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A Monika Paniatowski British police procedural On the night the
Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the
idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years
on they would return to the same theatre and stage the same play.
But two decades later, old resentments have grown and new
jealousies have germinated, and it is a very different company that
returns to re-enact the Spanish Tragedy. The cast members all have
their axes to grind - and some have clear targets for those axes .
. . It is in this world - where normal rules and standards have no
meaning - that DCI Monika Paniatowski finds herself, once a tragedy
within the Tragedy has occurred. But how can she uncover the
killer's motive when everyone seemed to want the victim dead? And
how can she decide who is telling the truth - when all these people
lie for a living?
DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates the killing of an American
guest - and uncovers a link to a 50-year-old murder. When the body
of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred suite at the
Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced with one of
the most baffling cases of her career. The woman who called herself
Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the past two weeks,
having paid cash in advance. But who was she really - and what was
she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If Monika could
discover why the dead woman had come to Lancashire, she would be
one step closer to catching her killer. The investigation takes an
intriguing twist when Monika learns of a possible link to a
fifty-year-old murder - but the only person who could tell her why
it's relevant is lying in a coma.
The discovery of a body on a local allotment site re-opens an
unresolved cold case for Monika Paniatowski and her team. 'He was
going to have to terminate Monika, he decided. It was a pity, but
there it was.' The body has lain buried for years, and has no face
and no fingertips. Monika Paniatowski's team have no real leads,
but when they discuss the case at her hospital bedside - where she
lies paralysed - Monika begins to see possible links with a case
she closed four years earlier. Are the two cases connected? Did the
first murder make the second almost inevitable? She doesn't know,
but she does know that she is being watched by an old enemy who
will kill her if he decides there is ever any chance of her sharing
her thoughts and information with her team.
DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a
good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder? On the
day of her official retirement from the Force, DCI Monika
Paniatowski looks at the two men and one woman who are no longer
her team and thinks: Whatever the future holds, I will always be
proud of you. She raises a toast. And just like that, her career as
a homicide detective is over. Then, fifteen years later, Monika's
former sergeant, Kate Meadows, makes a terrible mistake. Monika
doesn't hesitate when Kate turns to her for help. She owes her, and
she can hardly let her old friend go down for a crime she didn't
commit. But as Monika gets deeper into the investigation, she's
forced to ask herself the unthinkable: is Kate really innocent, or
is she helping her old friend get away with murder? Packed with
twists that will make you gasp out loud, the fifteenth - and final
- DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery is a stunning conclusion to the
long-running series. If you haven't met Monika yet, you're in for a
treat.
Private investigator Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate a
murder that's left the police baffled, in this gripping historical
mystery set partly in 1970s Oxford and partly in war-torn 1940s
London. Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned
anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked
attack. Despite a large-scale police investigation, the identity of
the prime suspect was never uncovered . . . and neither was the
location of Grace's head. But Grace's daughter, the wealthy
academic Julia Pemberton, refuses to accept that the trail has run
cold. Determined to find out who killed her mother, she knows just
the woman for the job: private investigator Jennie Redhead. Who was
the woman caught on CCTV visiting Grace's isolated home on the day
of the murder? And why did she cut off her victim's head? Jennie's
search for answers takes her on a dark, disturbing journey into the
past, from the ancient tribal customs of Papua New Guinea, to
war-torn 1940s London - and to a dark tangle of secrets and scandal
that someone is desperate should never be revealed . . .
DCI Paniatowski's team suspect a murder is the result of ritual
killing, carried out by a secret society. But DCI Dixon treats it
as a mere domestic murder. So Meadows, Crane and Beresford risk
their careers to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, Monika knows killer
and that he is stalking her daughter. Yet she is in a coma, so what
can she do about it?
Feelings are running high in the small mining village of
Bellingsworth. There has been a call for further strikes from some
of the miners which has caused deep divisions amongst the
close-knit community. But things take a macabre turn for the worse
when retired miner Len Hopkins, who was known to be against a new
strike, is found murdered in his home. Detective Inspector Monika
Paniatowski quickly learns that Len had been threatened the night
before he died by another old miner in front of numerous witnesses
at the local Miners' Institute. Could he have been killed simply
due to the stand he took against further strikes? Or are there more
sinister forces at work? As Paniatowski and her team try to uncover
the truth, Monika soon finds that she has problems that lie much
closer to home .
Private investigator Jennie Redhead finds her loyalties divided
when she investigates the decades-old murder of a college student.
Oxford, 1974. In the cellars beneath St Luke's College, a sealed
medieval ventilation shaft is opened up to reveal human bones. Two
bodies, buried thirty years apart, but is there a connection ...
Desperate to protect the College's reputation - and finances - the
bursar, Charlie Swift, hires his old friend, private investigator
Jennie Redhead, to find out the identities of the two victims. But
as Jennie pieces the clues together, it becomes increasingly clear
that Charlie knows rather more about the murders than he's
admitted. As she uncovers a series of scandals stretching back more
than sixty years, Jennie is forced to question how well she really
knows her old friend Charlie Swift - and whether she can trust
him...
In the latest Chief Inspector Woodend historical mystery, the
policeman is landed with a difficult case . . . and a difficult new
female colleague. The investigation into the brutal murder of a
Blackpool policeman in the middle of the holiday season was never
going to easy, but the case itself is not Woodend's only problem.
There is trouble at home: his new boss, DS Ainsworth, is just
waiting for an opportunity to stick a knife in his back; his
invaluable assistant, Bob Rutter, had been replaced by a new
sergeant more intent on advancing her own career than helping him
-- and the Blackpool police themselves seem to think it might be
better if the killer were never found . . .
Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend will have to rely on his
observational gifts to have a ghost of chance in solving his latest
murder case. The night after the mysterious appearance of the
legendary Dark Lady on the road outside Westbury Park, a German
efficiency expert, Gerhard Schultz, is found battered to death in
the woods and Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is faced with his
most puzzling case yet. Why did Schultz seem so frightened when on
his colleagues mentioned the legend of the Dark Lady? Did the
workers at the BCI chemical factory-many of whom are known to hate
the Germans-have anything to do with his death? How could Fred
Foley, the tramp whose bloodstained overcoat was found close to the
scene of the crime, have completely disappeared? And is this murder
connected with one which occurred in Liverpool nearly twenty years
earlier?
Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the
first of a brand-new mystery series. Oxford, 1974.
Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing. She disappeared a few
nights before when she was supposed to be visiting a schoolfriend.
Linda's mother Mary doesn't think her daughter has run away as the
police and her husband believe. She is convinced Linda was murdered
- and she has hired private investigator Jennie Redhead to find out
what really happened to her. The only clue Jennie has to go on is a
fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda's
bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and
make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie's
investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society - and a
hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the
city's dreaming spires.
When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's
College - two bodies, buried thirty years apart - the bursar,
Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers
a series of scandals stretching back sixty years, Jennie wonders
how well she really knows her old friend Charlie and whether she
can trust him.
Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend enters the smoky dens of Liverpool
to stop a killer stuck in a deadly groove. When Eddie Barnes, of
popular group The Seagulls, is electrocuted on the stage of the
Cellar Club, in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool
Police immediately call in Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Charlie
Woodend. But Woodend doesn't understand why Eddie's mother says
that Eddie had a girlfriend, while his best mate insists that he
didn't. And who has been playing nasty tricks on The Seagulls,
culminating in Eddie finding a dead rat - with a noose round its
neck - in his guitar case? As Woodend battles with the complexities
of the case, he is more than aware that if he does not find the
murderer soon, there could well be another death.
DCI Paniatowski's team suspect a murder is the result of ritual
killing, carried out by a secret society. But DCI Dixon treats it
as a mere domestic murder. So Meadows, Crane and Beresford risk
their careers to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, Monika knows killer
and that he is stalking her daughter. Yet she is in a coma, so what
can she do about it?
When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred
suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced
with one of the most baffling cases of her career. The woman who
called herself Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the
past two weeks, having paid cash in advance. But who was she really
- and what was she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If
Monika could discover why the dead woman had come to Lancashire,
she would be one step closer to catching her killer. The
investigation takes an intriguing twist when Monika learns of a
possible link to a fifty-year-old murder - but the only person who
could tell her why it's relevant is lying in a coma.
DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates a case that could be the making
- or, more likely, breaking - of her career DCI Monika Paniatowski
has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is
called in to investigate a nightmare of a case. Not only is the
murder victim a mother of three small children, but her husband is
a wealthy politician. Monika knows that if she can't make a quick
arrest her career is on the line. It's lucky, then, that within
minutes of meeting Councillor Danbury, she has a bruised face - and
a prime suspect. But then the case takes a nasty twist, and
suddenly the investigation is national news. Monika's sure she has
the right man - but how to prove it? Particularly when she's under
pressure from her superiors to arrest anyone other than Councillor
Danbury, president of the golf club and friend of her chief
constable . . .
Introducing Oxford-based private investigator Jennie Redhead in the
first of a brand-new mystery series. Oxford, 1974.
Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing. She disappeared a few
nights before when she was supposed to be visiting a schoolfriend.
Linda's mother Mary doesn't think her daughter has run away as the
police and her husband believe. She is convinced Linda was murdered
- and she has hired private investigator Jennie Redhead to find out
what really happened to her. The only clue Jennie has to go on is a
fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she finds in Linda's
bedroom: Or will you, like a cold and errant coward/Abandon all and
make a shivering turn. But from that one clue Jennie's
investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society - and a
hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the
city's dreaming spires.
Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend finds himself in a
backwater village investigating a murder in this taut police
procedural. 1950s Cheshire, England. When the strangled body of
teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief
Inspector Charlie Woodend is pulled in from London to investigate.
An outspoken Northerner, he does his policing the old-fashioned
way, and he is convinced that Margie Poole, Diane's best friend,
knows more about Diane's last movements than she is prepared to
tell. Then Woodend's inquiry turns up the death of another young
girl a generation before. The similarities in the two cases begin
to look more sinister than mere coincidence. Could there be a
serial killer on the loose. . . ?
On the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever
performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved
that twenty years on they would return to the same theatre and
stage the same play. But two decades later, old resentments have
grown and new jealousies have germinated, and it is a very
different company that returns to re-enact the Spanish Tragedy. The
cast members all have their axes to grind - and some have clear
targets for those axes . . . It is in this world - where normal
rules and standards have no meaning - that DCI Monika Paniatowski
finds herself, once a tragedy within the Tragedy has occurred. But
how can she uncover the killer's motive when everyone seemed to
want the victim dead? And how can she decide who is telling the
truth - when all these people lie for a living?
Monika Paniatowski's boss is trying to destroy her career, but the
dead end case he assigns her turns out to be something else
entirely . . . DCI Monika Paniatowski recognises her latest
assignment as advisor to the Earl of Ridley's rock festival for
what it really is - an attempt by the chief constable to destroy
her career. Yet it soon becomes apparent that matters are not as
simple as they appear. Why, for instance, did the earl choose to
employ the notorious Devil's Disciples motorcycle gang to provide
the security for the festival? And to what lengths will his mother,
the dowager countess, go to destroy it? But it is when the
half-naked body of a tabloid journalist is discovered in the middle
of Whitebridge that things really start to hot up.
"A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for
Monika Paniatowski."
Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman
dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out
who she is - and no one seems to know. Even when her daughter
Louisa provides the vital clue, it only makes life more difficult,
because the Chief Constable - intent on making Paniatowski's life
difficult - refused to let her follow the obvious trail. And it is
not until there is a second, even more brutal, murder, that
Paniatowski realises she will have to call on the help of her old
mentor, ex-DCI Charlie Woodend.
"A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for
Monika Paniatowski."
Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman
dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out
who she is - and no one seems to know. Even when her daughter
Louisa provides the vital clue, it only makes life more difficult,
because the Chief Constable - intent on making Paniatowski's life
difficult - refused to let her follow the obvious trail. And it is
not until there is a second, even more brutal, murder, that
Paniatowski realises she will have to call on the help of her old
mentor, ex-DCI Charlie Woodend.
DCI Monika Paniatowski has a bitter personal history with Chief
Superintendent Kershaw, but that is not the only reason she doesn't
not want the investigation into the sudden - and probably violent -
disappearance of his wife, Elaine, landing on her desk. Why should
all the resources of the Whitebridge police be channelled into this
one case? she asks herself. Why doesn't somebody - anybody - take
an interest in the disappearance of a young prostitute called Grace
Meade? Though she has been told that solving the Kershaw case could
make or break her career, she determines to devote part of her time
to finding out what happened to Grace. But when a heavily mutilated
body is discovered on the moors, it begins to look as if she has
made the wrong decision.
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