enemy doesn’t gain access to the convenient suspect… (American) Due May murdered with his family, it seems a case of nation’s most sensitive and confidential burglary gone wrong. Then another financial Mark GIMENEZ information… (American) Due May Accused 448pp Tp $32.99 executive is found dead in a suspicious Texan lawyer Scott suicide. As Hauck digs deeper, he uncovers Declan HUGHES Fenney receives a financial conspiracy that stretches from City of Lost Girls 320pp Tp $32.99 a phone call from New York to Central Europe to London. And Ed Loy #5. There’s a killer on the loose in his ex-wife, who the masterminds behind it are ruthless… LA, killing young girls and always in threes. stands accused (American) Due May Meanwhile, Ed Loy is reunited with Jack of murdering her Danielle HERMANS Donovan, an LA film director. When the third young female extra fails to show for work boyfriend and The Tulip Virus 288pp Tp $32.99 on Jack’s movie, Loy grows suspicious. And implores Scott Holland, 1636: The body of Wouter Winckel when the previous victims of the ‘Three-in- to defend her. If – a well respected tulip-trader and collector One Killer’ are discovered at locations that Rebecca is found in the United Republic of the Low Countries Jack used for his movies, Loy liaises with the guilty, she will be – is found slaughtered in an inn. London, LAPD on their investigation. He must find sentenced to death 2007: Dutchman Frank Schoeller is found in something in his and Jack’s shared past that under Texan law. his home by his nephew Alec. Just before he can point to the killer – and away from Jack. Scott must question everything he believes dies, he points Alec to a rare 17th century book (Irish) Due May to find the truth and save the life of the ex- about tulips – a clue to his murder. With the wife he still loves… (American) Due May help of Damien Vanlint, an antiques dealer from Amsterdam, Alec sets out to solve the mystery. (Dutch) Due May tel 02 9264 3111 fax 02 9264 8933 5 CRIME CHRONICLE James HUSTON Paul JOHNSTON Michael KORYTA Marine One 528pp Pb $18.95 Maps of Hell 416pp Pb $14.95 The Silent Hour On his way to a secret meeting at Camp Matt Wells #3. Crime writer Matt Wells could 304pp Pb $23.99 David, the US President’s helicopter Marine never have conjured a plot this twisted – a Uninhabited for 12 years, the mansion One crashes into a ravine, killing all aboard. secretive militia running sick brainwashing ‘Whisper Ridge’ once housed Alexandra The US government accuses the French experiments in the Maine wilderness, with Sanabria’s unique program for paroled helicopter manufacturer of killing the himself as a subject. He knows they’ve been murderers. Parker Harrison, a former parolee President. Accusations multiply as Mike subconsciously feeding him instructions… at Whisper Ridge, has asked PI Lincoln Perry Nolan – a trial attorney and Marine Corps but for what? Taunted by maddening to find Alexandra, who disappeared with her reserve helicopter pilot – is hired to defend snatches of a life he can’t trust as his own, husband after the program failed. Reluctantly, the company against a wrongful death Matt must piece it together… (Scottish) Due Perry agrees to take on the case. But when lawsuit brought by the First Lady. (American) May the skeletal remains of Alexandra’s husband Due May Bruce Kennedy JONES & are discovered, Perry is confronted with a Elise HYATT Eric ALLISON mystery that will challenge his abilities as a detective... (American) Due May French Polished Murder Fat Blackmail 376pp Pb $19.95 304pp Pb $12.95 The anonymous anti-hero of The Last Straight Camilla LACKBERG Daring Finds Mystery Face (Pb $19.95) returns to farewell his friend, The Stonecutter 480pp Tp $32.99 #2. Divorced mum, the South London armed robber Monty. But When a little Candyce Dare is Monty has one last request. There’s money girl is found in a the owner of the owing on a job, and he needs someone he fisherman’s net in furniture refinishing trusts to make sure his soon-to-be widow the remote resort of store called Daring Noriko gets it. It looks like a simple enough Fjällbacka, the post- Finds. When she favour… except that Noriko has been mortem confirms the discovers decades- kidnapped and the only person who can help incident as murder. old letters inside an is a corrupt copper locked up in Strangeways It becomes the grim antique piano that prison. (English) Due May task of recent father she’s renovating, she Mari JUNGSTEDT and local detective becomes distracted Patrik Hedström The Killer’s Art 320pp Tp $32.95 by an investigation to discover who Chief Inspector Anders Knutas #4. Inspector that puts her at odds could be behind the Knutas is called to investigate the murder of with the letter-writer’s very powerful local methodical murder of a child that both he art dealer Egon Wallins. Recently divorced family… (American) Due May and his partner knew well. (Swedish) Due May and with a new mistress, is Egon’s death Pam JENOFF a spurned lover’s revenge? And when Deryn LAKE The Officer’s Lover a painting is stolen from his gallery in The Mills of God 416pp Pb $29.99 Stockholm, more questions are raised; are the 208pp Hb $49.95 When intelligence officer Jordan Weiss death and the theft connected? (Swedish) The sleepy, eccentric Sussex village of discovers her best friend Sarah is terminally Due May Lakehurst suddenly becomes a place of terror. ill, she transfers to the State Department’s Marshall KARP After dark, it is hardly safe to go out, to the London office to be close to her. Whilst there, Flipping Out 384pp Pb $19.99 consternation of the newly arrived Vicar, she and rakish agent Sebastian Hodges trendy young Nick Lawrence, and Inspector Mystery author Nora are assigned to investigate mafia activities, Dominic Tennant of the Sussex Police Force. Bannister buys a quickly throwing Jordan into a whirlwind A serial killer is on the loose: one who leaves run-down house in drama of lies, cover-ups and corruption. notes at the scene of his crimes, signed ‘The LA – and while her (American) Due May Acting Light of the World’… (English) Due May business partners Iris JOHANSEN turn it into a show- Joyce LAVENE & Jim LAVENE Blood Game Pb $14.95 home, Nora makes it A Timely Vision 304pp Pb $14.95 Eve Duncan Forensic the scene of a grisly Dae O’Donnell is the mayor of Duck, North Mystery #8. When a murder in her latest Carolina – and the person everyone turns senator’s daughter bestseller. But, much to when they’ve lost something, because is found dead, Eve is to the horror of Nora missing pieces seem to find their way to her, drawn into the world and her pals, a series whether she wants them to or not. When of a psychopath of real murders start Miss Mildred asks Dae to find her missing – a man whose taking place – and watch, Dae finds herself looking for more name appears on Detectives Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs have than mislaid jewellery – she must prove that Eve’s shortlist of to track down the killer before he murders the town matriarch isn’t a cold-blooded killer! killers connected Terry’s wife, Marilyn. (American) (American) Due May to her own missing Jim KELLY daughter. Then Death Watch 456pp Pb $24.95 Eve receives a Shaw & Valentine #2. 15-year-old Norma Jean terrifying trophy, Judd disappeared from her home, and exactly and the games have begun. Eve believes 18 years later, Bryan – Norma Jean’s twin – is this psychopath holds the answers to the found murdered in a hospital incinerator. questions that have tormented her for years. As DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine (American) begin their investigation into Bryan’s life, they uncover a secret world of criminal activity in Bryan’s neighbourhood and the hospital where he died. (English) Due May

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