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Chelsea Mansions (2011)

by Barry Maitland(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

174237638X (ISBN13: 9781742376387)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Allen & Unwin

series

Brock & Kolla

review 1: This is a new series to me whose main characters are the DCI (Brock) and DI (Kolla) of the Serious Crimes Unit of Scotland Yard. In this book, an elderly American tourist is killed by being thrown under a bus and there is no apparent reason for this murder. And then a Russian ex-pat millionaire who lives next door to the hotel in which the tourist was staying, is also killed. Is there a connection between the two slayings? Brock and Kolla along with their team and a visiting Canadian professor with secrets of his own, are on the case. The story starts out well but becomes extremely complicated and somewhat surreal as it progresses..........and in the end, you are still confused as to exactly who killed who and for what reason. There is a lot going on here but I liked it we... morell enough to read another of this author's books.
review 2: When a harmless American tourist is brutally murdered leaving the Chelsea Flower Show, it seems like a random crime. But David Brock and his squad see the signs of planning in the killer's escape. Then a second murder takes place right next to the hotel where the first victim was staying. There must be some connection between the crimes, but with Brock in a coma in the hospital, and most of the team quarantined, it's up to his Detective Inspector Kathy Kolla to take over the case. There's also a mysterious, possibly sinister Canadian academic who seems to be following the murders--or is it Kathy he's interested in? Another winner from Maitland. less

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