“Where a good crime can be had by all” ISSUE #285 OCTOBER 2009 PEter TEmpLE bestselling author of The Broken Shore (winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger) and its sequel Truth will be in-store to sign copies on Thurs 29 October @ 12.30pm Peter MILne reCommends... Scottish author Philip Kerr Bill JAMES has won the world’s most Off-Street Parking 224pp Tp $27.95 lucrative crime fiction prize, Detective Constable Sharon Mayfield is on routine the RBA International Prize surveillance when she spots, outside his house, a dead for Crime Writing, for his man in a car. The locks had been sealed with superglue novel If the Dead Rise and Claude Huddart’s face has been mutilated. As with Not. Kerr’s book beat more most murders, there’s a jigsaw puzzle to be solved. than 160 others to land the But here the pieces don’t fit. Why is an informant, €125,000 (A$209,500) prize. Jeremy Dince, if that is his real name, being almost The book is the last in his exceptionally polite and helpful? And there’s just series of ‘Berlin noir’ novels something that doesn’t feel right about the grieving featuring detective Bernie Alice Huddart. Then there’s the younger and more Gunther, and covering a period that includes sinister Philip Otton, acquaintance of the bereaved Hitler’s rise to power and postwar Germany’s struggle Alice, and known to both Blenny and Dince. Sharon to come to terms with its past. The author said he was cannot fathom why she is being warned off and cannot work out the connection surprised at the size of the prize: “I recently got a prize between the protagonists until her police officer boyfriend Luke drops strange in France which was a few bottles of wine.” hints about the case and about her commanding officers. (English)Due Oct Now in Stock! Dan BroWN Stieg LARSSON The Lost Symbol 448pp Hb $39.95 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest Six years in the writing, the sequel to Dan Brown’s 576pp Tp $32.95 internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code (both Pb The third instalment in the $19.95), is now available! bestselling Millennium trilogy. Special Offer: Get a FREE copy of Ritual by Mo Hayder (normally Special Offer: Get a FREE copy of Dead $21.95) with every purchase while stock lasts. Line by Stella Rimington with every purchase while stock lasts. MODERN CRIME James BECKER Stephen L CARTER The Moses Stone Palace Council 528pp Pb $24.95 Megan ABBOTT 475pp Pb $21.95 Summer, Bury Me Deep 256pp Pb $22.99 A clay tablet covered in ancient writing is 1952. 20 powerful Inspired by a notorious true crime, this found by an English couple in Morocco. A men gather is the story of Marion Seeley, a young woman day later they are dead, killed in a car crash. in secret and abandoned in Phoenix by her husband. At But where is the relic they died to protect? devise a plot to the medical clinic where she finds a job, she Determined to uncover a secret that’s manipulate the is swept up in the exuberant life of her co- endured for two millennia, Chris Bronson President of the workers, who supplement their scant income follows a trail of clues that leads him on United States. by entertaining the town’s most powerful a deadly chase for the truth. Threatened Soon after, writer men with wild parties. At one of these events, on every side by violent extremists, he is Eddie Wesley Marion meets Joe Lanigan, a local rogue plunged into a mystery rooted in biblical leaves a party and politician on the rise, whose ties to all times. (English) hosted by affluent three women bring events to a dramatic and Lawrence BLOCK and influential deadly collision. (American) Due Oct Hit and Run 304pp Pb $22.99 members of black P J ALDERMAN Keller #4. Keller quickly finds that his society, and discovers a body. The murdered Haunting Jordan newest job might not just mark the end of his man had an unusual gold cross gripped 432pp Pb $16.95 career, it could be the end of him, period. He between his hands and Eddie is determined Jordan Marsh left LA realises he was never meant to make the hit to find out why he was killed and what the in pursuit of some - he was just supposed to take the fall when cross signifies. (American) Due Oct much-needed R & R. a prominent politician was gunned down by Carla CASSIDY As the prime suspect someone else. (American) Due Oct Up Close and Personal in her husband’s Chelsea CAIN 336pp Pb $16.95 murder, she planned Evil at Heart 320pp Tp $32.99 Detective Jordan Sampson is struggling to immerse herself in Archie and Gretchen #3. A college to maintain a relationship with her young the restoration of the student is found dead, floating in a rowing daughter, while enjoying a new romance with charming Victorian boat on a lake, a gaping wound in his an old flame. But Jordan’s personal life takes she’d just bought. But abdomen. The autopsy reveals that his a dangerous turn when her old friends from as she soon discovers, spleen was removed while he was still alive. school are killed off one by one. (American) the coldest of cases cry Gretchen Lowell, the ‘Beauty Killer’, still at Due Oct out to be solved, too. large following her prison escape, is back Laura CHILDS For this old house comes fully furnished with and she’s killing again. But Detective Archie Death Swatch 336pp Pb $16.95 two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old Sheridan, on medical leave following his last Scrapbooking Mystery #6. Amid Zydeco murder of their own they’d like her to look run-in with Gretchen, isn’t so sure. (American) rhythms and popping champagne corks, into. (American) Due Oct Due Oct scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is KEY to crime genres having a wild night at a Mardi Gras party - until she finds a float designer murdered on a Suspense Thriller Romantic Suspense balcony. (American) Due Oct Peter CHURCH Dark Video 288pp Pb $29.95 Feline Detectives Police Procedural What begins as a semi-illegal assault on a fellow student soon takes a sinister turn for the worse, as moral bridges are crossed Forensic FBI and then burned in the quest for the perfect reality video. (American) Due Oct N J COOPER Political/Legal Cosy/Malice Domestic No Escape 384pp Pb $19.99 Karen Taylor #1. Spike Falconer is Military Journalists in prison on the Isle of Wight - convicted Spy Private Eye of murder. Forensic psychologist Karen Taylor comes to Banking Psychological probe the mind of this psychopath. Trying to recover from the death of Canine Clerical her husband and the dark memories surrounding it, Karen is drawn into life on the Island. She becomes involved with Culinary/Food Medical DCI Charlie Trench, cool and abrasive, the opposite in every way from her partner Will Hawkins. Meanwhile, someone on the Island Sport Horse Racing doesn’t want Karen getting too close to Spike and the more she learns, the more afraid PB = PAPERBACK HB = HARDBACK she becomes - and then they start to act... (English) Due Oct TP = TRADE PAPERBACK (Slightly Larger) www.abbeys.com.au 2 Abbey’s Bookshop 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Michael CORDY Leif DAVIDSEN James ELLROY The Source 512pp Pb $21.95 The Woman from Bratislava Blood’s a Rover 656pp Tp $32.95 When geologist Ross Kelly’s wife, 280pp Pb $22.99 Underworld USA #3. Summer, 1968. pregnant with their first child, is attacked In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are and left hovering on the brink of death, he Danish university lecturer, receives a visit dead. The assassination conspiracies have seeks salvation in a mysterious centuries-old from an Eastern European woman who turns begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is manuscript, which chronicles the discovery out to be his half-sister. In Copenhagen, getting ready to deploy at the Democratic of Eden. Although everyone tells him the Teddy’s older sister is arrested on suspicion of Convention in Chicago. Black militants story is surely an allegory, the possibility of being a Stasi agent and a murder leads Teddy are warring in south side LA. The Feds are the garden’s existence offers Ross the only to investigate the relationship between the concocting draconian countermeasures. And hope of saving Lauren and their unborn child. two women. (Denmark) Due Oct fate has placed three men at the vortex of Racing against time, a lethal assassin and Tim DAVYS History. Their lives collide in pursuit of the a fanatical priest, Ross’s quest will lead him Amberville 352pp Tp $34.95 Red Goddess Joan - and each of them will eventually to a place that might challenge Eric Bear thinks pay ‘a dear and savage price to live History.’ everything he ever thought about the source he has escaped his (American) Due Oct of life on earth. (English) Due Oct violent past, but when Christy EVANS Patricia CORNWELL crime boss Nicholas Sink Trap 256pp Pb $14.95 The Scarpetta Factor Dove threatens Eric’s Georgiana Neverall Mystery #1. Former 512pp Hb $49.99 beloved wife Emma corporate drone Georgiana Neverall loves her Kay Scarpetta Rabbit, Eric has no new occupation as a plumber’s apprentice, #17. An apparent choice but to do what but is a bit surprised when she finds the threat on he asks - find a way favourite brooch of Martha Tepper, the town’s Scarpetta’s to remove Dove’s former librarian, clogging a sink.