DI Joanna Piercy series by Priscilla Masters (#1~11,13)
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Overview: Priscilla Masters’ writing career started in 1987 when she published Mr. Bateman’s Garden, a children’s book set in Biddulph Grange Gardens belonging to the National Trust. After that she created Inspector Joanna Piercy and has now also written a number of Medical Mysteries. Priscilla Masters lives in Shropshire, England. She works part-time in Staffordshire as a practice nurse.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
1. Winding Up the Serpent
Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith and finds Marilyn upstairs, spread-eagled across the bed. Provocatively dressed and elaborately made-up, Marilyn is also very dead. Despite a lack of evidence at the post mortem, DI Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. A newcomer and a woman in the remote moorland town, Piercy must battle against several prejudices in her determination to find the killer – but could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith’s death was not murder at all…?
2. Catch The Fallen Sparrow
An old woman watches a ten year-old boy burn to death under an outcrop known as the "Winking Man". The body is scarred by cigarette burns, the hands tattooed and the clothes scruffy. But a gold ring he is wearing belongs to a local MP, dead for over a year. D.I Joanna Piercy investigates.
3. A Wreath For My Sister
Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and spindly high-heels. It is cold, very cold, as a snowstorm sweeps the moors and Leek. But Sharon doesn’t feel the cold…Neither does Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, for she is at the annual Legal Ball fending off Randall Pelham who wants her to find his missing daughter Deborah. It is not Deborah but Sharon who soon concentrates Joanna’s mind. The thaw sets in, and Sharon’s frozen body and its horrific injury reveal that Joanna has a murder on her hands. And not just one, either…
4. And None Shall Sleep
A local man sits outside Horton village primary school watching the children. DI Joanna Piercy is called to investigate. Thinking the man is harmless she decides there is nothing to worry about. She is terribly wrong – a few days later Madeline Wiltshaw goes missing.
5. Scaring Crows
When Dave Shackleton arrived at Hardacre farm to collect milk, he found Aaron Summers with a fatal shotgun wound in his chest. Next to him lay the body of his son, Jack, and by the door the abandoned shotgun. A massive Police search is set in motion to find the missing daughter Ruthie Summers — alive or dead…
6. Embroidering Shrouds
A spate of robberies targeting elderly women has shocked the normally sedate town of Leek to its core. And now it appears that the robbers have moved on to murder. At the eerily named Spite Hall, the body of Nancy Lawrence has been found bludgeoned to death, lying over the tapestry she was in the process of embroidering. When Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy begins her investigation she is surprised to find that the victim’s next door neighbor is Nan’s brother with whom Nan has not spoken in years. With the aid of her colleagues, Joanna unravels a mystery – the tangled threads of which are rooted years in the past.
7. Endangering Innocents
Something is amiss at a small primary school in the village of Horton. A local man, Joshua Baldwin, has been sitting in his car outside the school watching the children as they play. So DI Joanna Piercy is called out to investigate. She meets with the teachers and with Baldwin and eventually decides there is nothing to worry about. She is terribly wrong. A few days later little Madeline Wiltshaw goes missing from her home in Horton. Joanna is distraught that she trusted her gut instinct so implicitly, that she was not more suspicious of Baldwin. And the coming weeks will be a testing time for Joanna, as she desperately tries to find young Madeline. But with foot and mouth disease ruling the surrounding countryside off-limits, Joanna’s task is made doubly difficult…
8. Wings Over the Watcher
In separate locations in Leek, three separate tableaux are being performed. DI Piercy is writing to her lover to try and explain recent events; her sidekick Mike is filling in his insurance form after his wife has had a minor prang in the car; and an unknown person is penning love letters to the local doctor.
9. Grave Stones
For recently engaged Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, a murder is the last things she wants to deal with. Especially one with as dark a back story as that relating to calculating landowner and farmer Jakob Grimshaw; a man who managed to make enemies of all his neighbours and what little family he still had.One thing is certain; Joanna has a tough job ahead of her.
10. The Velvet Scream
On a snowy December morning, a young woman is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Half dead from the cold, she says she has been raped. As Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, fresh from a disciplinary action, investigates, she learns that Kayleigh Harrison has made unsubstantiated allegations before against her stepfather. But there are possible links to a similar rape case six months previously . . . Is there a real case to investigate or not? Kayleigh holds the key, but how much of her story can be trusted?
11. The Final Curtain
A former child soap star needs Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy’s help – are her claims real-life drama or just an act?
Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants deal with on her return to work is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents. The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a sixties’ child star in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who lives in an isolated farmhouse. Is she putting on an act and wasting police time, or is someone really trying to frighten her? Joanna is dubious, but as events become even more creepy and disturbing, her instinct tells her something is not right. What is Timony hiding? As she digs into her past, Joanna discovers a shocking secret. It seems that someone may have sinister intentions towards Timony after all . . .
13. Crooked Street
Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to return home one miserable March night, she rings the police, certain that something has happened to him. DI Joanna Piercy and DS Mike Korpanski are sceptical: there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. So what is the truth about Jadon? As the investigation proceeds, it soon becomes apparent that Jadon Glover has been keeping dark secrets from his wife. And as the police pursue their house-to-house enquiries through the claustrophobic, jumbled streets of cramped Victorian terraces, they unearth other secrets from behind the net curtains. But, whatever else has been going on among the inhabitants’ quiet, desperate lives, it’s clear that at least one of them knows what really happened to Jadon …
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12. Guilty Waters
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