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Where the Devil Can't Go [Kindle Edition]

Anya Lipska (Author)
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'A WELCOME TREAT. Engagingly written with good characterisation...a great sense of location and atmosphere, with a brisk pace...and that touch of emotional resonance that marks out a novel as being above standard fare. I highly recommend it.' MAXINE CLARKE, aka top crime reviewer Petrona, who voted it her joint top read so far of 2012. http://tinyurl.com/cqnj87b

‘A MOST UNUSUAL and exciting thriller, with an immediacy and vividness that give it terrific appeal… It is a great read!’ DAME JOAN BAKEWELL, author and broadcaster

'THE CHARACTER of Janusz is excellent; that a foul-mouthed, unfaithful and occasionally violent and inebriated man should confess to a priest may perplex English readers but to a Catholic it is credible. The characters are all excellently portrayed and the narrative quickly grips the reader. I highly recommend it.' PIERS PAUL READ, author

'A FAST-MOVING, well-told tale of murder, casual exploitation and old betrayals – political religious and personal. Lipska lets no-one off the hook and I guarantee you will never look at a Polish builder the same way again.’ DENISE DANKS, crime writer, twice shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger

'AN EXCELLENT CRIME NOVEL: an unpredictable but uncontrived plot, gritty without being gratuitous, and well-drawn characters you want to spend time with. The fluent naturalism of the prose is reminiscent of Ian Rankin, as are the shots of humour. And I even learnt a bit of Polish.' THE KILLING TIME crime fiction blog. http://tiny.cc/j36fcw

'THE WAY Lipska captures the atmosphere of a London scene is truly remarkable. She has a very fine eye. I wasn't that excited about a new voice in a long time.' ANDREA BEST, Random House Germany (publishing German version 2012)

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A NAKED girl is washed up on London’s Thames foreshore, the only clue to her identity a heart-shaped tattoo encircling two names. The sixteenth dead body recovered from the river in 2009, she is dubbed db16 by police. But who is db16? And why did she die..?

Life’s already complicated enough for Janusz Kiszka, unofficial fixer to East London’s Polish community. His priest is nagging him to find a missing waitress, a builder on the Olympics site owes him a pile of money, and he’s falling for the married Kasia, Soho’s most straitlaced stripper. What starts out as a routine missing persons job soon sees Janusz threatened by drug dealing gangsters and accused of murder by DC Natalie Kershaw, an ambitious young female detective investigating the death of db16.

Janusz's search for answers takes him on a reluctant visit home to the mist-wreathed port of Gdansk, the site of traumatic memories from the Soviet era. There, in the cellar of a former secret policeman, he uncovers evidence of a decades-old betrayal – and a conspiracy that will reach its chilling denouement in a derelict warehouse in London’s Docklands.

An enjoyable mix of classic detective murder mystery and intelligent political thriller, ‘Where the Devil Can’t Go’ keeps the plot twists coming and the pages turning. Lipska’s portrait of contemporary London has been compared to Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh, and her hero Kiszka, the shovel-fisted yet honourable private investigator is destined to become a crime readers’ favourite.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 720 KB
  • Print Length: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Tadeusz Books (21 Nov 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006BG6HHW
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #990 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Terrific 1 Jan 2012
By G.P.W.
Format:Kindle Edition
The premise of this novel may sound like it's heading for a fairly standard murder story, but the novel quickly takes off in pleasingly unexpected directions.

Janusz, an unofficial 'fixer' for many of London's Polish community, gets embroiled in a murder investigation while trying to track down a missing girl. Janusz is a terrific, curiously believable character; he has been in the UK for years, since long before there was a Polski sklep on every city high street, and he brings an interesting perspective to the story - often torn between seeing things as an immigrant and a native. Janusz's investigations eventually lead him back to Poland, where we get a glimpse of the country through his eyes, an native returning after a long-absence, even seen as something of an outsider by many of the solid old-timers.

Janusz shares the novel with Natalie Kershaw, a young Met. detective She is a woman trying to make it in the still male-dominated police force, but this isn't hammered home to the point of cliché; rather than consciously rebelling, Natalie reacts with a very relatable frustration. And although she inevitably gets into trouble for not following all the rules, it's not in one of the overly-dramatic ways beloved by the heroes of police procedurals.

Commendably, the novel doesn't shy away from big themes, and manages to address them without the use of a shoehorn. Religion is tackled naturally through Janusz's ingrained Catholicism, which he maintains more as an obligation (although he often makes use of the confessional). Opposing forms of the faith are represented by Janusz's pestering, well-connected priest and the obstructive, shady principal of a Catholic theology college. Dodgy politics also enters into matters.

The fluent naturalism of the prose is reminiscent of Ian Rankin, as are the shots of humour. The interactions among the police officers are particularly well-drawn, most notably Natalie's surprisingly touching relationship with her old-school sergeant.

The police story is well-researched and well-paced, but Janusz steals the show. It's great to see immigration and multiculturalism tackled from the other side of the mirror, something I've certainly not seen in a mainstream British novel of late, and probably (and very sadly) the reason the book was unable to find a UK publisher. Fortunately, the Kindle revolution can help out with that.

'Where the Devil Can't Go' is an excellent crime novel: an unpredictable but uncontrived plot, gritty without being gratuitous, and well-drawn characters you want to spend time with. And I even learnt a bit of Polish.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
GREAT READ 29 Nov 2011
By penfold
Format:Kindle Edition
I ripped through this book and even missed my tube stop a couple of times because of it. Where The Devil Can't Go is set within London's Polish community and a big part of its charm comes from learning about the lives of people most of us know very little about, aside from the Polish shops, cafes and builders.

There's a historical / political component to the story and much of clearly well-researched detail woven through the book brings a subtle sense of tension.

The female main character, Natalie, is the kind of sharp, sassy lady I'd like to have as a drinking companion and the other prominent character, Janusz, initially seems like a very cool player. But as the story unfolds, they both quickly begin to quickly feel like old friends and Lipska writes their inner lives as fault-prone and darkly humorous. In fact, there is a lot of dark humour in this book.

The story has some breath-taking twists and turns, with several brilliantly drawn action scenes, told with a filmic intensity. During one, I literally couldn't turn the pages fast enough! If you like crime / thriller / mystery - or just a decent, unpretentious and entertaining read that stubbornly refuses to sit in any one genre - then give it a go...
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Simon Clarke TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
This is a very assured debut crime novel that contains all
the essential ingredients for an enjoyable thriller.
Janusz Kiszka,a Pole who has lived in London for 20 years
is asked by his priest to find a Polish waitress who has
gone missing from the capital.Meanwhile a young woman is
found dead floating in the River Thames,and shortly afterwards,
another women is discovered dead in a bed in a Docklands hotel.
As rookie Detective Constable Natalie Kershaw investigates
these deaths ,her path crosses with Kiszka,and he becomes a
suspect.As they go their own ways with their inquiries
(Kiszka to Poland),their concerns increasingly become connected.
'Where The Devil Can't Go'is an assiduously researched novel that
gives us a glimpse of the London Polish community and the murky
history of 1980's Poland.It is cleverly plotted,and provides two
fully engaging characters in Kershaw and Kiszka.
Excellent .Definitely an author to watch out for.
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