Supping with the Devil
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"Spencer has devised a thrill ride that’s not easily forgotten." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Monika Paniatowski’s boss is trying to destroy her career, but the dead end case he assigns her turns out to be something else entirely . . .
DCI Monika Paniatowski recognises her latest assignment as advisor to the Earl of Ridley’s rock festival for what it really is – an attempt by the chief constable to destroy her career. Yet it soon becomes apparent that matters are not as simple as they appear. Why, for instance, did the earl choose to employ the notorious Devil’s Disciples motorcycle gang to provide the security for the festival? And to what lengths will his mother, the dowager countess, go to destroy it? But it is when the half-naked body of a tabloid journalist is discovered in the middle of Whitebridge that things really start to hot up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1976, Spencer's superior eighth mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Monika Paniatowski (after 2013's Death's Dark Shadow) finds the Whitebridge copper shunted aside by her vindictive boss to serve as adviser to Gervaise de Courtney, 13th Earl of Ridley, who's sponsoring a Woodstock-like festival on his estate. Both the earl's family and the police foresee trouble that they'll be powerless to prevent. Meanwhile, the activities of a host of other characters a rider in a motorcycle gang doing concert security, members of Paniatowski's unhappy squad, an unemployed journalist who has just published a career-changing story, a teen singer expecting to make it big ratchet up the tension long before violence erupts. When it does, Monika's replacement has a suspect in mind and demands evidence to prove it. Most of the violence is off-camera, but fierce all the same. Spencer has devised a thrill ride that's not easily forgotten.
