The Malcontenta

Writing in The Canberra Times Peter Bowler noted: "Professor Maitland's writing has all the special strengths that one would expect in an architect: structural soundness, a feeling for the shape and romance of his mise en scene, and, as a bonus for the reader, an element of interesting architectural instruction. More surprisingly, it has none of the classic weaknesses of the profession. He gets on with the job. "^[2]

• Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner^[3]

After its initial publication in the uk in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton,^[4] the novel was reprinted as follows:

• Penguin, UK 1996^[1]
• Arcade, USA, 2000^[5]
• Orion, UK 2000^[1]
• Penguin, USA 2001^[1]

The novel has been translated into German (Ein Hauch von Angst, 1995), French (La malcontenta, 2000) and Italian (Malcontenta, 2002).^[1]

"Dedication: For Clare and Alex/With my very special thanks to Margaret, and to those people who have helped bring Brock and Cathy [sic] to print, in particular Kate Jones and Jill Hickson."

• This is the second novel in the author's Brock and Kolla series.^[1]
• The title of this novel as published in the U.S. is The Malcontenta: A Kathy and Brock Mystery

• "Australian Crime Fiction database"
• "Italian Mysteries"

• 1995 in Australian literature