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
"Spencer’s skillful writing, clever plotting, and colorful characters, combined with her insights into what makes humans—and especiallycops—tick, make this a crime novel to savor"Booklist Starred Revi
“Spencer scores another top-notch hit with this new series, which features her usual skilful writing, clever plotting, and intriguing characters”Booklist Introducing Oxford-based private investigator
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 s
Five hundred people saw the murder but no one knows who did it! - The entire audience at the George Theatre saw Charlotte Devaraux stab William Kirkpatrick with a fake dagger. But how did the murderer
Prove my wife is innocent or the hostages die!DCI Woodend has just days to prove that Judith Maitland did not butcher her lover; a few terrifying days to find the real killer. But with the hostage-tak
DCI Woodend's first foreign holiday, in General Franco's Spain, ends abruptly when he sees a fellow guest plunge mysteriously from his hotel balcony to the rocky beach below With the help of Paco Ruiz
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
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 Roya
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 Roya
The third book in the new 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 whi
The new Charlie Woodend mystery - Angela Jackson has been missing for over twenty-four hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will
The latest DCI Woodend mystery - Captain Robert Kineally disappeared from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944. Twenty years later, a body is found. Woodend knew and liked Kineally. He knew, a
Blackstone's most dangerous case yet The theft of a Faberg? egg from a Russian country estate goes far beyond the bounds of mere robbery. The egg was a gift to the Prince of Wales from the Tsar and th
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 lead
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 med
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 ho
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
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 med
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 Chie
When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate.
Monika Paniatowski knows exactly who the killer is – but there’s no way she can tell anyone else! DCI Paniatowski’s team are increasingly convinced that the girl found dead in the woods is the victim
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
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 wh
Spanning 80 tumultuous years, the incredible story of a peasant girl who become the Red Princess of the Russian Revolution. Anna Mayakovsky is now a penniless old woman living in London, but no one
A Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend British police proceduralWhen the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Woodend is drafted in from London to in
A Monika Paniatowski British police proceduralOn the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years on they wou
A Monika Paniatowski British police proceduralOn the night the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved that twenty years on they wou
DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates a case that could be the making – or, more likely, breaking – of her careerDCI Monika Paniatowski has only been back from maternity leave for three days when she is
A Monika Paniatowski British police procedural On the night the Whitebridge Players staged their lastever performance, the idealistic young actors in the company resolved thattwenty years on they woul
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
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
Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped on the lonely canalside, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is--but no one seems to know.
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
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
The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend’s prot?g?, DCI Monika Paniatowski - It will be no easy task to fill DCI Charlie Woodend’s shoes, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski
A man is found hanging from a bridge. A second is found hanging from a crane. DCI Charlie Woodend soon discovers that the men did military service together in Cyprus. When a third ex-soldier disappear
It is a worried letter for Tom Yardley, an old army comrade who once saved his life, that takes Inspector Sam Blackstone to the salt mining village of Marston. But by the time he arrives there, Yardle
Politician spills his guts all over the road! - The discovery of Bradley Pine's body off a busy road signals the end of his bid to win a local election. But why would the killer risk dumping the body
The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery - July 1900: Sam Blackstone has gone to New York to pick up a prisoner, but he soon finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector OBrien who
