
Barry Maitland
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.