Barry Maitland Books in Order

In a shabby London lane, an elderly woman linked to Karl Marx is found murdered. On her first big case, Kathy Kolla teams with David Brock and uncovers old politics, property pressure, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Kathy Kolla suspects a death at an exclusive country clinic was staged as suicide. Taken off the case, she secretly pulls Brock in, and their inquiry exposes corruption, money, and violence behind the spa's polished front.

On the eve of joining Serious Crime, Kathy is called to a grotesque murder in quiet suburbia. Her best lead points to an amateur theatre group, and the case soon tangles with hidden motives and Kathy's own past.

A former gangster asks Brock to find his missing young wife, but the case quickly turns on Brock himself. Kathy must untangle kidnapping, revenge, police corruption, and a trail of rare stamps and expert forgers.

A body in a mega-mall compactor is only the start. Brock and Kathy probe deaths, robberies, and hidden lives inside Silvermeadow, a gleaming shopping complex built to keep its darker secrets out of sight.

A famous philosopher is murdered on university steps, and Brock and Kathy enter a world of campus feuds and ideological battles. Their hunt moves through London's academic and Arab communities, where ideas and private grudges turn dangerous.

After his young wife is killed, celebrated architect Charles Verge vanishes. Months later Brock and Kathy reopen the case, chasing rumours across London and Barcelona as they try to work out whether Verge is fugitive, victim, or both.

When six-year-old Tracey Rudd disappears, Brock and Kathy race against time through an artists' enclave in London. The girl's family is already scarred by suicide and blame, and every lead seems tangled with performance, ego, and grief.

Skeletons found in South London wasteland pull Brock and Kathy back to the Brixton riots. As past violence collides with present-day deception, they face an old enemy and a case rooted deep in the West Indian community.

Two climbers fall to their deaths in New Zealand, reviving doubts about Luce's earlier fatal accident. Josh and Anna follow the mystery from Sydney to Lord Howe Island, where landscape, friendship, and buried secrets become dangerously tangled.

A woman collapses and dies in the London Library, and Kathy feels an unsettling pull toward the victim's past. What looks like a quiet death opens into Victorian research, arsenic, and the threat of a serial poisoner.

Two American tourists are stalked at the Chelsea Flower Show, and Brock and Kathy are drawn into London's oligarch world. Behind one grand Victorian block sit money, exile, old loyalties, and murder.

A woman dies aboard a Thames houseboat, and everyone is ready to call it an accident except Kathy Kolla. As she and Brock push deeper, they run into police politics, new technology, and a case that refuses to stay simple.

Sydney homicide detective Harry Belltree is juggling a siege shooting, a public suicide, and a street stabbing when the dead man turns out to be family. With reporter Kelly Pool asking sharp questions, separate crimes begin to look connected.

After nearly being killed by a corrupt colleague, Harry is shipped off to Newcastle for a quieter post. Instead he finds a body on Ash Island and fresh clues to the crash that killed his parents and blinded his wife.

Harry Belltree has already lost his job, his marriage, and almost everything else when his estranged wife vanishes. As body parts surface in a suburban park and police look the wrong way, Harry has to find her alone.

Newly promoted Kathy Kolla investigates brutal murders on Hampstead Heath and arrests an unlikely suspect, a struggling publisher. Retired Brock is pulled in from the other side, and a lost manuscript may hold the key to the case.

When the Russian wife of a major art collector is found dead, Brock enters the expensive, slippery world of galleries, forgery, and fraud. At the same time, Kathy Kolla is fighting a corruption charge that could end her career.