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4) Dying fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. As Woodend attempts to solve a murder with no clues, he must also battle against a police authority blocking him at every turn. And worse is to follow, because Elizabeth Driver, Inspector Bob Rutters lover, has almost finished the book which could destroy everything he has ever worked for.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder? "Spencer gives Monika Paniatowski the send-off she richly deserves" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review 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...
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Woodend has a murder to solve. Trouble is, nobody seems to want him to solve it - not Eddie, a Liverpudlian thug sent to threaten him; not DCI Bentley; not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland Yard; not even the dead girl's mother herself. But Woodend cares. He will find the murderer, he promises himself, even if that means putting his career and perhaps even his own life on the line.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 treating it as a mere domestic murder will get them nowhere. And so Meadows, Crane and Beresford...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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 - refused to let her follow the obvious trail. And it is not until there is a second, even more brutal, murder, that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
"When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although sh'e convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she...
15) A long time dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"When Captain Robert Kineally went missing from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944, it was generally assumed he had lost his nerve and deserted. But now, twenty years after the War ended, a body found on the near-derelict base seems to tell an entirely different story. DCI Charlie Woodend has strong reasons for not wanting the case."--Book jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Eddie Barnes is electrocuted on the stage of The Cellar Club, in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool Police immediately call in Scotland Yard. Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend must learn to think like musicians think before another murder occurs.
17) Dry bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Jennie Redhead finds her loyalties divided when she investigates the decades-old murder of a college student. Oxford, 1974. In the cellars beneath St Luke's College, a sealed medieval ventilation shaft is opened up to reveal human bones. Two bodies, buried thirty years apart, but is there a connection ... Desperate to protect the College's reputation - and finances - the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires his old friend, private investigator...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
December, 1916. Inspector Sam Blackstone is suspicious when he is called to the office of Superintendent Brigham – the new head of special branch – and confused that Brigham seems to want to see him as little as Sam himself wishes to be there. An already stranger situation grows more strange when Sam discovers what he’s there for: a German traitor wants £25,000 in exchange for secret intelligence on U-boat locations, and ‘Max’ has specifically...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer, her partner and closest friend Detective Inspector Colin Beresford, is behaving in a way that threatens to tear the team apart.
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