Monika Paniatowski mysteries
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2012.
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English
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"The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that's exactly what it gets when a retired miner called Len Hopkins is found battered to death in his outside lavatory"--Dust jacket flap.
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2014, ©2013.
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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, refuses to let her follow the obvious trail. And it is not until there is a second, even more brutal murder, that...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 8
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English
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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...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 9
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English
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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...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 10
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English
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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...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 11
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English
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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...
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 12
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English
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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 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...
13) Dead End
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 13
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English
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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?...
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Poison , Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 14
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Monika Paniatowski mysteries volume 15
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English
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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,...