The jaw-dropping finale to the Belltree Trilogy, Slaughter Park is Australian hard-boiled crime fiction at its best.
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.
'Once again, Maitland has thrown in everything you would want from an Australian crime novel, particularly one set in Sydney: greedy developers, corrupt police, compromised media, shonky politicians, bikies, illegal dog fighting and drugs. But also, in the ongoing mystery, issues of Aboriginal identity, and in particular the stolen generation also get a look in. And Harry Belltree is the perfect guide to this world.' Pile by the Bed 'This is a ripper of a book...If you like crime fiction, then this is right up your mean street.' Weekly Times 'At last, the third instalment of Barry Maitland's Belltree trilogy, Slaughter Park. It's an impressive conclusion to an epic tale...Taken as a whole, these three crime novels constitute an extended commentary on some of the more pressing moral issues facing Australia. These include dealing with a reprehensible past and the ongoing impact of the stolen generation, as well as the obligation to defend a fragile environment from commercial exploitation.' Age
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