A Walk with the Dead (A DCI Monika Paniatowski Mystery)
DCI Monika Paniatowski is a skilled detective who keeps her team motivated but still shows flashes of humanizing vulnerability. This time out, the case brings a terrible sense of déjà vu as a 13-year-old girl goes missing in the same way that Monika’s beloved adopted daughter, Louisa, did two months earlier. But while Louisa’s case had a happy ending, the story for Jill Harris ends tragically when she is found dead. Monika feels the pressure, compounded by the fact that her boss (and former lover), Chief Constable George Baxter, is away investigating a suicide in a Yorkshire prison. Soon there’s another victim, with no traces left behind. Spencer is expert at weaving human foibles and flaws, personal insecurities, and individual tragedies with authentic details of daily life as a copper in 1960s Britain. The result? A gripping thriller that will please a broad range of readers. --Emily Melton