Spider Trap

Spider Trap

by Barry Maitland (Author)

Synopsis

Skeletons are discovered in a wasteland behind Cockpit Lane, a poor largely black area of inner south London, and DCI David Brock and DS Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes Branch are called in to investigate. The discovery that the victims died during the Brixton riots, over twenty years before, lead Brock and Kolla on a dark and dangerous journey in which past and present come together in an intricate web of deception and intrigue as Brock encounters a formidable old antagonist, Spider Roach. In a desperate search to find a crucial piece of evidence, Brock and Kolla unwittingly set in train a series of events that erupt in a shocking, violent conclusion. Written with Maitland's characteristically vivid sense of character and place, Spider Trap is Maitland at his scrupulously plotted, complex and compelling best.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 369
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 25 Jun 2009

ISBN 10: 1906413371
ISBN 13: 9781906413378

Media Reviews
'Solid procedural suspense and a serious subtext concerning the nature of corruption make this new series stand out' - Time Out
Author Bio
Barry Maitland was born in Scotland and raised in London. He studied at Cambridge and moved to Australia to become Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle. He has since retired to pursue his writing. Maitland's The Marx Sisters was nominated for the John Creasey Award for Best First Novel and The Malcontenta won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. No Trace is his eighth Brock and Kolla mystery.