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The Warsaw Quartet

The Warsaw Quartet follows Jan Kalisz, a former senior Polish investigator forced to work for the German criminal police after the occupation of Warsaw. Secretly serving the Polish resistance, Kalisz investigates murders that the occupying authorities value according to the nationality and usefulness of the victims, while concealing his allegiance from colleagues, enemies and even his family.

The four cases move from the invasion and occupation of 1939 through the Warsaw Ghetto, an SOE training centre in Scotland and the approach of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Historical crime, resistance activity and intelligence work are interwoven with the Holocaust and the destruction of occupied Poland, making each investigation both a search for an individual killer and a test of survival inside a system built on organised violence.

Reading order

Books in this series (4 books)

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#1 – Blood Roses

Douglas Jackson

In September 1939, former Warsaw chief investigator Jan Kalisz is compelled to work with the German criminal police while secretly passing information to the emerging Polish resistance. His double life isolates him from neighbours who see only collaboration and from a family he cannot trust with…

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#2 – Blood Sacrifice

Douglas Jackson

In January 1943, Jan Kalisz has promised to obtain weapons for Jews preparing to resist inside the Warsaw Ghetto. An apparently useful opportunity appears when a German officer with several identities is murdered, but the investigation draws Kalisz into the enclosed district as deportation, starvation and…

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#3 – Blood Vengeance

Douglas Jackson

On Christmas Day 1943, Polish SOE agent Krystina Kowolska is found hanged at an Arisaig training establishment in Scotland. Evidence suggests that she may have been killed before the body was suspended, turning a death that could damage relations between Britain and its Polish allies into…

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#4 – Blood Enemy

Douglas Jackson

In June 1944, a Wehrmacht war-crimes investigator and his escort are killed in an ambush attributed to the Polish resistance. Jan Kalisz doubts the obvious explanation and receives reluctant permission to investigate as German confidence weakens before the approaching Red Army. The search takes him through…