Barry Maitland was born in Scotland and in 1984 moved to Australia to head the architecture school at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. The Marx Sisters, the first in his Brock and Kolla crime series, was published in 1994. Barry now writes full time, and his books are read throughout the English-speaking world and in translation in a number of other countries. He lives in the Hunter Valley.

Read an interview with Barry Maitland in the Newcastle Herald 

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