Brock & Kolla (4 books in series)
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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-...
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review 1: Creepy. Poison kind of freaks me out a little. Lots of stuff about libraries. I'm wondering if it really is this easy to look at the borrowing records of people in UK libraries? Cuz--and this is key--this book would NEVER work in the US because we don't keep a list of what people...
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review 1: This is one of my favourite books from Barry Maitland; I have read it possibly 5 times now. I do love the general writing of Mr Maitland, especially his complete description of place (obviously owing to his architectural background), but in a way that does allow you to imagine th...
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review 1: I love Maitland's books for reasons I don't quite understand. They are a kind of comfort reading, and I also like how he brings the reader into a new world of stamp collecting, art creation, etc. This book did not bring me into a new world. I also am beginning to seriously wonder...