The Marx Sisters

By Barry Maitland,

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This first book in the Brock and Kolla Mystery series was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Award for best first mystery and met with wide acclaim. It introduced the team of Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, with Kathy a neophyte to Scotland…

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This is the first of the 14-book Brock and Kolla police procedural series. The truth is that I read the fourteenth first and immediately went back and read this one and then the rest of the first thirteen.

Brock is an experienced old London police detective, and Kathy Kolla a very intelligent up-and-coming one. What I love about this series is—everything! It stands firmly on all three legs of a great story: character, plot, and writing.It has what I love in a police procedural: a well developed police team, complicated cases to solve, and in-depth characters in the cases—in…

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