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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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File size : 3830 KB
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Print length : 244 pages
Publisher : Telos Publishing Ltd (21 April 2014)
Language: : English
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
Page numbers source ISBN : 1845838815
ASIN : B00JUJ33Z6
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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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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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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2015

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A great read

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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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onlyolney

Winding up the serpent? What does that mean?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2010

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This would have been an interesting story - and indeed, was a clever plot - had the central character not been so mundane, almost nasty, and certainly not sympathetic. I found myself thinking 'Oh, come on, get on with it!' more than once, and found myself feeling angry every time the focus moved back to her. I can't recommend Priscilla Master's novels as a result, and shan't be reading her again. This is such a pity, as good police procedurals, especially those set in the UK, are as rare as hen's teeth, and normally I welcome them with ardour, devour them greedily, and long for more. Shame.

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