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CRIME ALLEY at Abbey's Bookshop, 131 York Street Sydney is Australia's specialist bookstore collection of crime fiction and true crime non-fiction. Detective mystery, Police procedural, rural noir, Scandi noir, psychological thriller - whatever your tastes, we have a whole wall of new release crime writing, and then aisles of crime fiction, covering modern crime novels, historical crime fiction, cosy crime books and true crime books.
We've had a whole aisle filled with Australian Crime Fiction in our shop at 131 York Street for decades. DECADES! All this great, home-grown writing is showcased on our website. You can see a selection of recent Australian Crime Fiction below and click through on the Category link to see even more.
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Secrets in the Cotswolds (#17 Cotswold Mysteries)
Paperback
$19.99
To be ordered
Fear on the Phantom Special (#17 Railway Detective)...
Paperback
$19.99
To be ordered
COSY CRIME - Most cosy crime books come from overseas, so if they are not showing as 'In Stock' then we expect they will be delayed in getting to us, until things get back to some kind of normal.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When I started in on this, the bold and brash tone of the narrator, Iris Carmichael, took me by surprise. Who is this woman? What a piece of work!
Iris is one half of the Carmichael twins, potential heirs to the Carmichael fortune. Things for Iris are not going to plan and she envies her sister's life with her perfect marriage, and despite being an identical twin, Iris knows she's not built in the same way as her sunny, easygoing sister, Summer.
As rock solid as the other 'Girls' (Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train), this is an absolutely engrossing read - a psych-thriller cocktail with a dash of Jekyll and Hyde and a garnish of Dynasty and Dallas (or Succession and Grand Hotel). A movie is on the way but by then you will know everything. EVERYTHING. Craig Kirchner
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Ruth McIver's novel won the Richell Prize 2018 for emerging writers and although I'm in the early stages of the book, I can see why it won and I've flagged this as one of my picks because the writing is of such quality and depth.
The scenario being laid out is of a young journalist revisiting a traumatic part of her life for an article she's been convinced by her Editor to write. The details surrounding this dark part of her life when, as a teenager, she was in the fold with wayward friends in a fug of drugs, bad sex and heavy metal that ended in a climactic murder that scandalised the nation. The media at the time spun stories of satanism, yet I feel we're on an unsettling journey towards knowing what really happened on that night. Craig Kirchner
(p.s. my brain insists on singing about not shooting the deputy)
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot...
Paperback
$32.99
Forthcoming
Public Enemies: Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox, Ray Denning and...
Paperback
$32.99
Forthcoming
131 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
