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Barry Maitland

Crucifixion Creek: The Belltree Trilogy 1 by Barry Maitland

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June-July 2015, no. 372
Viki Dun reviews 'Crucifixion Creek' by Barry Maitland

The first book in Barry Maitland’s projected Belltree Trilogy, Crucifixion Creek features veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, detective Harry Belltree. The eponymous Creek is a wasteland in south-western Sydney with a bloody history of settlement, including punitive expeditions against the local Aboriginal tribe; race-based riots that ended in the lyn ...

Silver Meadow by Barry Maitland & An Uncertain Death by Carolyn Morwood

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April 2000, no. 219
Sue Turnbull reviews 'Silver Meadow: A Kathy and Brock mystery' by Barry Maitland and 'An Uncertain Death' by Carolyn Morwood

Five pages from the end of Silver Meadow, the hair on the back of my neck stood up, an effect not only of the thrilling denouement, but also a genuine frisson of aesthetic delight at a perfectly judged conclusion. Silver Meadow is a book which deserves to be noticed, not only by devotees of the police procedural (it is at least as good as anything Rendell, James or Rankin have written) but also by anyone with an interest in narrative form, the politics of contemporary space and/or rampant consumerism. This is a ‘seriously’ good book about sex and shopping.

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