Ring of Death (A Monika Panitowski Mystery, 2) - Hardcover

Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0727868683 ISBN 13: 9780727868688

Publisher: Severn House, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

After Spencer retired her delightfully irascible DCI Charlie Woodend, most fans sensed it was the end of an era. But in Monika Paniatowski, Woodend's replacement as DCI, Spencer has created a new protagonist who might even best Woodend. Paniatowski has overcome a horrific childhood to reach her elevated position and is focused on filling Woodend's very big shoes. Unfortunately, it's 1970s Britain, and most of Monika's male colleagues believe a woman's place is at home. But her colleagues' resentment is the least of her worries when a man's mutilated body is found near Whitebridge, posed on hands and knees and stark naked. Clearly, the killer was trying to deliver a message, but Paniatowski and her team can't begin to guess what it might be. Then two more bodies are found, also naked and posed, and the stakes are raised still further. As usual, Spencer produces a hugely entertaining police procedural, but it's her keen perception of human nature and her ability to draw flawed but sympathetic characters that make this extension of the Woodend series such a standout. --Booklist, 1st May 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Severn House
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0727868683
• ISBN 13: 9780727868688
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240