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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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Note: All books included in your order will be dispatched in one delivery when Cobalt Blue arrives. Or you can put this book in a separate order.
FREE EVENT
As part of Fremantle Press' A SHOT IN THE DARK crime author talks, Dave Warner will join us at Abbey's Bookshop to talk about the latest novel in his DI Dan Clement crime series, AFTER THE FLOOD. The evening will include a Q&A and book signing. For those who can't attend in person, we will also be streaming the event live for you to watch from the comfort of your lounge.
Jane Harper (The Dry) says 'A heart-wrenching mystery, Hayley Scrivenor's remarkable sense of place brings Dirt Town to life. A stellar debut.'
Esther's buried body is discovered. Esther will always be a Dirt Town child. With emotional depth and sensitivity, this stunning debut from Hayley Scrivenor shows us how much each person matters in a community that is at once falling apart and coming together.
A long, burning summer in Sydney. A young woman found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school. A serial killer preying on victims along the banks of the Parramatta River. A city on edge.
Adam Bowman, a battling journalist who grew up as the son of a teacher at Prince Albert College, might be the only person who can uncover the links between the school murder and the 'Blue Moon Killer'.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK --- Nineteen years ago nine year old Evelyn McCreery disappeared, never to be seen again. She vanished from the room she shared with her twin sister Mina, in the station house on a remote property, with no tracks, footprints, fingerprints or evidence of forced entry. She left behind a shattered family - a mother who refused to give up searching and posted a million dollar reward, a broken father and her sister who have suffered years of whispers, innuendo and trauma. When a private investigator, Lane Holland, who has had success in other cases and who has a need for the reward, contacts the reclusive Mina, his urgency masks other motives. What he knows and she doesn't is that all those years ago, he was in the area
A twisty and evocative rural crime novel with characters who aren't particularly sympathetic or likeable but are all too understandable; one that not only delivers a seemingly intractable mystery but which examines the consequences of unsolved events, how they impact not only the immediate family but the wider community, and even those with no connection but fascination in others' misery. Lindy Jones
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK --- Hannah Rokeby has applied to work on a project that examines condemned prisoners' appeals, aiming to save innocent people from death row. Something seems amiss from the beginning, as she inveigles her way into a closed intake and a particular case; her motives are murky to say the least, and her methods turn out to be unethical. Interspersed between these activities are diary entries from 25 years ago, which we realise are her mother's. As Hannah pursues her own desire for justice and revenge on behalf of her mother, she doesn't understand that justice can come at a high price indeed, and innocence is relative
Unlike McTiernan's previous Galway police-centred novels, this one is a legal procedural story set in America so it's quite different - but like the Cormac Reilly books, it is a finely crafted story with a very interesting set-up! Lindy Jones
NOW IN PAPERBACK Ever have the feeling you're being watched? A smart, unsettling, unputdownable literary thriller from J P Pomare...
Truly, Darkly, Deeply
the gripping thriller with a huge...
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$32.99
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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A bright and breezy novel with a very entertaining bunch of misfits, and a likeable protagonist who is street smart, a good judge of character (as long as she isn't romantically involved with them) and who has the enduring mystery of her own origins. Brick (named for the lane she was abandoned in as a baby) tries to help her ex-footballer ex-session muso Uncle Baz and their beloved but battered Brunswick St pub, by taking a job with the local council - for which she is eminently unsuitable for and unsuited to.
She soon finds herself faced with a few dilemmas, starting with the stinking corpse of the local mayor in the locked archives of the council building and winding up with murderous businessmen and corrupt politicians - via a possible romantic entanglement with an irritating journalist, the clandestine activities of a paranoid record shop owner and an assortment of fabulous characters who offer help of varying usefulness (the ASIO/parking-ticket inspector/drag-queen was one of my favourites!)
Full of local colour and inner Melbourne settings, this is a great romp, thoroughly enjoyable with delightful cast of eccentric characters. I hope to see more of Brick! Lindy Jones
Rae Cairns' novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction.
Sarah Calhoun is a regular Sydney soccer mum, but she's keeping terrifying secrets from everyone she loves... and her past is about to catch up with her. When two men from Northern Ireland hunt her down, she's forced to return to Belfast to testify at a murder trial. Caught in the crossfire of an obsessive policeman driven by a disturbing past, and a brutal IRA executioner, Sarah faces an impossible choice: lie and allow a killer to walk free, or tell the truth and place her children in the line of fire.
Lyn McFarlane's atmospheric and intelligent crime thriller is set in a hospital where nothing is as it seems...
Meredith Griffin manages the emergency department at St Jude Hospital. A specialist in psychiatric nursing, she's also an expert at hiding her own problems - and solving everyone else's.
Robert Lukins, when we asked him 'why Nebraska?' confessed to having developed a fascination for the place. That has now manifested within his latest novel, LOVELAND...
Two women stand in the shallows, a man dead at their feet, while around them buildings burn. Amid the ruins of a fire-ravaged amusement park and destroyed waterfront dwellings, one boarded-up building still stands. May has come from Australia to Loveland, Nebraska, to claim the house on the poisoned lake as part of her grandmother's will. Escaping the control of her husband, will she find refuge or danger?
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK - Kate Miles is exhausted. She's a month off having her second child, and there's one more week before she goes on maternity leave from the northern NSW police station where she is the detective sergeant. A violent hold-up to solve is the last thing she wants, but when she is also expected to fob off the grieving mother of a football hero who drowned in an unfortunate and avoidable accident, she is at the end of her tether. But as the mother shares her doubts and suspicions about her daughter-in-law, Kate starts to wonder if it was as simple as an accident
Layered with her investigations, are the memories of the footballer's wife, which gradually reveal the complications of the case. A taut mystery, with believable characters struggling with various issues and attitudes, and dilemmas that lead to heart-breaking consequences for those involved. Lindy Jones
The Judge's List
John Grisham's latest breathtaking...
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$22.99
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Murder on a Winter's Night
Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas...
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$19.99
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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.
Denizen
Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize...
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$32.99
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Dark Music
The gripping new thriller from the...
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$32.99
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The Bullet that Missed
#3 Thursday Murder Club
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$32.99
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House of Gucci [Film Tie-in]
A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness,...
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$22.99
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The Escape of Jack the Ripper
The Full Truth About the Cover-up...
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$29.95
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Unexplained Deaths
How one woman changed homicide investigation...
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$22.99
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Great Australian Mysteries
Spine-tingling tales of disappearances,...
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$29.99
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The Killer Prince?
The Chilling Special Operation to...
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$24.99
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession and...
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$29.99
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The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told
Tales of Murder and Mayhem Ripped...
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$34.99
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The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer
Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji...
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$29.99
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A Midsummer Night's Fudge
#9 Candy Coated
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$15.99
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In The Company Of Witches
#1 Evenfall Witches
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$17.99
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