Full name: Babel: A Brock and Kolla Mystery

Author: Barry Maitland Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781611458763 1611458765

In Babel, Kathy Kolla and David Brock, Scotland Yard's brilliant and unconventional crime-solving team, take on an unsettling new mystery that touches many sensitive issues: Arab fundamentalism, genetic engineering, and murder.Following her ordeal in the stakeout at the Silvermeadow supermall, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla is on leave, so haunted by past events that she is tempted to quit the force for good. Hearing about this puzzling new case makes her realize that nothing can keep her out of the game for too long. Professor Max Springer, a distinguished if controversial academic, has been brutally murdered on the steps of a London university. Springer was known for his stand against Islamic extremism, but was that motive enough to kill him?While Kolla and Brock start looking for answers in London's Arab community, rivalries within the university point in another direction, and Springer's colleague, a professor of medical genetics, becomes involved. Is he as troubling a figure as he seems? Meanwhile, why would somebody leak information about this critical investigation to the media, risking an explosion in the streets? In this taut and satisfying mystery, Barry Maitland proves once again that he is one of the masters of police procedural writing today. This book is part of the "Brock & Kolla" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The Raven's Eye" First published in 2013 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Chelsea Mansions" First published in 2011 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Spider Trap" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "No Trace" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Verge Practice" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Silvermeadow" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Chalon Heads" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "All My Enemies" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Malcontenta" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Marx Sisters" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: The Verge Practice by Barry Maitland Chelsea Mansions by Barry Maitland All My Enemies by Barry Maitland Silvermeadow by Barry Maitland Spider Trap by Barry Maitland Our Lady of Pain by Elena Forbes The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons A Dark and Twisted Tide by S. J. Bolton The Chalon Heads by Barry Maitland Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante Blitz by Ken Bruen No Trace by Barry Maitland The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey Circle of the Dead by David Lawrence One Under by Graham Hurley The Raven's Eye by Barry Maitland The Marx Sisters by Barry Maitland The Malcontenta by Barry Maitland The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine