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Series
Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Description
DCI Monica Paniatowski becomes emotionally invested in finding the murderer of a wedding guest who was killed just hours after the investigator saw her alive.
Author
Series
Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski's bitter personal history with Chief Superintendent Tom Kershaw makes her resent the emphasis being put on finding his wife, who has apparently been kidnapped following an automobile accident, and when young prostitute Grace Meade also disappears, Monika sees enough similarities to justify widening her search, even though she has been told to devote her time to the Kershaw case.
3) Poison
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Jordan Gough is an important man. He's the town's biggest benefactor. He is the proprietor of the Whitebridge Evening Telegraph. He owns the local football team.He is also, DCI Monika Paniatowski thinks, as bent as a corkscrew - and if she had any evidence, she'd put him away like a shot. A single encounter with him as a young detective sergeant left an impression she's never forgotten. And neither, she is certain, has he.So when Jordan calls and...
4) Dead end
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"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?...
Author
Series
Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In Monika's first day on the job, a severed female head is found on a riverbank, and the killer has already alerted the press.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer, her partner and closest friend Detective Inspector Colin Beresford, is behaving in a way that threatens to tear the team apart.
Author
Series
Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
The third book in the series featuring DCI Monika Paniatowski - 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...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
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,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
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...
10) The hidden
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
DCI Paniatowski's team are increasingly convinced that the girl found dead in the woods is the victim of a ritual killing, carried out by a secret society which has been established in the very heart of Whitebridge. Their problem is that without Paniatowski there to back them up, they find it impossible to persuade the ambitious DCI 'Rhino' Dixon that treating it as a mere domestic murder will get them nowhere. And so Meadows, Crane and Beresford...
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