Sally Spencer

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...

"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?...

"DCI Paniatowski's team are convinced that the girl found dead in the woods is the victim of a ritual killing, carried out by a secret society 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 find themselves out on a lim--cutting...

DCI Monika Paniatowski faces an old enemy – and makes a fatal mistake with the potential to poison her whole career.
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...

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.

DCI Monika Paniatowski recognizes 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,...

To fulfill a debt, Blackstone travels to the Western Front to investigate the murder of a young lieutenant only to find officers resent his presence and enlisted men either refuse, or do not dare, talk to him.

HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery...August, 1900. William Holt, a reclusive millionaire businessman with a fearsome reputation, has been kidnapped from 'Ocean Heights', his grand Coney Island home, after the brutal murder of his two bodyguards. Soon, a ransom of half a million dollars is demanded and the victim's two sons are given just three days to find the money. Inspector Sam Blackstone, now seconded to the New York...

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A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his living room, and who on earth are the victims? Charlie Woodend isn't amused with the people who are getting under his feet as he starts to grapple with these questions, but his steps are abruptly...

Five little Englishmen, feeling quite secure, one went and lost his head, and then there were four.
When Terry Pugh's headless body is found floating in the canal, DCI Woodend at first believes that Pugh had merely miscalculated the amount of rope he needed to hang himself. But why would Pugh commit suicide when he had a loving wife who was expecting their first baby, and was just about to start an exciting new job?
Other disturbing...