“where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all” c h r o n i c l e Issue #223 August 2004 Meet the author ALSO BY KARIN SLAUGHTER... Karin Slaughter Thurs 26 August 6pm - 7pm Blindsighted... Light refreshments will be served (Pb 19.95) NOMINATED for the Barry Award for Best First Novel and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel. SHORTLISTED for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel of 2001 VOTED one of the best mysteries of the year by the Washington Post, the Florida Sun-Sentinel, Book Sense and Deadly Pleasures magazine. Kisscut... (Pb 19.95) "A tension-filled narrative with plenty of plot twists… This is just the ticket for readers who like their crime Indelible... fiction on the dark side." by Karin Slaughter (Pb 19.95) - Booklist When medical examiner Sara Linton "With Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter left a great many and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a mystery writers looking anxiously over their shoulders. trip away from the small town of With Kisscut, she leaves most of them behind. This is a Heartsdale -- an escape from all the serious attempt to deal with difficult subject matter, and it pressures which complicate their succeeds brilliantly." relationship -- it should be a - John Connolly straightforward weekend at the beach. But they decide to take a "Karin Slaughter is an impressive new landmark on the detour via Jeffrey's home town and thriller map." things go violently wrong when - Val McDermid Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his house. Jeffrey and Sara are first on the scene and Jeffrey's keen to clear A Faint Cold Fear... his friend's name, but for Sara things (Pb 19.95) aren't so simple. The sear marks around the bullethole don't tally with “Don't read this alone. Don't read this after dark. Robert's story. Robert's wife, Jessie, But do read it” is incoherent and confused. And - Mirror when Jeffrey appears to change the crime scene, Sara no longer knows “Slaughter keeps baring her living characters' psychic who to trust. 12 years later, Sara and wounds in scene after scene with a remarkable intensity Jeffrey are caught up in a shockingly the reigning postmortem specialists, Patricia Cornwell brutal attack which threatens to and Kathy Reichs, can't match.” destroy both their lives. But they're - Kirkus Review not random victims. They've been targeted. And it seems the past is “A gread read - crime fiction at its finest.” catching up with both of them... - Michael Connelly 2 Modern Crime Jonathan AYCLIFFE Mark BILLINGHAM A Garden Lost in Time Lazybones 454pp Pb 19.95 Kathleen ANTRIM 286pp Hb 49.95 Someone, a Capital Offense Cornwall, 1917. After the death of his 385pp Pb 15.95 woman or somebody father, 15-year-old Simon Lysaght is sent pretending to be a This is a political thriller about to live with his uncle, Sir David woman, is writing to an ambitious First Lady caught Trevelyan, at their estate house, convicted rapists in in a web of murder and deceit. Is Trevelyan Priors. On his first day, he prison, befriending she plotting to overthrow the President? discovers there have been a number of them and then This seems inconceivable to journalist family suicides and his cousin William, brutally killing them Jack Ridley. (American) who is crippled and bed-ridden, warns when they are Jake ARNOTT him never to wander the corridors after released. DI Tom Truecrime 338pp Pb 20.95 dark. (Irish) Thorne must It is 30 years since Mary Lynn BAXTER discover the link between these killings Harry Starks and his Without You 376pp Pb 14.95 and a murder/suicide that took place 25 gang kept the Jackson Cole is shocked when he years before. (English) underworld of Soho hears a troubled friend has been found Ethan BLACK under control, but murdered in a New Orleans hotel room Dead for Life 373pp Pb 17.95 the consequences of and he is the prime suspect in her death. Ethan Black delivers another their brutal reign are Divorce attorney Hallie Hunter can lightning-paced, darkly compelling novel still being felt. hardly keep her composure when Jackson of suspense featuring NYPD detective Moving his focus to walks through her door, begging her to Conrad Voort, in which a tragic error the greedy 1980s and represent him. It can mean only one from the past holds the key to stopping the 1990s rave scene, thing; she will have to spend time alone an oddly sympathetic killer bent on the Arnott delivers another hard-edged with the man who once violated her trust worst kind of revenge. (American) novel. (English) and the only man she has ever loved. Giles BLUNT (American) The Delicate Storm KEY Greg BEAR 466pp Pb 18.95 academic Dead Lines 295pp Tp 29.95 A freak warm front, rolling north all the Peter Russell lost a daughter to a way from Texas, slips across the Great banking serial killer. Now he gets by as Mr Fixit Lakes and covers Ontario. In a matter of for a film millionaire who invests in a hours, the entire population of Algonquin canine detectives new kind of phone. The problem with the Bay has emerged to stroll in the streets in Trans is you can also talk to the dead, spring jackets. But the warm front brings clerical though that was not part of the design with it a dense blanket of fog and a spec. A cascade of transgression and sudden increase in the murder rate. A cosy/malice domestic murder is unleashed as sales of the Trans stylish and atmospheric thriller featuring take off. Harried near to death by his detectives Cardinal and Delorme. culinary/food murdered child, Russell must find out (Canadian) who killed her. (American) C J BOX fbi M C BEATON Winterkill 338pp Pb 15.95 Death of a Cad (1987) Game Warden Joe Pickett’s feline detectives 214pp Pb 15.95 pursuit of a killer through the rugged A Hamish Macbeth mystery. Following a mountains of Wyoming takes a forensic society party, one of the guests, boorish horrifying turn when his beloved foster cad Captain Bartlett, has the bad manners daughter is kidnapped. Now, it really is horse racing mystery to be murdered on a grouse hunt. The personal. (American) medical titled party guests are the prime suspects. Kathy BRANDT And a second shocking murder is the last Dark Water Dive 263pp Pb military straw. Hamish Macbeth tracks the 13.95 murderer, as he woos the lovely Priscilla. An underwater investigation. Homicide native american (English) detective Hannah Sampson has traded Ted BELL the Colorado Rockies for the sunnier police procedural Hawke 582pp Pb 17.95 climes of the British Virgin Islands. But a A highly murdered tourist and colleagues eager to political/legal experimental stealth sink her career, have left Hannah submarine, built by the navigating the stormy waters of betrayal, psychological Soviets just before the greed and murder as cold as the deep end of the Cold War, is blue sea. (American) private eye missing. She carries 40 nuclear warheads and romantic suspense is believed to be in the ORDER ONLINE... hands of a very sport unstable government just 90 miles from the spy US mainland. Hawke is in a race against time. (American) suspense/thriller AUTHOR’S NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB CRIME CHRONICLE www.abbeys.com.au 3 Kirsty BROOKS Carol Higgins CLARK Patricia CORNWELL The Vodka Dialogue Popped 337pp Pb 15.95 Blow Fly 465pp Tp 29.95 409pp Pb 19.95 LA-based PI Regan Reilly heads to The new Scarpetta novel. When the Cassidy Blair, 29 years old and addicted Las Vegas to help out her old school architect of Kay’s changed fortunes to pot noodles, is making little progress chum, Danny Madley who is producing a contacts her from his cell on death row convincing customers at DVD World that reality TV show when accidents start (deformed, blinded by Scarpetta’s own John Hughes’ movies are better than happening on the set. From the kitschy actions, incarcerated in Texas strongest recreational drugs. But when she helps a glamour of the Las Vegas casinos and prison), Jean- Baptiste Chardonne still colleague spy on a wayward fiancé, and run-down hotels of the Strip, to the has the ability to terrify. (American) gets paid rather well for her trouble, Cass world-famous Albuquerque Hot Air Clive CUSSLER realises she has the perfect credentials for Balloon Fiesta, this is a funny, fast-paced White Death 509pp Pb 19.95 any PI; she is tense, cynical and slightly romp! (American) Numa Files #2. A Kurt Austin grouchy. Plus she owes the VISA Mary Jane CLARK adventure. When a confrontation between company a lot of cash. Assisted by the Nowhere to Run355pp Pb 15.95 a radical environmentalist group and a handy skills of her friends and her Botulism, Danish cruiser erupts, Austin is forced to favourite cocktail, the Vodka Dialogue, anthrax, small pox and rescue a ship full of trapped men. Cass manages to follow the trail and plague: as medical However, after investigation, he escape from more embarrassing incidents producer for discovers that something far more than she has ever known in her life. All television’s highly- sinister is at work. (American) this from a girl who has been drunk on rated morning news Jeffrey DEAVER Wheel of Fortune! (Australian) program, Key to Garden of Beasts 401pp Hb 45.00 Larry BROOKS America, Annabelle With Prohibition over and the gang Bait and Switch 392pp Pb 17.95 Murphy makes her wars associated with it coming to an end, Meet Wolfgang Schmitt: former living explaining Paul Schumann is finding less and less model, newly single, habitual wise-ass.