TY - BOOK AU - Maitland, Barry, TI - The Russian wife T2 - Brock and Kolla novels SN - 9781760879648 U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2021///. CY - N.S.W. : PB - Allen & Unwin, KW - Brock, David (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Kolla, Kathy (Fictitious character) KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Art KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Fiction. KW - Forgeries KW - Police corruption KW - Russians KW - Crimes against KW - Fraud KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - fast N1 - "Fraud, forgery and murder in the high-stakes world of fine art" -- Cover N2 - 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 ER -