Blood in the Sand
Katarzyna Bonda
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR LOVE BUT FOUND DEATH
This is a real story. Charming murderer killing with cold blood soon after he kissed them tenderly. He planned meticulously and killed without a second thought and guilt. Although on 14th of June 2023 the man was given a life sentence, the “Bloody Tulip” case still abounds in mysteries.
NOVEL INSPIRED BY REAL CRIMESHe had hypnotic eyes and pleasing appearance. Tall, broad-shouldered, always well-dressed. The life with him was a never-ending fairytale. He had insatiable appetite for living and lofty ambitions. He was admired not only by young girls, but also by their mature mothers, unhappy wives and serious female officials. An ideal man. A dream come true. Entangled in a dozen or so affairs at a time. Most of them lasted for years. At least three women he slept with were murdered.
DATE WITH A DEVIL
When Wanda Rudecka met Adam Szulc she wasn’t looking for love, but for a business partner. The business was meant to help her bounce back. However, it didn’t last long when she got infatuated and her professional plans changed into wedding plans. Meanwhile, other women were looking to the future with the local Casanova and this love cost some of them lives.
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Love Conquers Death
Katarzyna Bonda
Feelings, manipulation and... death. All crime is born out of greed. Money, power, a loved one, respect. What did Radosław Skowron’s murderer want, or what could he have lost had he not killed him?
In a small village, a local businessman disappears. Police dogs lose the trail just outside the gate surrounding the millionaire’s huge estate. Weeks pass, and there is no trace of the man. The breakthrough comes on a hot August afternoon. In a forest several hundred kilometres away, a man’s body is found wrapped in a blue bag.... Who stood to gain the most from the millionaire’s death? How did his corpse end up at the other end of Poland? Why does the victim’s wife refuse to appear for questioning? And what made the man disinherit his only son just before his death? The Skowron family hides many dirty secrets... And everything becomes even more complicated when it comes to light that already a year earlier there had been an attempted murder of a respected businessman. The case is led by Nikodem Ferenc, head of the district police. The man is very zealous in his duties: he personally accepted a missing person’s report from Radosław Skowron’s wife and regularly spends his nights patrolling the area around their property. It soon becomes apparent that his meticulous attention to the case turns into an obsessive desire to meet Anna, the wife of the murdered...
Katarzyna Bonda changed the names of the characters and the names of the localities where the action takes place. But most of the details and important facts of the case, which the prosecution has turned into circumstantial evidence, are based on a true story.
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Love Makes Us Good
Katarzyna Bonda
The evil they commit is little different from bloody crimes. It causes suffering and irrevocably destroys people’s lives. However, there is something intriguing about frauds… A mysterious quality that attracts us like a magnet. That is why Katarzyna Bonda decided to write a novel about a ruthless, but brilliant fraud – Daniel Skalski.
The court records concerning one of the greatest frauds of the Third Polish Republic comprise more than one hundred and twenty volumes. I have read every sheet of them. Working with the collected material was very painful – it felt like communing with the devil. That is why I decided to create my character on the basis of the devil archetype – this is how the most popular author of crime stories in Poland recollects working on her latest book Love Makes Us Good.
The protagonist of the novel, Daniel Skalski, quickly becomes aware that a legitimate job will not provide him with the means to lead the luxurious life he dreams of. In the pursuit of an easy income, he becomes a criminal. The first opportunity to gain a fortune crosses his path when he meets Gabrysia – a bank clerk who cannot resist his charm. It is she who teaches him the weak points of securities hedging.
At first, Skalski robs the representatives of trading companies in Poland; after that he starts operating on an international scale, handling millions of dollars. He moves to London, where he consistently builds his name as a financier and broker of hedge funds. Now his life is just lies and plotting. Some lives will be destroyed…
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Love heals wounds
Katarzyna Bonda
A novel based on a true story
„Love heals wounds” is a multi-layered, mysterious and puzzling story of love and crime, struggle and hope. The novel is constructed around two separate time planes and numerous threads, connected by a love story between a Polish woman and a runaway from Kazakhstan. It is based on a true story – the characters have their counterparts in real life. Katarzyna Bonda began to collect materials for this book almost two decades ago. Initially, she wanted to publish it even before her best-selling tetralogy „The Four Elements of Sasza Zaluska”, but some people tried to prevent it. The safety of her family was threatened and Bonda herself was harrassed and bullied. However, she did not give up; after several years, she resumed the topic and the novel „Miłość leczy rany” was finally written.
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