Dead Hand of History (A DCI Monika Paniatowski Mystery, 1) - Hardcover

Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727868055 ISBN 13: 9780727868053

Publisher: Severn House, 2009

Synopsis

The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend's protege, 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 . . .

About this title

About the Author:

Spencer was born and brought up in Cheshier. She has been a teacher in England and Iran.

From Publishers Weekly:

Spencer elevates Monika Paniatowski, the protégé of Det. Chief Insp. Charlie Woodend (A Dying Fall, etc.), to center stage in this pedestrian police procedural set in 1973 Lancashire. On her first day as Woodend's successor, Paniatowski faces a misogynistic sergeant with an axe to grind and visits the site of a grisly discovery—a bag containing a severed human hand. After another hand turns up and proves to be that of baker Tom Whittington, the police figure out the first hand belongs to Linda Szymborska, Whittington's managing director at the bakery, with whom he was having an affair. Szymborska's husband is the obvious suspect, but Paniatowski hesitates to arrest him, opening herself to charges of bias due to their shared Polish background. Readers should be prepared for stock characters—the single mother trying to succeed in a man's world, her subordinate determined to undermine her—and a routine plot. (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0727868055
• ISBN 13: 9780727868053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240