The Mystery Bookshelf, where you can discover a world of mystery and suspense, is pleased to feature a new crime novel we recently received from the publisher.
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Chelsea Mansions by Barry Maitland
A Brock and Kolla Mystery (11th in series)
Minotaur Books (Trade Paperback)
Publication Date: October 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00694-3
About Chelsea Mansions (from the publisher): The annual Chelsea Flower Show is one of the tourist highlights of London. But this year, the event is tainted by the murder of an American tourist in a random act of violence. But when DCI David Brock's Serious Crime division of Scotland Yard investigates, they quickly discover that the killer somehow avoided having both his face and his escape captured on any of the many closed circuit cameras in the area. The conclusion is inescapable — what seemed a senseless, but random, event was in fact a carefully planned murder.
But how could the victim — a retired widow traveling with a long time family friend — be worth the trouble and expense of such an elaborate killing? When a very wealthy Russian oligarch is killed in the garden of his palatial estate not far from the hotel where the murdered tourist was staying, Brock and Kolla suspect that something more complicated is going on and that the two killings are somehow related. In a case that takes Brock and his team all the way to the States and back, secrets from a long forgotten past are the key to a string of bloody murders that are just beginning …Purchase Options for Chelsea Mansions:
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About the author: Barry Maitland's "Brock and Kolla" series of crime mystery novels are set in London, where Barry grew up after his family moved there from Paisley in Scotland where he was born. He studied architecture at Cambridge University, and went on to work as an architect in the UK, then took a PhD in urban design at the University of Sheffield, where he also taught and wrote a number of books on architecture and urban design. In 1984 he moved to Australia to head the architecture school at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, and held that position until 2000. Barry Maitland now writes fiction full time, and lives in the Hunter Valley. Learn more about the author and his work on his website, BarryMaitland.com.
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