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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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Erina Reddan's mystery is set in Stone Lake, Victoria and centres around Charli who desperately wants to leave the small town when she receives a cryptic message from someone at The Sanctuary - a conservative closed community in the forest...
Benjamin Stevenson's mystery is an amusing story set on the Ghan between Darwin and Adelaide and centres around 6 writers, 5 detectives, 4 days, 3 weapons, 2 murders and 1 train. With all of them knowing how to get away with murder, it's going to be difficult to solve the crime.
Chris Hammer's latest is set in a fictional town in the Riverina where seven families hold political, economic and social power. While writing a thesis, a descendant of the founders is murdered and detectives, Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are brought in to investigate.
Michael Trant's latest crime novel centres around Gabe who featured in Wild Dogs. This time he finds himself in a small cattle community where all lines of communication have gone down and every road in and out of the town is blocked off by flooding.
Ned Kelly Award nominee David Whish-Wilson returns with his follow-up to True West. A very satisfying mystery, well-paced with Whish-Wilson's trainee private investigator, Lee Southern, being a compelling 'tough guy' along the lines of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Greg Hurwitz's Orphan X, and Garry Disher's Wyatt.
The amusing first line in Karen Herbert's new mystery sets the tone, "No-one ever made a movie about the murder of a bureaucrat". Herbert takes you from a recognisable (to any office worker) office scenario and leads you into a story of corruption.
Dave Warner's new mystery is set in 1967 and two Sydney detectives are in California looking for the missing son of an Australian politician. The trail leads into the summer sunshine of hippie and festival culture, which the two embrace with enthusiasm, and Warner has fun setting the scene with cameos from musicians of the moment.
Jack Heath's thrilling novel follows Timothy Blake as he investigates a convicted kidnapper. During the investigation he is affected by urges he can't control. His girlfriend Zara suspects something sinister is going on. Will he survive and if he does will anyone believe him?
Australia's Most Infamous Criminals
Gripping stories of bold heists,...
Paperback
$34.99
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Australia's Most Infamous Jail
Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison...
Paperback
$34.99
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Old Whiskey and Young Women
American True Crime Tales of Murder,...
Hardback
$55 $14
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Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors in Northern California...
Paperback
$37.99 $10
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Chasing Shadows
A true story of drugs, war and the...
Paperback
$34.99
Not in-store but you can order this
How to Solve a Crime
Real Cases from the Cutting Edge...
Paperback
$24.99
Not in-store but you can order this
The Pudding Lane Plot
The Fifteenth Thomas Chaloner Adventure...
Paperback
$24.99
Not in-store but you can order this
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
The ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher...
Paperback
$22.99
In Stock 😊
It has long been tradition (since 1968) that no music is played in Abbey's Bookshop. Not because we don't like music, but simply because Eve and Ron Abbey were very fond of the respite from the outside world and contemplation that come with browsing in our bookshop.
If, however, you were wanting to listen to something while browsing and wanting a change from your usual, then we've compiled a few playlists that, like our curation of books, are sprinkled with the less familiar and swerve into laneways less-travelled.
131 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
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