“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #268 May 2008

AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ABBEY’S TURNS 40 JENNY WHITE A Continuing Retrospective: Part 5 In August 1985, Crime Chronicle changed its format from the original double-sided foolscap sheet to a folded A4 sheet, with each issue in a different colour. The new format allowed me to put more titles in each issue. In 1985, the Edgar Allan Poe Awards went to: NOVEL Briarpatch by Ross Thomas FIRST NOVEL Strike Three, You’re Dead by R D Rosen PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Grandmaster by Warren & Molly Murphy FACT CRIME Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings by Mike Weiss CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction by Jon Breen Unfortunately none of these titles are currently in print! Titles featured in August 1985 included Isabelle Holland’s Jenny White is a writer and social anthropologist. She has published two Death at St Anselms, Nicholas scholarly books on Turkey. Her first novel, The Sultan’s Seal, was Blake’s Smiler with a Knife and published in 2006 (Pb $22.95) featuring the Turkish magistrate Kamil J J Maloney’s I Speak for the Pasha and set in 19th century Istanbul. It was shortlisted for the Ellis Dead (again, all out of print). Peters Historical Crime Award. Authors featured who are still Her second novel, The Abyssinian Proof (343pp Tp $33), again writing today included Elmore features Kamil Pasha. In 1853, Pasha is plagued by thefts from mosques Leonard, Earl Emerson, Robert and churches of antiquities that appear for sale in Europe within days. In Barnard, Amanda Cross, James addition, there has been a series of murders in which the bodies all bear Ellroy, J A Jance and Anne Perry. the same distinctive markings. Sources lead him to a community living in Other authors mentioned who an abandoned cistern called Sunken Village and to a mysterious sect still have titles in print included descended from Abyssinian slaves. Deep within the tunnels under the old Rex Stout, Margery Allingham, city, a war is being waged and the re-emergence of a forgotten reliquary Leo Bruce, Harry Kemelman and sets off a race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop Ross MacDonald. at nothing to exploit the secret contained within. A gripping tale of murder and mystery. Highly recommended. - Peter 2 Modern Crime Sam BAKER C J BOX This Year’s Model Free Fire 352pp Pb $15.95 A C BAANTJER 352pp Tp $33.00 Joe Pickett Mystery #7. In this newest Dekok and Murder on When Lou mystery, former game warden Joe Pickett Blood Mountain (2004) McCartney, fashion returns to investigate a murder in the 208pp Pb $26.95 reporter on The Post, wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Not The trail of a recent crime leads finds out that her only has the killer confessed, but he’s Inspector DeKok to estranged half-sister gotten off free. The reason is an absolutely Bloedberg (Blood Scarlett has gone shocker. Due May (American) Mountain), Belgium, missing in Japan, Fiona BRAND a neighbourhood in she’s left reeling. Blind Instinct 400pp Pb $13.95 Antwerp. It seems a Scarlett was man was fished from Within hours catapulted to fame as the Scheldt River and of finding a Nazi a child model, but 10 DeKok has been WWII codebook in years later her career has stalled. In a summoned to help her father’s attic, desperate bid for work, Scarlett decamps with the librarian Sara Fischer to Tokyo, where she survives on the dark investigation. (Dutch) becomes a target. edges of the industry. Then, suddenly, she Afraid for her life disappears. Due May (American) and chilled by Linda BARNES memories that have KEY Flashpoint 384pp Pb $13.95 nothing to do with Carlotta Carlyle Mystery. When six- her quiet, staid life, academic foot redhead ex-cop and Boston-based she calls in a debt. private investigator Carlotta Carlyle FBI agent Marc Bayard moves in the banking agrees to help an elderly recluse burglar- shadowy world that Sara has fallen into proof her apartment, the last thing she and may be the only one who can guide canine detectives expected was that the woman would turn her out. Due May (American) clerical up dead… Due May (American) Robert Gregory BROWNE Lenny BARTULIN Kiss Her Goodbye cosy/malice domestic Deadly Business 224pp Pb $27.95 352pp Pb $13.95 Jack Susko is trying for a quiet life in his Agent Jack Donovan has two ambitions: culinary/food second-hand bookshop in downtown take down cult leader Alex Gunderson Sydney. But when a wealthy businessman after years of violent mayhem, and fbi hires Jack to locate some books for him, he reconnect with his daughter Jessie, who is plunged into a world he thought he had has somehow managed to slip from his feline detectives left behind. Making a play for the life. But, none of Jack’s experience as a businessman’s beautiful daughter doesn’t stellar cop or an absent father has forensic help matters, and the bodies soon start prepared him for the unthinkable way piling up. Due May (Australian) these two parts of his life are about to horse racing mystery Colin BATEMAN collide. Due May (American) Orpheus Rising 384pp Tp $33.00 Edna BUCHANAN Journalists Michael Ryan was the author of a Love Kills 352pp Pb $15.95 runaway bestseller, Space Coast, but its Britt Montero Mystery #8. When a medical publication coincided with his wife’s bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the military murder in a bank raid. Ten years later, skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Michael returns to the scene of the crime to Case Squad is brought in to investigate. native american exorcise the ghosts of the past and try to Reporter Britt Montero was the last write his second novel. But he discovers person to see him alive, and the detectives police procedural the grim truth behind his wife’s murder have questions only she can answer. Due and encounters the strangest of small- May (American) political/legal town behaviour... Due May (American) Alex CARR C J BOX The Prince of Bagram Prison psychological Blue Heaven 352pp Tp $32.95 320pp Tp $33.00 A 12-year-old girl and her younger It’s September 11, 2004, three years after private eye brother go on the run in the woods of the attacks on the World Trade Centre northern Idaho, pursued by four men they and the Pentagon. In Washington, DC, romantic suspense have just watched commit murder and Dick Morrow, retired spy chief and head who know exactly who William and Annie of the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans, sport are and where their desperate mother is is grappling with his wife’s imminent waiting for news of her children’s fate. The death. In London, former British special spy kids soon find they don’t know whom forces soldier Colin Mitchell is found they can trust among their LA transplant dead in a train station bathroom, the suspense/thriller neighbours, including hundreds of retired victim of an apparent overdose. In Southern California cops who’ve given the Virginia, Colin’s ex-lover, Katherine Pb = Paperback area its nickname, “Blue Heaven”. As a Caldwell, an Arabic specialist and Army Tp = Trade Paperback group of dirty cops spearhead the search Intelligence reservist, is unexpectedly (slightly larger) for William and Annie, one false move will called back to duty. Then another Hb = Hardback stop these children from ever finding their member of Colin’s special forces team is AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB way home. Due May (American) found dead… Due May (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Alex CHANCE Max Allan COLLINS Patrick CULHANE Final Days 496pp Tp $32.95 Strip for Murder 272pp Tp $27.95 Black Hats 288pp Pb $15.95 It started with a child’s letter. Karen Manhattan, 1953. Hal Rapp’s Tall Paul, This is the untold Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco one of America’s most popular comic story, rooted in factual psychologist, thought she understood strips, is now a Broadway musical, speculation, of two of moral dilemma. A tormented past, an infuriating Rapp’s long-time rival Sam the most notorious men ugly divorce, and a troubled 11-year-old Fizer, creator of the once beloved boxing of the early 20th daughter have given her more life strip Mug O’Malley. Adding insult to century, Wyatt Earp experience than she ever wanted. Now, injury is the casting of Misty Winters, and Al Capone. Earp somewhere out there, an anonymous Fizer’s wife, as one of Rapp’s hillbilly made his name in his child has begun to cry to her for help. No- gals. Then Fizer is found murdered, with younger days, serving one Karen knows is in trouble… Due May all evidence pointing to Rapp. Due May as a lawman that was (American) (American) well known for Mary Higgins CLARK John CONNOLLY bending the law where he saw fit, and Where Are You Now? The Reapers 480pp Tp $33.00 shooting first and asking questions later. 304pp Tp $29.95 Charley Parker But it’s a little-known fact that Earp spent It has been 10 years since 21-year-old #7. They are the the last 20 years of his life as a private Kevin MacKenzie, Jr (‘Mac’) went Reapers, the elite detective in Los Angeles. So when his best missing. A Columbia University senior among killers. Men friend, Doc Holliday’s, mistress implores about to graduate and already enrolled in so terrifying that the aging lawman to track down her and Duke University Law School, he walked their names are Holliday’s errant son in Manhattan, Earp out of his room and was never seen again. mentioned only in takes the case. Due May (American) However, he does ritually call his mother whispers. The Jordan DANE every year on her birthday, on his assassin Louis is one No One Left to Tell birthday and on Mother’s Day. Each time, of them. But now 384pp Pb $13.95 he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer Louis, and his The life of homicide detective Raven her frantic questions, then hangs up. partner, Angel, are themselves targets. Mackenzie is built on a foundation of the Mac’s sister Carolyn, now 26, sets out to And there is no shortage of suspects. law. She’d been practically raised by the discover what happened to him and why Thanks to former detective Charlie Central Station House after her father he has to hide from them. Due May Parker, help is on its way. But can Angel died in the line of duty. While (American) and Louis stay alive long enough for it to investigating a grisly murder, she is Harlen COBEN reach them? Due May (American) drawn to a stranger - a man whose past Hold Tight 352pp Tp $33.00 Robin COOK holds the key to finding a killer. Called on Tia and Mike Baye never imagined Critical 350pp Pb $19.95 to investigate businesswoman, and they’d become the type of overprotective Angela Dawson, MD, appears to suspected crime boss, Fiona Dunhill, parents who spy on their kids. But their 16- have it all. At 37, she owns a fabulous Raven finds herself drawn into a deadly year-old son Adam has been unusually New York City apartment, a stunning game. And the one man who can help her distant lately, and after the suicide of his seaside house on Nantucket and enjoys is the one man she can’t afford to trust... classmate Spencer Hill, they can’t help but the perks of her prosperous lifestyle. But Due May (American) worry. They install a sophisticated spy her climb to the top was rough, marked Keith R A DECANDIDO program on Adam’s computer and within by a troubled childhood, a failed CSI: NY Four Walls days they are jolted by a message from an marriage and the devastating blow of 352pp Pb $14.95 unknown correspondent addressed to bankruptcy. Then a surge of drug- Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, their son: “Just stay quiet and all safe.” resistant staph infections in all three Sheldon Hawkes and Don Flack are Meanwhile, browsing through an online hospitals devastates her carefully called in to investigate a double-homicide memorial for Spencer put together by his constructed world. Not only do the at a medium security facility on Staten classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo infections result in patient deaths, but the Island. The prison has been witness to a that appears to have been taken on the fatalities cause stock prices to tumble. Due lot of racially-motivated tensions and it night of her son’s death. And he wasn’t May (American) appears that things have finally boiled alone… Due May (American) Lesley COOKMAN over in a lethal fashion. Due May Max Allan COLLINS Murder in Midwinter Pb $19.95 (American) Criminal Minds 288pp Pb $13.95 Libby Sarjeant Mystery #3. Fran is Jo DERESKE Killer Profile (TV Series). An elite team consulted by Bella Morleigh, who has Index to Murder of FBI profilers is called in to help been left a derelict seaside theatre by an 272pp Pb $13.95 Chicago detectives investigate a series of unknown relative. Bella wants to know Miss Zukas Mystery #11. bizarre murders. Though all are violent more about her family, particularly when When Ruth, Helma and disturbing, the crimes seem a body is found in the theatre, and despite Zukas’ artist friend, unrelated, until profiler David Rossi being deep in pantomime rehearsals at suffers from a broken makes the connection. He recognises each The Oast House Theatre, Libby and Fran heart and decides to grisly tableau as one modelled on the are soon involved in another murder paint a retrospective of crime scenes of three of the country’s investigation. Due May (English) her ample love life she most notorious serial killers: David Patricia CORNWELL stirs up worries in Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Front 208pp Hb $35.00 Bellehaven about Dahmer. Someone is taking the cult of Winston Garano #2. Massachusetts exactly what she’ll true crime to terrifying extremes, and State Investigator Win Garano is given one expose. Mysteriously, with so many killers left to emulate, Rossi of his most challenging cases yet when he two of her paintings are stolen from her wonders how he can possibly profile a is asked to investigate the death of a young studio, each depicting a man who died killer who’s hiding within the killer British woman murdered more than 40 under mysterious circumstances. Due May profiles of others... Due May (American) years ago. Due May (American) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Selma EICHLER Earlene FOWLER David GIBBINS Murder Can Crash Your Party Tumbling Blocks Pb $15.95 The Last Gospel 432pp Tp $33.00 272pp Pb $13.95 Benni Harper Mystery #13. History is full of secrets. Secrets that Desiree Shapiro Investigating the death of a local socialite, have remained hidden for thousands of Mystery #7. Full- Benni Harper will need to crack an years. Enter Jack Howard, one of the figured Manhattan exclusive circle of suspects before one greatest archaeologists of his day, a man PI Desiree Shapiro more gourmet goose gets cooked in the who never stops believing, never gives doesn’t like public Agatha Award-winning series. Due May up hope that out there might be the next speaking - so she’s (American) big discovery. But when he and his best surprised when her Claire FRANCIS friend Costas are interrupted during a talk at a mystery The Unforgotten dive off the coast of Sicily that might writers’ convention 368pp Tp $32.95 possibly reveal the final journey of St is a hit. But she After five years, Paul, Jack has no idea what lies in store... receives an even lawyer Hugh Due May (English) bigger surprise when Gwynnea’s most Michele GIUTTARI eccentric author Belle Simone approaches difficult case has A Florentine Death her with a truly bizarre proposition. If finally come to 352pp Pb $23.00 Desiree can solve the mystery in Belle’s yet court. His client Tom Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara unpublished novel, she’ll be paid $24,940. Deacon is claiming knows that the beautiful surface of his Desiree is engrossed by Belle’s story of damages for post- adopted city, Florence, hides dark adultery and murder. But the real mystery traumatic stress after undercurrents. When called in to is: why someone would pay her such an a car accident in investigate a series of brutal and exorbitant sum to solve a homicide that which he witnessed apparently random murders, his exists only on paper? Due May (American) the death of his intuition is confirmed. Distrusted by his Anne EMERY daughter. The case is going well; it seems superiors and pilloried by the media, Sign of the Cross certain Tom will win the compensation Ferrara finds time running out as the 329pp Pb $29.95 that will enable him to pick up the pieces questions pile up. Is there a connection Monty Collins is a sharp-tongued public of his shattered life. Then Hugh receives between the murders and the threatening defender who just wants to represent an an letter that throws him into an letters he has received? Due May (Italian) upstanding character for a change. A impossible dilemma. To stay on the case is Friedrich GLAUSER priest with something to hide isn’t quite unethical, to withdraw will threaten its The Spoke (1937) what he had hoped for, but when the success, and Tom Deacon, revealing 165pp Pb $24.95 literate, arrogant, and tight-lipped Father himself in an entirely new light, makes it Sergeant Studer. Why must the festive Brennan Burke is implicated in the clear that such treachery will not be dinner in the Hirschen Inn be strange murder of a young woman, forgiven. Due May (English) interrupted? A murder puts an end to the Monty doesn’t just take the case - the case Scott FROST preparations for the wedding of Studer’s takes him. Due May (American) Point of No Return daughter. A man is found with a J F ENGLERT 320p Tp $33.00 sharpened bicycle spoke embedded in his Dog Among Diplomats Cathy Salem is desperate for Lieutenant back and a suspect is quickly arrested. 336pp Pb $13.95 Alex Delillo’s help. Her husband, Jason, Property speculation, usury and betrayed Bull Moose Dog Run Mystery #2. He reads an ex-LAPD officer now working for a love find their way into this tightly Proust. Surfs the net. Is the soul of private security firm, has officially been written novel, the last outing for Bernese diplomacy. And when it comes to solving listed as missing after he failed to return investigator Sergeant Studer. Due May crime, Randolph is the dog for the job. home from an 11-month placement in (Austrian) Murder has come to Manhattan’s East Iraq. It is only when Cathy herself Melissa GLAZER Village. And when detectives call 20- vanishes and Alex is nearly run off the Cracked Pot 224pp Pb $13.95 something artist Harry to the scene, his road whilst following a lead as to Jason’s Clay and Crime Mystery #2. When Labrador, Randolph, instantly smells a whereabouts, that she realises that this the body of a new potter with a rat. Due May (American) goes far beyond a simple missing persons mysterious past is found in Carolyn Joy FIELDING case... Due May (American) Emerson’s raku firing pit, she calls upon Charley’s Web Frances FYFIELD her studio’s pottery club, The Firing 448pp Tp $29.95 Blood from a Stone Squad, to dig up evidence and crack the A single mother who 320pp Tp $33.00 case. Due May (American) writes a Marianne Shearer is at the height of her Nadia GORDON controversial career, a dauntingly successful barrister, Murder Alfresco column for the Palm respected by her peers and revered by her 272pp Tp $25.95 Beach Post, Charley clients. So why has she killed herself? Her Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery. Webb has spent latest case had again resulted in an Walking home late one night from a years building an acquittal, though the outcome was party, Napa Valley restaurant owner emotional wall principally due to the death of the prime Sunny McCoskey happens upon the against scathing witness after Marianne’s forceful cross- shocking sight of a murdered woman, critics, snooty examination. Had this wholly bound and hanging from the tree of a neighbours and her professional and unemotional lawyer local vineyard. Shortly before, she’d seen disapproving family. been struck by guilt or uncertainty, or is a truck leaving a local winery, driving But when she receives a letter from Jill there some secret to be discovered in her without its headlights on. Was it the Rohmer, a young woman serving time on blandly comfortable private life? Due May murderer? And did the murderer see her death row for the murders of three small (English) as well? Due May (American) children, her wall slowly begins to crumble. Due May (American)

CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 5 Heather GRAHAM Jarad HENRY Katherine HOWELL The Death Dealer Blood Sunset 336pp Tp $29.95 The Darkest Hour 304pp Tp $29.95 In the grip of a blistering 400pp Tp $32.95 As a killer obsessed by Poe’s macabre Melbourne heat wave, a teenager is found Paramedic Lauren tales selects his victims from members of dead in a St Kilda loading bay with a Yates stumbles into a literary society devoted to the master syringe hanging from his arm. Is it an a world of trouble writer, author Genevieve O’Brien, fearing overdose or something more sinister? the night she that her mother will be next, enlists the Assigned to the case, Detective Rubens discovers a dead aid of PI Joe Connolly to stop the McCauley soon finds himself up against a man in an inner murders. (American) secret network of paedophiles, child city alley, for the Alex GRAY abusers and underage prostitutes. killer still lurks The Riverman 320pp Pb $20.00 Brilliantly plotted, this is witty, gritty nearby. When the When the dead body of a man is crime writing. Due May (Australian) murderer threatens fished out of Glasgow’s River Clyde the Jack HIGGINS to make her life morning after an office celebration, it Rough Justice 448pp Tp $33.00 hell if she tells the looks like a case of accidental death. An The master of police, she believes anonymous telephone call and a forensic the game is back, him – he is Miles Werner, her sister’s ex toxicology test, however, give DCI with another and father to Lauren’s niece, and a very Lorimer reason to think otherwise. Due pulse-pounding bad man indeed. But when a stabbing May (American) adventure victim tells her with his dying breath that Linda GREENLAW featuring the Werner attacked him too, she finds Slipknot 288pp Pb $13.95 unstoppable Sean herself with blood on her hands and From the bestselling non-fiction Dillon. While Detective Ella Marconi on her back. Due author of All Fishermen are Liars (Pb checking up on the May (Australian) $27.95) comes her debut novel, a mystery volatile situation in Declan HUGHES that introduces homicide detective- Kosovo, the US The Dying Breed turned-marine insurance investigator President’s right- 320p Tp $33.00 Jane Bunker, who investigates a murder hand man Blake Ed Loy #3. Even the best private eye needs in her newly adopted Maine town. Due Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a more than a name to find a missing May (American) member of the British Cabinet. Miller is person, but that’s all that Father Vincent Simon HALL there doing his own checks for the British Tyrrell, the brother of prominent Death Pictures 352p Pb $19.95 Prime Minister. When both men get racehorse trainer FX Tyrrell, will offer A dying artist creates a series of 10 involved with a group of Russian soldiers Loy when he comes to him for help. A paintings, The Death Pictures. They about to commit an atrocity, Miller puts dwindling bank account convinces Loy to contain a mysterious riddle that leads the and end to the scuffle with a bullet in the delve into the deadly underworld of way to a unique and highly valuable forehead of the ringleader… Due May horse racing, but fortune soon smiles on prize. Thousands attempt to solve it. But (English) him: while working another case, he before the answer can be revealed, the Jane HILL discovers a phone number linked to FX painter is murdered... Due May (English) Can’t Let Go 384pp Tp $34.95 on a badly beaten body left at an illegal dump. Loy’s been around long enough to Steve HAMILTON “I’m watching you. I know know that there’s more to the Tyrrell Night Work 320pp Tp $33.00 everywhere you go.” When Beth family than meets the eye - and then a Joe Trumble is a probation officer with Stephens opens the first mysterious note, third body appears... Due May (Irish) a tragedy in his past. Two years ago, his she is terrified. Someone out there, fiancée was brutally killed three days someone who seems to be stalking her The Colour of Blood before their wedding. No one has yet been every footstep, has pried open the terrible 354pp Pb $20.00 caught. Now Joe is heading for a blind secret she’s been hiding for over a decade. Ed Loy #2. A reputable dentist from a date with Marlene, a jewellery designer, And he is threatening to exact revenge... venerable medical family, Shane Howard his first encounter with a woman since his Due May (English) wants Loy to find his lost daughter after fiancée’s death. The evening is a success, Jane HITCHCOCK receiving a set of photographs featuring but next day Marlene is reported missing. Witches Hammer 400pp Pb $15.95 19-year-old Emily in provocative poses. Two days later, her body is found. Due A rare book collector in New York City But a simple missing persons case rapidly May (American) receives a grimoire, a medieval book of devolves into something even more sordid and grisly when two of the players Mo HAYDER black magic; shortly afterward, he is are savagely slain. And it’s only the Ritual 352pp Tp $32.95 murdered. His daughter, Beatrice beginning... Due May (Irish) Just after lunch O’Connell, believes that the grimoire is on a Tuesday in April, connected to the murder and vows to find Eve ISHERWOOD nine feet under water, out. She soon realises there is a powerful Absent Light police diver Flea conspiracy connected to the grimoire, as 410pp Pb $19.95 Marley closes her well as to another tome, a 15th century Helen Powers was once a ‘scenes of gloved fingers around a book written to encode Christendom’s crimes’ officer for the West Midlands human hand. The fact eradication of witchcraft. As she grapples Police. It is four years since a case that there is no body with the conspiracy, Beatrice also involving the death of a young teenage attached is disturbing struggles with her long-dormant girl shattered her career. In an attempt to enough. Even more sexuality, now awakened to a fierce pitch. rebuild her life, she now works as a disturbing is the discovery, one day later, This provocative, compelling and portrait photographer, but the past is not of the matching hand. Both have been unsettling novel brilliantly explores the so easily left behind. Due May (English) recently amputated and the indications are misogyny of Western culture, particularly that the victim was still alive when they of the Catholic Church. Due May were removed. Due May (English) (American)

ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 Lisa JACKSON Julia KRISTEVA Laura LEVINE Absolute Fear 560pp Pb $20.00 Murder in Byzantium Death by Pantyhose For three months, Eve Renner has 264pp Tp $34.95 256pp Pb $13.95 struggled to remember the night she was In this absorbing, suspenseful novel, Jaine Austen Mystery #6. When freelance nearly killed. She remembers getting the Kristeva combines social satire, medieval writer Jaine Austen starts writing jokes anxious call from a friend from her past; history, philosophy, psychoanalytic for a stand-up comic, she soon sees the she remembers seeing that friend lying in theory and autobiography within a dark side of comedy after the comic’s a pool of blood. And she remembers a gruesome murder mystery. It deftly rival is found dead. It’s up to Jaine to horrifying glimpse of her lover Cole moves from 11th century Europe, figure out whodunit. Due May Dennis’s face as a gunshot plunged her wracked by the turbulence of the First (American) into darkness. Now, her memory and Crusade, to the sun-dappled, cultural Elizabeth LOWELL emotions scarred, Eve has returned to wasteland of present-day Santa Varvara, Innocent as Sin 432pp Pb $15.95 New Orleans to forget the past just as a threatened by religious cults, gangs and a Rand McCee new series of killings begins… Due May serial killer on the loose. (English) just wants to be able (American) Martin LANGFIELD to lose himself in Steve JACKSON The Malice Box 560pp Pb $19.95 his painting. After Judas 400pp Pb $20.00 When Robert Reckliss is sent what his twin brother is Steve Jackson does for MI6 what seems to be a copper puzzle box, he has shot before his eyes Chris Ryan did for the SAS. Four people no idea his life is about to undergo violent while on a scouting can keep a secret if three of them are transformation. That night, an mission for St Kilda dead! In Rome, the severed hand of a acquaintance kills himself in curious Consulting, a retired MI6 head of station is found at one circumstances; the following day, an old Manhattan-based, of the city’s landmarks. The hand is friend reveals the existence of an arcane global business that holding a bag containing 30 silver pieces. weapon that could wipe the Western concentrates on the Meanwhile, in London, MI6 agent Paul world from the face of the planet. And the shadow world Aston is on the point of quitting. Once on responsibility for hunting down this where governments can’t go. He has the MI6 fast track, his career has stalled. weapon, this Malice Box, lies with Robert. finally come to terms with the fact that he He has been passed over for one Due May (American) will never be able to find the man who promotion too many; his colleagues treat Jim & Joyce LAVENE shot his twin, the man known as ‘The him like a leper. When he is approached Perfect Poison Siberian’. Kayla Shaw is an Arizona to head up a new task force, he jumps at 304pp Pb $15.95 banker. Little does she realise that as she the chance. Due May (American) Peggy Lee Garden Mystery #4. When has been helping a rich socialite plan how Iris JOHANSEN drowned bodies start surfacing with an to finance an art exhibition she has been Pandora’s Daughter unusual plant caught in one of the unwittingly caught up in a web of lies 384pp Pb $15.95 victims’ hair, forensic botanist and and money laundering. Due May For as long as she can remember, detective’s widow Peggy Lee is on the (American) successful young physician Megan Blair case. Due May (American) Stuart MACBRIDE has tried to silence the voices in her head David LAWRENCE Flesh House 480pp Tp $30.00 that bring her to the edge of madness and Down into Darkness A new Logan McRae thriller set in terror. Megan possesses psychic powers 416pp Pb $19.95 gritty Aberdeen. Aberdeen is panicking. that have been dormant for years, hidden Stella Mooney #4. The naked body of a It’s been 18 years since Grampian Police deep in the past she’s tried so desperately young woman is found hanging from a caught the Flesher, the notorious serial to forget. But now everything has come to tree on a London roadside. Scrawled killer who butchered people all over the a boiling point - someone is trying to kill across her back, the words “Dirty Girl”. UK, and seven years since he was her… Due May (American) Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the released from Peterhead prison, his Alice KIMBERLY AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as conviction overturned on appeal. But The Ghost and the Femme baffling as it is chilling. Due May (English) when a container full of joints of human Fatale 256pp Pb $13.95 Elmore LEONARD meat turns up at Aberdeen Harbour, it Haunted Bookshop Up in Honey’s Room kicks off the largest man hunt in Mystery #4. The local 336pp Pb $19.95 Aberdeen’s history. Due May (Scottish) Film Noir festival German-born Walter Schoen, now living Paul McAULEY takes a dark turn in Detroit, is a dead ringer for Heinrich Players 544pp Pb $19.95 when a legendary Himmler. Walter’s American wife, Honey A teenage girl found naked and fatally femme fatale is nearly Deal, doesn’t know he’s a German spy, injured in a mountain forest 200 miles killed. Now bookstore but she’s tired of telling him jokes he from her home. The mutilated corpse of a owner Penelope doesn’t understand - it’s time for a young man in the Nevada desert, his Thornton-McClure divorce. Along comes Carl Webster, the heart and eyes removed. The post- enlists the help of Jack hot kid of the Marshals Service. He’s apocalyptic world of a role-playing Shepard, PI, even looking for a German officer who escaped computer game - and the murderous though he and his licence expired more from a POW camp in Oklahoma. Carl’s spree of a psychopathic killer driven by than 50 years ago. Due May (American) pretty sure Walter is involved, so Carl delusions of superhuman supremacy. Roberta KRAY gets to know Honey, hoping she’ll take And rookie detective Summer Zeigler, The Lost 320pp Pb $21.95 him to Walter. Honey likes Carl and pitched headlong into her first major case. Private eye Harry Lind doesn’t doesn’t much care that he’s married. But But even as she tries to unpick the killer’s believe in ghosts. Little Grace Harper all Carl wants is to get his man without twisted logic, he lures her into a cat-and- went missing over 20 years ago. Missing getting shot. Due May (American) mouse game with a spectacular climax of girls can’t just reappear, can they? It takes his own devising. Due May (American) a brutal murder to make him think again. Due May (English)

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