Barry Maitland

Barry Maitland (born 1941 in Scotland) is an Australian author of crime fiction. After studying architecture at Cambridge, Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a professor of architecture at the University of Newcastle. He retired in 2000 and took up writing full-time.

Novels Brock and Kolla Maitland has written a series of crime novels known as the Brock and Kolla novels, focussing on Scotland Yard detectives, DCI David Brock and DS Katherine Kolla : The Marx Sisters (1994) The Malcontenta (1995) All My Enemies (1996) The Chalon Heads (1999) Silvermeadow (2000) Babel (2002) The Verge Practice (2003) No Trace (2004) Spider Trap (2006) Dark Mirror (2009) Chelsea Mansions (2011) The Raven's Eye (2013) The Promised Land (2019) The Russian Wife (2021)

Harry Belltree trilogy In September, 2014 Maitland published the first of the Harry Belltree trilogy.

Ash Island (2015) Slaughter Park (2016)

Others Bright Air (2008)

Awards

Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, "Best Novel" 1996, joint winner for The Malcontenta 2000, shortlisted for Chalon Heads and Silvermeadow 2003, shortlisted for Babel 2005, shortlisted for No Trace 2007, shortlisted for Spider Trap 2009, shortlisted for Bright Air