The Russian wife / Barry Maitland.

By: Maitland, Barry [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Maitland, Barry. Brock and Kolla novels ; 20.Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 314 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760879648Subject(s): Brock, David, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Kolla, Kathy, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction | Russians -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Arts -- Forgeries -- Fiction | Fraud -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: When the Russian wife of the owner of one of the most valuable private collections of modern art in the UK is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock is drawn into a high-stakes world very different to his own. From the dealers and galleries in London's West End, his investigations take him to Hanover, Miami and New York on the trail of international forgery and fraud. At the same time, his old colleague Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla, who now leads one of the Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation teams, finds herself at the wrong end of a corruption charge. With her whole career in the balance, she will do almost anything to clear her name.
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"Fraud, forgery and murder in the high-stakes world of fine art" -- Cover.

When the Russian wife of the owner of one of the most valuable private collections of modern art in the UK is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock is drawn into a high-stakes world very different to his own. From the dealers and galleries in London's West End, his investigations take him to Hanover, Miami and New York on the trail of international forgery and fraud. At the same time, his old colleague Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla, who now leads one of the Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation teams, finds herself at the wrong end of a corruption charge. With her whole career in the balance, she will do almost anything to clear her name.

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