Barry Maitland, Author . Arcade $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-55970-570-7
In this riveting, if flawed, British police procedural, Maitland (The Malcontenta) serves up a plot so deviously complicated it's sometimes hard to follow. Scotland Yard's Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Chief Inspector Brock investigate...
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Barry Maitland, Author . Arcade $23.95 (358p) ISBN 978-1-55970-614-8
Better than The Chalon Heads
(2001) and almost as good as The Malcontenta
(2000), Maitland's latest mystery to feature DCI David Brock and Det. Sgt. Kathy Kolla presents a complex and absorbing case focused on Silvermeadow, an enormous shopping
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Barry Maitland, Author . Arcade $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55970-668-1
Healed in body if not in spirit after the trauma of her last case (2002's Silvermeadow), Det. Sergeant Kathy Kolla is thinking of quitting Scotland Yard when murder intervenes in Maitland's assured fifth entry in this popular series. The...
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Barry Maitland, Author . Arcade $25 (314p) ISBN 978-1-55970-713-8
It's hard to call Det. Sgt. Kathy Kolla and Chief Insp. Brock a team, since they work independently and don't often communicate, yet their sleuthing is smooth and efficient as they hunt down the killer of a prominent architect's wife in...
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Barry Maitland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-35892-1
In Maitland's gripping new police procedural to feature DCI David Brock and Det. Sgt. Kathy Kolla (after 2004's The Verge Practice
), something evil afflicts a group of artists and assorted hangers-on who live in London's Northcote...
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Barry Maitland, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-312-36908-8
This gripping and complex ninth installment of Maitland’s Brock and Kolla series (after 2006’s No Trace
) ties past and present in London’s West Indian community. After the bodies of two young girls are found in South London, both...
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Barry Maitland, Author . Minotaur $13.99 (298p) ISBN 978-0-312-38400-5
First published in the U.K. in 1996, the engrossing third entry in Maitland's series to feature David Brock and Kathy Kolla (Spider Trap
, etc.) is at last available in the U.S. The day before Kathy begins her new job in Scotland Yard's...
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Barry Maitland, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (329p) ISBN 978-0-312-38399-2
When Ph.D. student Marion Summers collapses and dies in the London Library in the excellent ninth entry in Maitland's series featuring Kathy Kolla, newly promoted to detective inspector, and Det. Chief Insp. David Brock (Spider Trap
, etc.),...
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Barry Maitland, Author Arcade Publishing $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-55970-527-1
The Malcontenta, an 18th-century mansion near Rochester in Kent, forms the backdrop for another superior mystery from Creasy Award nominee Maitland (The Marx Sisters). Det. Sergeant Kathy Kolla goes to Stanhope Naturopathic Clinic, the spa that now...
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Barry Maitland, Author Arcade Publishing $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55970-474-8
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of Karl Marx's great-granddaughters (via an illegitimate son) and the theft of the unpublished manuscript of a fourth volume of Das Kapital, in this engrossing mystery from an Australian writer...
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Barry Maitland. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-60066-2
Near the outset of Maitland’s overwrought 11th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. David Brock and Det. Insp. Kathy Kolla (after 2009’s The Dark Mirror), an unknown but exceptionally strong assailant throws 70-year-old American widow Nancy Haynes,...
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Barry Maitland. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-02896-9
In Maitland’s intricate 12th procedural starring Det. Chief Insp. David Brock and Det. Insp. Kathy Kolla (after 2011’s Chelsea Mansions), a young woman’s apparently accidental death in London’s Paddington district proves more complicated than it...
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Barry Maitland. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-07214-6
This nail-biting first in a trilogy from Ned Kelley Award–finalist Maitland (Raven’s Eye and 11 other Brock and Kolla mysteries) introduces Harry Belltree, a Sydney, Australia, homicide detective, who’s obsessed with the accident that killed his...
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Barry Maitland. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-11320-7
The gripping second installment of Maitland’s Belltree trilogy (after 2015’s Crucifixion Creek) finds Det. Sgt. Harry Belltree and his pregnant wife, Jenny, exiled from Sydney to Newcastle, Australia. As Harry probes into the hit-and-run that killed
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