• Silvermeadow

  • A Kathy and Brock Mystery, Book 5
  • By: Barry Maitland
  • Narrated by: Angele Masters
  • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (572 ratings)

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Silvermeadow

By: Barry Maitland
Narrated by: Angele Masters
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In this fourth book in the police procedural series by Barry Maitland, Scotland Yard's Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock investigate seemingly unrelated cases centered in the glittering Silvermeadow shopping mall. Fans of the series will enjoy narrator Angele Masters' superb characterizations - her Kathy has an expressive, frank voice, which contrasts well with Brock's more reserved, stoic manner of speaking.

Masters also keeps up the energy and pace of the story as the two detectives try to puzzle out the connection between an amphetamine-addicted criminal and a body found in the mall's trash compactor area. As he winds up the suspense, fans will be tempted into finishing the entire audiobook in one sitting.

Publisher's summary

When his longtime nemesis, the amphetamine-juiced killer known as "Upper" North, is spotted in England, Detective Chief Inspector Brock is on the trail. His manhunt centers on Silvermeadow, a huge and glittery new shopping mall on the outskirts of London, where North was seen. Lying in wait, he and Kathy Kolla take on a seemingly unrelated case as camouflage, that of a missing girl who had worked in the mall. But what to make of the rumor of other girls gone missing?

Coming up against dead ends, Kathy sets off to follow some leads of her own - and finds out that going solo can be very dangerous.

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  • L
  • 04-30-13

love this author - thank you for adding him

I am grateful to audible for responding to the request for Barry Maitland books. Thank you Audible!

I first learned of this mystery series when I was in the UK, from a fellow mystery lover who works in a bookstore. I wanted something with a good plot and with characters that are three dimensional, not just stereotypes - characters that one can come to care about. This series was recommended to me I have been hooked ever since!

If you like mysteries set in London and the surrounding areas, with characters that have a bit of complexity but are not too heady, and if you care about realistic dialogue and good suspense, you might enjoy this series. The books are sort of like Jacqueline Winspear (I can't think of who else to compare them too right now), but not set in the past and perhaps a bit less sentimental and more emphasis on twists and turns of the plot - I'd also say the characters Maitland writes are a bit more complex. Part of the interest in this series is the bond between Brock and Kolla.

The wonderful narration captures class accents without being caricatured.

I didn't give the book five stars because the theme of critiquing shopping malls was a bit heavy handed, and because this isn't "great literature," but it's such a pleasurable read and the plot and characters and narration kept me eager to listen more.

I hope others will find and enjoy these books and that perhaps we will get more of Brock and Kolla in the future....

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I'll think of this everytime I go in a mall

good. kept my attention. got kind of long with the addition of a secod plot line.
will probably read another by this author.

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great twists

the story has many twists and turns. you really didn't have any idea how it was going to end. the characters were many which made the story well worth listening to.

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A very enjoyable whodunnit

I am a whodunnit fan. I find murder mysteries an excellent distraction from the all too unavoidable woes of the real world. But after a while you run of books with plausible plots (plausible at least while reading it) and characters interesting enough for me to care if they get murdered or manage to solve somebody else’s murder. That’s why I’m so glad I’ve come across this book. It’s got all the ingredients of a good whodunnit. This was a free book with my membership but I am now looking to buy books in the rest of the series.

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Complex and thought provoking

I enjoyed this novel and the narrator did an excellent job. I will look for other works by Barry Maitland.

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Barry Maitland has a foul mouth. ☹️

Mr Maitland hasn't the brains to understand that his liberal use of obscenities and profanities totally ruins his story.
Ms Masters also gets only one star for reading such trash. ☹️

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  • 08-29-23

Very Engaging!

Really enjoyed this book. The narration was wonderful. Lots of twists and turns as the detectives try to pull all the pieces together. I look forward to reading more from this author.

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INCREDIBLE INSIGHT

Started slow and thought I was not going to like Mr. Maitlands writing very much. I kept putting it down and starting again after reading another novel. Finally, after getting past the first 20 pages, I couldn't stop listening, and I like this book enormously. I will now be reading the next book of Mr. Maitland with great expectations. His build-up
to the discovery of the solving of the mystery was excellent.

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Entertaining

Great narration. Story had lots of twists and turns. Kept me reading and guessing until the end. Left room for a sequel which I would definitely read

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What else can I say? Couldn’t have been an awesome book, but… meh…

I wasn’t certain how to grade this. It was a good story, fairly well told. Allot of characters tho. Most unlikeable. Including our heroin! She was very difficult to respect. By the end of the book, I figured her and all her knuckle dragging, stereotyped, fickle crew deserved whatever came to them.

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