Ik weet niet, of gij van nabij bekend zijt
geweest met de oude Juffrouw Stauffacher,
die nu ruim twaalf jaren geleden in den
ouderdom van ongeveer drieëntachtig
jaren hier ter stede ontslapen is: zoo niet,
acht ik zulks uiterst jammer voor iemand
als gij, die een liefhebber zijt van
onderzoek te doen naar min bekende
bijzonderheden, het leven, het karakter, of
de lotgevallen betreffende van vermaarde
personen; want zij was een levend
repertorium van dergelijke aardigheden.
Ofschoon zelve, voor zooverre mij bewust
is, nooit eenige buitengewone avonturen
hebbende gehad, was zij, door de
omstandigheden van haar levensloop, in
betrekking geweest met een groot aantal
van die personaadjes, welke zich in de
vorige eeuw in verschillende opzichten
vermaardheid hebben verworven: velen
hunner had zij zelfs van nabij gekend.

Murder, fundamentalism, intrigue - and that's just the start of Babel, Maitland's gripping sixth Brock and Kolla mystery.

Professor Springer, one of Britain's leading philosophers, is brutally murdered on the steps of a London university. He was well-known for his stand against fundamentalism, but was that reason enough to kill him? Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla start looking for answers in London's Arab communities, but perhaps Springer's enemy can be found closer to home. As suspicions fall on the factions within the university, Springer's colleague, the Professor of Genetics, becomes involved. Is he as dangerous and unethical as he seems?

Brock and Kolla must work closer than ever before, sifting through the clues to find the real killer before further violence erupts.

'Maitland gets better and better, and Brock and Kolla are in impressive team who deserve to become household names.' - Publishing News

'Maitland is a...

The fourth Murray Whelan adventure.

Murray is in serious trouble. With a disastrous election result looming, his days as a political minder seem numbered. But when his boss Angelo Agnelli picks a fight with the trucking industry and Murray finds himself on the receiving end of a fist at a city nightclub, his employment prospects are the least of his problems.

And that's before he finds himself in the back of a truck at the fruit and vegetable market at five in the morning, sampling Heather Maitland's melons. With a runaway son on his hands, the police at his heels and a gun buried in the backyard, Murray faces his toughest test yet.

'Another triumph for Maloney, who is one of our best and most consistently original crime writers. Highly recommended.' Canberra Times

Nina thinks she's escaping a nightmare the night she runs away from home and her mother's latest boy-toy, who preferred seventeen-year-old girls to forty-year-old drunks. But the nightmare has only begun.