by NRB | 31 Jan 2023 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The fourteenth instalment of Barry Maitland’s groundbreaking Brock and Kolla crime series is also the last. Scottish-born, English-raised and, since 1984, Australian-based, Barry Maitland published the first Brock and Kolla novel, The Marx Sisters, in 1994. On his...
by NRB | 5 Nov 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Garry Disher introduces a new character and Barry Maitland continues his successful Brock and Kolla series. Bitter Wash Road is the latest police procedural from Garry Disher. Introducing a new protagonist, and set in the isolated South Australian wheatbelt, this is a...
by NRB | 25 Oct 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
We set off at midday to catch a 1.15 train north after lunch at Central Station. We’d arranged for a daughter to feed the cat. The destination was Maitland in the Hunter Valley where I was to be on a panel with crime writers Barry Maitland and Jaye Ford at the city...