This book reads like a cosy crime novel. I am unsure what other readers thought about this book but to me, it falls into the category of a cosy mystery. It is neither brilliant nor bad. Enjoy!
Hardback blurb: It will be no easy task to fill the shoes of a local legend like DCI Charlie Woodend, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself - particularly when he's still a very real presence in Whitebridge - but given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them.
Yet time is the one thing she does not have.
On her first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank.
And not only that, but the killer has already alerted the press, as if he is deliberately forcing Monika into the spotlight.
Only hours into the case, she finds she can no longer trust her colleagues - or even herself - and the urge to pick up the phone and bed Woodend for help becomes almost irresistible.
About the author: Sally Spencer (a pseudonym used by Alan Rustage) worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah.
She now lives in Spain and writes full-time.
Having once been an almost fanatical mah-jong player, she is now obsessed with duplicate bridge.
As well as the Chief Inspector Woodend Mysteries, Severn House publishes the Inspector Blackstone series, also by this author.
The Dead Hand of History, a British police procedural, was published in 2009. Other books in the DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery series are
The Ring of Death (2010)
Echoes of the Dead (2010)
Backlash (2011)
Reviewed at Paradise-Mysteries.
Rating: 2/5
No comments:
Post a Comment