Barry Maitland Books in Order
Barry Maitland has written 18 books, published between 1994 and 2021. The first book is The Marx Sisters (1994) and the newest is The Russian Wife (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 18
- Published
- 1994–2021
- Confirmed
- 18 of 18 titles
- Pages on record
- 5,166 in 16 of 18 books
- Reading time
- 86–129 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 5,166 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 16 of 18 titles with a page count on record.
Barry Maitland writes police procedurals around the detectives David Brock and Kathy Kolla. Maitland, born in Scotland in 1941, studied architecture at Cambridge, practised and taught in Britain, then became a professor of architecture at the University of Newcastle in Australia before turning to writing full-time in 2000. 18 catalogued books run from The Marx Sisters (1994) to The Russian Wife (2021), with the Belltree Trilogy and several standalone novels beside the Brock and Kolla books.
How many Barry Maitland books are there?
Barry Maitland has 18 books, released between 1994 and 2021. They include 2 separate series.
Barry Maitland Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 18 Barry Maitland books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119943143/4
- 219953483/4
- 31996–3/4
- 419983263/4
- 520003463/4
- 620022803/4
- 720033133/4
- 820043203/4
- 920063303/4
- 1020082953/4
- 1120093293/4
- 122011–3/4
- 1320133253/4
- 1420143203/4
- 1520153123/4
- 1620173683/4
- 1720193203/4
- 1820213203/4
Barry Maitland characters in order
The character linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Brock and Kolla books in order 14 books
Barry Maitland books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Brock and Kolla/Kathy and Brock in order
14 books- 1. The Marx Sisters
- 2. The Malcontenta
- 3. All My Enemies
- 4. The Chalon Heads
- 5. Silvermeadow
- 6. Babel
- 7. The Verge Practice
- 8. No Trace
- 9. Spider Trap
- 10. Dark Mirror
- 11. Chelsea Mansions
- 12. The Raven's Eye
- and 2 more in the table above
Belltree Trilogy in order
3 booksBarry Maitland Standalone Novels
1 book1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Barry Maitland books in order?
You only need to read Barry Maitland books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Barry Maitland
Start with The Marx Sisters (1994), the first Brock and Kolla book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.
What is the newest Barry Maitland book?
The Russian Wife (2021) is the newest Barry Maitland book released so far.
Is there a new Barry Maitland book coming?
No next Barry Maitland book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Barry Maitland at a glance
- Paused
- No new Barry Maitland title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Barry Maitland books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 5,166 pages across the 16 of 18 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Barry Maitland books, 7 of 18, were published in the 2000s.
What the Barry Maitland books are about
All 18 Barry Maitland books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: police is tagged on 11 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Police 11 of 18 books
- Kathy Kolla (Fictitious character) 10 of 18 books
- David Brock (Fictitious character) 8 of 18 books
- Mystery & detective, police procedural 6 of 18 books
- Policewomen 6 of 18 books
- Brock, david (fictitious character) 4 of 18 books
- Investigation 4 of 18 books
- Murder 4 of 18 books
- Mystery & detective 4 of 18 books
- Crime 3 of 18 books