Poison
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Publisher Description
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 encounter with him as a young detective sergeant left an impression she’s never forgotten. And neither, she is certain, has he.
So when Jordan calls and demands to speak to Monika – and only Monika – she is on immediate high alert. He claims someone’s trying to kill him, but why has he destroyed the evidence? Why turn for help to an officer he hates?
Certain she’s the target of a twisted practical joke, Monika makes a terrible mistake – one that could destroy everything she holds dear.
The fourteenth DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery is a powerful and dark tale of revenge, secrets and lies, which grips you tight as it reveals twist after stunning twist.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1981, Spencer's tidily plotted 14th mystery featuring Lancashire Det. Chief Insp. Monika Paniatowski (after 2019's Dead End) draws Paniatowski and her eclectic team into a complex web of deceit. Jordan Gough, biggest public benefactor of the town of Whitebridge, as well as owner of that city's soccer team, requests that Paniatowski come to his estate for a meeting. She's not happy with the summons since she's sure Gough, despite a lack of evidence, has been involved in criminal activities, but her superior officer forces her to comply. Gough tells her he's received anonymous threatening letters, which he refuses to show her, and fears he's being poisoned. She dismisses his worries because she believes they're fantasies—or, as she tells her boss, he's "playing some kind of elaborate game." When Gough dies of food poisoning, Paniatowski has a murder to investigate. Her interactions with well-defined supporting characters, such as Det. Sgt. Kate Meadows, "a part-time sado-masochist, and—in spite of her pixie haircut and elfin figure—a full-time scary person," creates a bit of humor amid a full complement of action and suspense. Readers will hope Paniatowski has a long career.
