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Backlash
Sally Spencer
The fourth book in the acclaimed new series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski
DCI Monika Paniatowski has a bitter personal history with Chief Superintendent Kershaw, but that is not the only reason she doesn't want the investigation into the sudden disappearance of his wife, Elaine, landing on her desk. A young prostitute, Grace Meade, has also disappeared, and yet all resources are being channelled into Elaine's case alone. Monika determines to spend time finding Grace, but when a heavily mutilated body is discovered on the moors, it begins to look as if she has made the wrong decision . . .
UK edition
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Publication Date: 26 May 2011
ISBN: 9780727880550
Price: £19.99
Dimensions: 141 x 222
Extent: 224 pages
US edition
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Publication Date: 1 Sep 2011
ISBN: 9780727880550
Price: $28.95
Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5
Extent: 224 pages
Booklist Starred Review
Lambs To The Slaughter
A small mining village is rocked by a shocking murder in the latest
Monika Paniatowski mystery . . .
Tensions are running high in the small mining village of Bellingsworth. There has been a call for further strikes, and retired miner Len Hopkins, who was known to be against a new strike, is murdered. Detective Inspector Monika Paniatowski learns that Len had been threatened the night before he died by another old miner. Was he killed due to the stand he took against further strikes? Or are there more sinister forces at work? Paniatowski investigates, but finds that she has problems much closer to home . . .
Fatal Quest
After the dramatic events in Dying Fall, Woodend reminisces on his long career in a brand new story...
'You should have worked out by now that nobody wants this case solved!' These words, delivered by Eddie, a Liverpool thug brought down to London especially to put the frighteners on him, send a shiver down newly-promoted DS Charlie Woodend's spine. Because Eddie is right. Nobody does seem interested in bringing the killer of sixteen-year-old Pearl Jones to justice. Not DCI Bentley, Woodend's immediate boss. Not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard. Not even the dead girl's mother herself.But Woodend cares. Working alone - sifting through the rubble of bombed-out post-war London and building up a picture of a life cut short - he is assailed by a growing anger and a deepening sorrow. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career - and perhaps even his own life - on the line.
Blackstone and the Great War
The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery . . .
France, World War One. Inspector Blackstone thought he was done with army, but when a general he served with requests he investigate the brutal murder of his grandson - a young British officer in the trenches - Blackstone feels he can't say no. Surrounded by young men over half his age, Blackstone must face the horror of modern warfare, and the prejudices of the officer class, if he is to gain justice for the murdered man.
Dying Fall
A DCI Charlie Woodend Mystery
A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. As Woodend attempts to solve a murder with no clues, he must also battle against a police authority blocking him at every turn. And worse is to follow, because Elizabeth Driver, Inspector Bob Rutter's lover, has almost finihsed the book which could destroy everything he has ever worked for.
Blackstone and the Wolf of Wall Street
The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery
August, 1900. William Holt, a reclusive millionaire businessman, has been kidnapped from his grand Coney Island home after the brutal murder of his two bodyguards. Soon, a huge ransom is demanded, and the victim's two sons are given just days to find the money. Inspector Sam Blackstone, now seconded to the New York Police Department, and his partner, Alex Meade, are charged with solving the case, but they'll need to keep their wits about them if they are to solve it in time . . .
The Ring of Death
The second in a new series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski
Nothing could have prepared DCI Monika Paniatowski for this. It's not that the man's throat has been cut, or that he is naked, that shocks her it's the way his corpse has been so carefully posed. Is the killer sending a message? If so, to who? Saddled with a colleague she doesn't trust, and watched by an old enemy, Monika realises that whatever the murderer's message is, he will not stop killing until she understands . . .
The Dead Hand of History
The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend's protégé, DCI Monika Paniatowski
It will be no easy task to fill DCI Charlie Woodend's shoes, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself, but, given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them. Yet, with the discovery of a severed hand, time is the one thing she does not have. When her colleagues prove untrustworthy, the urge to call Woodend for help becomes almost irresistible . . .
Blackstone and the New World
The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery
July 1900. Sam Blackstone goes to New York to pick up a prisoner, but finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector O'Brien, who is famed for rooting out police corruption. Blackstone scours the city in search of the killer, but the more he searches, the more convinced he becomes that the police department doesn't really want the murder to be solved . . .
Echoes of The Dead
The third book in the new series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowsk
When a recently released prisoner claims in a deathbed confession that he is innocent of the rape and murder of a young girl for which he was convicted twenty-two years earlier, DCI Monika Paniatowski is tasked to lead an unofficial investigation into his claims. At first she is reluctant, but when she learns that her old mentor Charlie Woodend was the lead detective in the case, she knows she must do everything she can to protect his reputation . . .
Kirkus Reviews - "The World's toughest book critics (TM)" selected Echoes of the Dead as one of the best twelve mystery titles of 2011.