Silvermeadow: 5 (Brock & Kolla Mystery) - Softcover

Maitland, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752842919 ISBN 13: 9780752842912

Publisher: Orion, 2001

Synopsis

When DCI Brock and DS Kathy Kolla follow up the sighting of a vicious bank robber they discover that another major investigation is underway at the Silvermeadow mall. A teenage girl has disappeared and Brock and Kolla agree to work with the Essex police on both cases. Then the body of the missing girl is discovered, having apparently been crushed in one of the rubbish compactors in Silvermeadow¿s vast basement...
Kathy and Brock meet the different groups of people who inhabit the place: somewhere among them is not only a gang planning a violent robbery, but also a serial killer, stalking young women in the mall ¿ and others have to die before Kathy and Brock finally trace the clues to an unexpected source.

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Review:

Barry Maitland's cast of hard-working, bad-tempered cops, and in particular Brock, the wise older man, and Kolla, the smart young woman, are always a reliable team; Silvermeadow puts them on display at their best. Brock has unfinished business with North, a ruthless bank robber, whom someone spots in Silvermeadow, a vast shopping mall; Brock and Kolla move in on a murder hunt partly to have a pretext to hang around and wait for North to make his move. Someone killed a shop assistant and stuffed her body into a garbage compactor--and perhaps she was not the first, but rather just the first of the rootless young women who have disappeared to be found after her death ... Maitland has always been good at locations that are both crime scenes and countries of the mind and here we get not just the shining public face of Silvermeadow, but its access tunnels and guilty secrets. We also get a sense of what it is to run a place like that; the beleaguered director of the mall, her security chief, the brilliant cripple in the computer surveillance room--these are solid characters about whom we come to care as much as we do for the detectives we already know. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Superb . . . Maitland just keeps getting better and better."

"Barry Maitland is a master of mysteries."

"Silvermeadow is first-rate . . . compelling . . . fascinating."

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0752842919
• ISBN 13: 9780752842912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320