"It will be no easy task to fill the shoes of a local legend like DCI Charlie Woodend, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself - particularly when he's still a very real presence in Whitebridge - but given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them. But on her first day in the new job a severed hand is found on the riverbank."
"On Monika's first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank. Only hours into the case, she finds she can no longer trust her colleagues-- or even herself."
"On Monika's first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank. Only hours into the case, she finds she can no longer trust her colleagues-- or even herself."@en
""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, eith the discovery of a severed hand, time is the one thing she does not have."--Publisher comments."@en
"The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend's prot?? DCI Monika Paniatowski. On her first day in the new job, a severed female hand is discovered on the riverbank, then a second hand - belonging to the first victim's reputed lover - is sent to a journalist. However, Monika refuses to arrest the obvious suspect, Stan Szymborska."@en

The dead hand of history a DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery