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Barry Maitland

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Barry Maitland is the author of the acclaimed Brock and Kolla series of crime mystery novels set in London, where Barry grew up after his family moved there from Paisley in Scotland where he was born. He studied architecture at Cambridge University, and went on to work as an architect in the UK, then took a PhD in urban design at the University of Sheffield, where he also taught and wrote a number of books on architecture and urban design. In 1984 he moved to Australia to head the architecture school at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, and held that position until 2000.

The books have been described as whydunits as much as whodunits, concerned with the devious histories and motivations of their characters. Barry's background in architecture drew him to the structured character of the mystery novel, and his books are notable for their ingenious plots as well as for their atmospheric settings, each in a different intriguing corner of London.

Barry Maitland now writes fiction full time, and lives in the Hunter Valley.

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Available Books by Barry Maitland

	Chelsea Mansions Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781742376387 RRP: $24.99 When Nancy Haynes, an elderly American tourist, is brutally murdered in a seemingly senseless attack after visiting the Chelsea Flower Show, DI Kathy Kolla suspects there is more to the case than first appears. When another occupant of the palatial Chelsea Mansions is murdered hot on the heels of the first-but this time a Russian oligarch-everybody wants to get involved. Is it a Litvinenko-styl...
	Dark Mirror Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781742374147 RRP: $19.99 Barry Maitland, nominated by The Australian as one of the top five crime writers in the world, returns with a vengeance in Dark Mirror. When Marion Summers - red-haired, beautiful and mysterious - collapses and dies in the rarefied surrounds of the London Library, DI Kathy Kolla and DCI David Brock are sent to head the investigation. Kathy finds a reluctant kinship with the feisty Marion, who had...
	Dark Mirror Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741757415 RRP: $32.99 When the red-haired, beautiful and mysterious, Marion Summers dies in horrendous circumstances in the London Library, Brock and Kolla are brought in to investigate, in the new mystery from Australia's master of crime. Barry Maitland, nominated by The Australian as one of the top five crime writers in the world, returns with a vengeance in Dark Mirror. When Marion Summers - red-haired, beauti...
	Bright Air Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741757637 RRP: $22.99 She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, clattering down the cliff to the sea, and now they knew where she was. On a cliff-face in New Zealand, two men fall to their deaths carrying the secret of a horrify...
	Babel Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741755350 RRP: $19.95 Murder, fundamentalism, intrigue - and that's just the start of Babel, Maitland's gripping sixth Brock & Kolla mystery....
	The Verge Practice Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741755343 RRP: $19.95 From the backstreets of Barcelona to the sophisticated world of international architecture, Brock and Kolla follow the evidence in their seventh mystery....
	Bright Air Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741148176 RRP: $32.95 A fast-paced and nail-biting new stand-alone mystery set on a desolate island between Australia and New Zealand, from the master of crime writing, Barry Maitland. She stood panting on the narrow ledge, pressing herself back against the hard surface of the rock heard a voice, far below, calling her name. She tried to answer, but her throat was parched and no sound came. They had heard the stone, c...
	Spider Trap Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741751833 RRP: $19.99 Old skeletons, new deaths, crime families, torture and intimidation; David Brock and Kathy Kolla are challenged like never before. Skeletons are discovered in Cockpit Lane, a poor black area of inner south London, and DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch are called in to investigate. The discovery that the victims died on the day of the Brixton riots, o...
	The Chalon Heads Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741751765 RRP: $19.95 Brock and Kolla have been called to a shop dealing in rare stamps on the assumption they'll be handling a simple case of theft. But a man from Brock's past, Chinese East End ex-villain Sammy Starling, comes to him for help when Starling's vivacious young wife is kidnapped . . . When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers that his beautiful yo...
	No Trace Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741147773 RRP: $19.95 An edge-of-your-seat Brock and Kolla mystery set within a radical artists' community in London where three children have been abducted in a matter of weeks. Within an unconventional artists' neighbourhood in London, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla are embroiled in their most compelling case yet - three young children have been abducted in as many w...
	The Marx Sisters Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741751758 RRP: $19.95 When one of three elderly sisters, great-granddaughters of Karl Marx, is found dead in her Jerusalem Lane house, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock investigate. An atmospheric police procedural - the first in the acclaimed Brock and Kolla mysteries. Jerusalem Lane is a little piece of Dickensian London untouched by development, its inhabitants mainly refugees from ...
	Brock And Kolla 4: The Chalon Heads Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865082752 RRP: $19.95 When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers that his beautiful young wife is missing, he assumes old enemies in the police force are taking their revenge. Ten years ago Starling's evidence of police corruption put DI Marty Keller, an ambitious, clever young cop with everything to live for, behind bars. Now Keller is out. And getting even? When DCI...

	Chelsea Mansions Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780312600662 RRP: $33.95 Provided by publisher....
	Dark Mirror Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780312650827 RRP: $19.95 ...
	Dark Mirror Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780312383992 RRP: $32.95 Detective Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates the inexplicable arsenic poisoning of London student Marion Summers, who had moved three years prior without leaving a forwarding address and whose stepfather has an unsavory past....
	All My Enemies Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780312384005 RRP: $18.95 Published for the first time in the U.S., the story of Kathy Kolla's first case as a member of D.C.I. Brock's Scotland Yard team finds her investigating the murder of a young woman and pursuing an improbable lead that draws her into a local amateur drama group. By the Barry finalist author of Spider Trap. Original....
	Spider Trap Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780312385286 RRP: $18.95 Called in to investigate after human bones are discovered in a poor area of south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard discover that the victims had died at the time of the Brixton riots, more than two decades earlier, and follow a dangerous trail into the heart of London's nemesis, Spider Roach. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....
	No Trace Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780312376468 RRP: $19.95 When little Tracey Rudd, the young daughter of notorious artist Gabriel Rudd, is abducted from her home, the third such child to vanish under similar circumstances, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla races against time to find the girl's kidnapper, who may connected to the eccentric art community in the neighborhood. Reprint....
	Dark Mirror Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781410424136 RRP: $56.95 Beautiful and mysterious student Marion Summers goes into a seizure at the Reading Room of the London Library slips into a coma and dies shortly thereafter. The autopsy reveals the cause as acute arsenic poisoning - and there's no reason for Summers to have been exposed to this once-common now-rare poison. With the help of her superior DCI David Brock newly promoted DI Kathy Kolla of the Serio...
	The Chalon Heads Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781559705707 RRP: $32.95 Brock and Kathy are summoned to Cabot's, an honored stamp dealer, to investigate the kidnapping of the wife od Sammy Starling, an ex-crock from Brock's past, and the only clue to the crime lies in the unusual ransom notes, which are decorated with the valuable Chalon Head stamp of a young Queen Victoria, to whom the victim bears a striking resemblance....
	The Chalon Heads Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781934609545 RRP: $19.95 ...
	The Marx Sisters Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781934609316 RRP: $19.95 ...

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	Babel Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781559706681 Scotland Yard's Kathy Kolla and David Brock investigate the murder of Professor Max Springer, a controversial academic known for speaking out against Islamic extremism....
	Brock And Kolla 1: The Marx Sisters Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865082691 Jerusalem Lane is a little piece of Dickensian London untouched by development, its inhabitants mainly refugees from pre-war central Europe. But could elderly Meredith Winterbottom really have been killed for the politics of another age? As DS Kolla and DCI Brock delve into the lane's eccentric melting pot, past and present interlink in unexpected ways. What connects Mrs Rosenfeldt and Adam...
	Brock And Kolla 2: The Malcontenta Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780752827674 For Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, the chance to investigate the unnatural death of a physio at the exclusive Stanhope House Clinic seems the ideal opportunity to leave behind more mundane police duties. Especially when what at first seemed suicide or accidental death is clearly more complicated. A cover-up to shield the clinic's illustrious clients, or murder? So Kolla is not at all pleas...
	Brock And Kolla 3: All My Enemies Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780752827667 Kathy Kolla has arrived. The bold ideas of London's most gifted young detective have finally paid off and she's been appointed to the inner sanctum of thief-catching, New Scotland Yard. Despite warnings from her boss, Chief Inspector Brock, to keep her head down, her first case at the Yard seems destined to become her most notorious yet. A young woman is found viciously murdered in a le...
	Brock And Kolla 4: The Chalon Heads Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865080475 When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers that his beautiful young wife is missing, he assumes old enemies in the police force are taking their revenge. Ten years ago Starling's evidence of police corruption put DI Marty Keller, an ambitious, clever young cop with everything to live for, behind bars. Now Keller is out. And getting even? As inves...
	Brock And Kolla 5: Silvermeadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865082837 Silvermeadow is a "super shopping mall" that caters for a lifestyle experience. But the only experiences that DCI Brock and DS Kolla are investigating are the disappearance of a teenage girl and the reappearance of one of the most violent criminals Brock has come up against. Can they believe the rumour mill? Have there been other girls connected with Silvermeadow never heard from again?...
	Brock And Kolla 5: Silvermeadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865084862 Once you heard "Upper" north's voice, you never forgot it. And Pauline Lewins knew she never wanted to hear it again. But he was here, at Silvermeadow, at what had been her safe haven. Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard are called in to investigate the reappearance of one of the most violent criminals Brock had ever come across....
	Brock And Kolla 6: Babel Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741141481 Murder, fundamentalism, intrigue - and that's just the start of this gripping new mystery. Professor Springer, one of Britain's leading philosophers, is brutally murdered on the steps of a London university. The brilliant duo Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla return to solve the crime. Professor Springer was well-known for his stand against fundamen...
	Brock And Kolla 6: Babel Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865088396 Murder, fundamentalism, intrigue - and that's just the start of this gripping new mystery. Professor Springer, one of Britain's leading philosophers, is brutally murdered on the steps of a London university. The brilliant duo Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla return to solve the crime. Professor Springer was well-known for his stand against fundamen...
	Brock And Kolla 7: The Verge Practice Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741141412 From the backstreets of Barcelona to the sophisticated world of international architecture, this satisfying mystery cements Maitland his reputation as a writer of intriguing and thrilling crime. Following the murder of his young wife, Charles Verge, world famous architect and head of a very lucrative London practice, disappears without a trace. After four months of dead-end investigations, Chief...
	Brock And Kolla 7: The Verge Practice Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741142488 Brock and Kolla are sent to uncover the mysterious disappearance of a world-famous architect in this intriguing, intelligent thriller. Following the murder of his young wife, Charles Verge, world famous architect and head of a very lucrative London practice, disappears without a trace. After four months of dead-end investigations, Chief Detective Inspector Brock and his team are called in to ach...
	Brock And Kolla 8: No Trace Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741144703 An edge-of-your-seat Brock and Kolla mystery set within a radical artists' community in London where three children have been abducted in a matter of weeks . . . Within an unconventional artists' neighbourhood centred on Northcote Square in London, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla engage in their most compelling case yet. They need to find missing ...
	Silvermeadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741145410 Dark secrets are being kept hidden in the depths of Silvermeadow, the huge new shopping mall on the outskirts of London. Brock and Kolla investigate their most dangerous investigation yet. Silvermeadow wasn't innocent. From start to finish the centre was calculated and manipulative, dressed up to deceive. If it had been a suspect rather than a place, she would have said its manner was guilty...
	Silvermeadow Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741752656 An intriguingly developed, superbly plotted police procedural from award-winning crime writer Barry Maitland. Set in the brand-new mega-shopping mall Silvermeadow - more like a small city than a department store' - this continues the Scotland Yard partnership of Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock.. Once you heard bank robber and violent criminal 'Upp...
	Spider Trap Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780312369088 Called in to investigate after human bones are discovered in a poor area of south London, D.C.I. David Brock and D.S. Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard discover that the victims had died more than two decades earlier, and follow a dangerous trail in search of Brock's nemesis, Spider Roach....
	Spider Trap Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741148169 Old skeletons, new deaths, crime families, torture and intimidation; David Brock and Kathy Kolla are challenged like never before. Skeletons are discovered in Cockpit Lane, a poor black area of inner south London, and DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch are called in to investigate. The discovery that the victims died on the day of the Brixton riots, ...

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