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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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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- 'Strong Mum on the run' is a genre that Kate Mildenhall's novel nails. Mim's husband, working offshore in Indonesia on a mining project, goes missing and when The Department comes around asking questions, Mim realises that she and her children are no longer safe.
Set in Australia-not-too-distant (no flying cars but everyone is 'chipped' - think of a mini 'Australia Card' embedded in your palm), this novel taps into the 'Big Brother' surveillance concerns we face as a society. I used to be fairly relaxed about this, buying the 'if you're not doing anything wrong' line, but recent news of Australian business and home security cameras hacked and streaming their vision on Russian websites to anyone in the world is alarming. And of facial recognition software being rolled out in the cities of China and elsewhere - increasingly we are being buttoned down tightly. Chip implants to follow!
There are some big ideas here but this isn't only about future tech and political possibilities, it's also about Mim and how this new threat affects her self-image as Mum, wife, daughter, sister, stirring something more primal, more self-contained as she faces each new challenge. Craig Kirchner
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This is the follow up to the fabulous Good Girl Bad Girl, and follows the deepening friendship between criminal psychologist Cyrus Haven and the troubled Evie, and reveals more of their separate pasts. Cyrus in an attempt to help solve the mystery of Evie's identity, inadvertently alerts the men who have been trying to track her down. Evie knows things, and they aren't the sort of things that the men she's been hiding from want anyone else to know As usual for a Robotham novel, there are twists and turns and clever writing, and you pick up the book thinking you'll just read a little bit and hours later emerge - totally addictive! Lindy Jones
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide...
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael McGurk...
Paperback
$22.99
In Stock
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill: The New Hercule Poirot...
Paperback
$32.99
In Stock
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.
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide...
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock
Dead Man Walking: The Murky World of Michael McGurk...
Paperback
$22.99
In Stock
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies...
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock
Court Number One, The Old Bailey: The Trials and Scandals...
Paperback
$24.99
To be ordered
Sherlock's Sisters: Stories from the Golden Age of the...
Paperback
$16.99
Forthcoming
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide...
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock
131 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
