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Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith. She finds Marilyn upstairs, spreadeagled across the bed, provacatively dressed and elaborately made up – she is also stone dead.

Despite a lack of evidence at the post mortem, Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. As a newcomer and a woman in this remote moorland town, she must battle against long-held prejudices in her determination to find the killer. But could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith’s death was not murder after all …?

‘It’s Masters’ first novel and a cracking start to her career in literary crime’ - Daily Express

The first in Telos Publishing’s reissues of noted British crime author Priscilla Masters’.Joanna Piercy mystery series

Length: 244 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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ASIN : B00JUJ33Z6
Publisher : Telos Publishing Ltd (21 April 2014)
Language : English
File size : 3830 KB
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Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 244 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1845838815

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tilley

my new british cop to enjoy

Reviewed in Australia on 21 June 2015

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A new lady cop to watch and enjoy a true life british cop with both her personel and job lives, with all her feelings.

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Andrew-c Fraser

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2020

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This is the first Priscilla Masters book that I have read,it was well written and a first class story,Joanna pierce came across as very believable.l read it in 2 days and will certainly be reading more of her books.

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Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2017

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This is one heck of an author! My wife just loves all her books so we would definitely recommend this book- keeps you in suspense right till the end

Dusty

A brilliant first crime novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2004

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Priscilla Masters has crafted a very convincing detective in DI Joanna Piercy, together with a setting and plot that held my attention and left me wanting more.
Marilyn Smith is definitely not a nice nurse, and several people have good reason to want her dead. The suspects are believable, and the way in which their lives have intertwined with Marilyn's make this a real page-turner.
The medical details are accurate, as one would expect from an author who is also a nurse. Joanna Piercy comes across as a detective with a real future. I very much hope so - I look forward to reading more of her.

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moira darby

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2015

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A great read

Miki101.Micha 🐭

The debut of Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy - a...,

Reviewed in Italy on 5 December 2015

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...battle against all male prejudice You can imagine.
This police procedural has been written in 1996, the first of a series about a female DI in - in those times - a wholly male dominion. Jokes about her private life - single, but the mistress of a married doctor - are mostly harmless. More disturbing is working with her colleague Mike Karpinsky, neither him nor his dear wifey very content to have to cope with a "marriage-buster". And when a nurse with a very dark and venomous character is found dead in her bed, obviously all made up for a very intimate guest, everyone seems baffled - at first. But the chitty-chatty about the financial resources of the nurse are leading to one solution only - that some blackmailed man has lost his temper and finally finished her. But an obvious cause of death is lacking, even the pathologist seems at the end of his wits. But DI Piercy is very determinated to solve the mystery...
Author Priscilla Masters is a nurse herself, and she knows the right terms and what she is writing about. It is more riddles than suspense. The series about DI Joanna Piercy has arrived at 11 books - and no end in sight :-) ...
You like an old-fashioned police procedural, which lacks all the modern technique in crime detection and is interested in the evolution of the characters? I say - read it. I have also literally devoured the following two crime stories for now, and can say, this series is very evolving into something very interesting. And I will continue with the private and professional adventures of DI Piercy.
But... as I wrote - all in THIS crime story happened in 1996.

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