TY - BOOK AU - Spencer,Sally TI - The dead hand of history: a DCI Monika Paniatowski mystery SN - 9780727899897 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2013///, c2011 CY - Sutton, Surrey PB - Severn House Large Print KW - Police KW - England KW - Fiction KW - Polish people KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Large type books N2 - HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. The first in a new series featuring Charlie Woodend's protege, DCI Monika Paniatowski 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, with the discovery of a severed hand, time is the one thing she does not have. When her colleagues prove untrustworthy, the urge to call Woodend for help becomes almost irresistible ER -