Bøger af Sally Spencer

Angela, a young girl abducted from Whitebridge Corporation Park, has been missing for over 24 hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Charlie Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. Can Woodend and his team find Angela before she is killed?

Twenty years ago, the Whitebridge Players staged their last ever performance and swore that they'd return to the same theatre and stage the same play. Two decades later, they do - with tragic results. DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates. But how can she decide who is telling the truth - when all these people lie for a living?

DCI Monika Paniatowski has never forgotten her first, difficult encounter with Whitebridge businessman Jordan Gough. Nor, she thinks, has he. So when he claims he's been receiving death threats and only she can help, she thinks he's up to something - and makes a terrible mistake .

Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked attack which left the police baffled. But Grace's daughter refuses to accept that the trail has run cold. Determined to find out who killed her mother, she knows just the woman for the job: private investigator Jennie Redhead.

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 . . .

The investigation into the brutal murder of a Blackpool policeman during holiday season was never going to be easy, but the case is not Woodend's only problem. His new boss, DS Ainsworth, is just waiting for an opportunity to stick a knife in his back.

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.

When Eddie Barnes, of popular group The Seagulls, is electrocuted on stage in front of 300 adoring fans, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend can't understand why Eddie's mother says he had a girlfriend, while his best mate insists he didn't. And that's only the first anomaly in this strangest of cases.

Swann's Lake, 1960. When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Chief Inspector Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate.

1950s Cheshire, England. When the strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend is pulled in from London to investigate.