Where the Devil Can’t Go

Where the Devil Can’t Go
Anya Lipska

THE FIRST KISZKA AND KERSHAW MYSTERYA naked girl has washed up on the banks of the River Thames. The only clue to her identity is a heart-shaped tattoo encircling two foreign names. Who is she – and why did she die?Life’s already complicated enough for Janusz Kiszka, unofficial 'fixer' for East London’s Polish community: his priest has asked him to track down a young waitress who has gone missing; a builder on the Olympics site owes him a pile of money; and he’s falling for married Kasia, Soho’s most strait-laced stripper. But when Janusz finds himself accused of murder by an ambitious young detective, Natalie Kershaw, and pursued by drug dealing gang members, he is forced to take an unscheduled trip back to Poland to find the real killer.In the mist-wreathed streets of his hometown of Gdansk, Janusz must confront painful memories from the Soviet past if he is to uncover the conspiracy – and with it, a decades-old betrayal.

WHERE THE

DEVIL CAN’T GO

ANYA LIPSKA

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For Tomasz

Our homeland is on the verge of collapse … The atmosphere of conflicts, misunderstanding, hatred causes moral degradation, surpasses the limits of toleration.Strikes, the readiness to strike, actions of protest have become a norm of life.

Citizens! … I declare, that today the Military Council of National Salvation has been formed. In accordance with the Constitution, the State Council has imposed martial law all over the country.

General Jaruzelski, Communist Leader of Poland, speaking on December 13, 1981

The winter is yours, but the summer will be ours.

Solidarnosc graffiti during martial law,

Poland, 1981–83

Table of Contents

Title Page (#uaa921da9-6616-550a-b161-9f243a9ff161)

Copyright (#u78684d32-2ab8-5901-a052-ae2bd737654b)

Dedication (#uf8f2b0e4-cd3c-5369-84b0-61fb6600aa53)

Epigraph (#u9b3ad5a5-e4e2-597a-a902-5e9a592f900b)

Prologue (#u7fa47149-739d-5e65-ad7d-d770e296cee9)

Chapter One (#u9e3e70c6-fb48-5c00-9a13-8aa5108fd170)

Chapter Two (#u8c93d1da-8f97-5b42-b651-44b7ba82d864)

Chapter Three (#ub151192f-66ae-5b36-a864-08460bf3114b)

Chapter Four (#uf6a22164-8295-5169-9e06-87182a283b50)

Chapter Five (#ub867715d-698c-5fe8-9888-0dbb09de3f62)

Chapter Six (#u3f10ab57-0ebd-5878-bae0-6f038b4cb980)

Chapter Seven (#ud796dc9d-6b8b-52b2-94b3-304bc423c559)

Chapter Eight (#u064fa8fb-a17d-54ad-84a6-661dd87cae39)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)