(Holiday reading so my comments are a bit minimal)

Another excellent episode in this series. Silvermeadow is a huge shopping centre outside London (I guess the real life counterpart is Bluewater though the name had me thinking of Meadowhall all the way through) and Kathy Kolla and David Brock are trying to solve a murser at the same time as trying to apprehend an armed robber who has been spotted there.

The continuity with the first book in this series is lovely (this is the fifth) as are the developments in the main characters private lives.

My only niggle is that Maitland writes about Britain from Australia and has characters driving Opel cars when that brand is still sold in the UK under the Vauxhall name and though you do see the odd Opel around I think it’s far more likely that the character in question had a Vauxhall Astra. Minor but it kept dragging me from the story.