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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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With the detective duos outnumbering the criminals these days, it's an inventive author who can inaugurate something fresh in this department. Maitland has done just that in books such as The Marx Sisters with his creation of the rumpled but brilliant Inspector Brock and his coolly efficient colleague Kathy Kolla. Silvermeadow is a massive new shopping complex, all glittering surfaces and high-tech surveillance. Brock and Kolla are called in when several disappearances take place and before long the first body is found. Is Brock dealing with some kind of insurance shakedown, or something more complex and dangerous? As Brock and Kolla cut deeper into the heart of the mystery, violent death is only one of the ingredients in a baffling investigation. Maitland's duo is as authoritatively characterized as ever, while the cogency and dash of his plotting are consolidated from book to book. (Kirkus UK)
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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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With the detective duos outnumbering the criminals these days, it's an inventive author who can inaugurate something fresh in this department. Maitland has done just that in books such as The Marx Sisters with his creation of the rumpled but brilliant Inspector Brock and his coolly efficient colleague Kathy Kolla. Silvermeadow is a massive new shopping complex, all glittering surfaces and high-tech surveillance. Brock and Kolla are called in when several disappearances take place and before long the first body is found. Is Brock dealing with some kind of insurance shakedown, or something more complex and dangerous? As Brock and Kolla cut deeper into the heart of the mystery, violent death is only one of the ingredients in a baffling investigation. Maitland's duo is as authoritatively characterized as ever, while the cogency and dash of his plotting are consolidated from book to book. (Kirkus UK)
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