Priscilla Masters

Catch The Fallen Sparrow (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 2) 21/04/2014

by Priscilla Masters

$5.35

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy and her sergeant, Mike Korpanski, find themselves investigating the murder of a ten-year-old boy whose burning body is found beneath the Winking Man, a desolate outcrop from which nature has carved a human face.

The boy’s body is scarred by cigarette burns, his hands tattooed and clothes scruffy – but he is wearing expensive Reebok trainers and on his left hand a monogrammed solid gold ring that belonged to the local MP, who has been dead for over a year…

Who is the young victim? And who is the mysterious old woman who watched his body burn?

‘Hauntingly atmospheric’ – Peter Lovesey

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

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The Certificate (A Kindle Single) 06/06/2016

by Priscilla Masters

( 9 )

$3.99

‘Plain Jane’ Ziegler has been a district nurse all her life...

All her life, she has been overlooked by difficult patients, disinterested colleagues and even her own family.

So when she discovers a way to commit the perfect crime, Jane seizes the opportunity and begins deliberating who of her many patients is most deserving of her murderous attention.

And when elderly James Walsh tries one to many times to proposition her, Jane seizes her chance.

Although Walsh’s mother seems unconvinced by Jane’s explanation of his death, no one else, least of all Jane’s fellow doctors, seems the least bit surprised.

As the days past, she can’t help thinking that she may indeed have escaped suspicion.

Driven by this knowledge and with a new-found taste for murder, she soon turns her mind to her next victim.

However, when a formal complaint is made against her by bad-tempered Clara Blatter, it seems that she may have picked the wrong woman.

Soon, Jane finds herself under investigation and when she carries out her second murder, the net begins to close in tighter.

When her normally unassuming boss starts to become suspicious, Jane resorts to drastic measures to avoid detection, as her perfect crime quickly turns into a nightmare that could cost her everything.

The Certificate is a heart racing medical thriller that will leave you begging for more.

Praise for Priscilla Masters

‘A natural story-teller' - Robert Foster, bestselling author of The Lunar Code

‘It is always a joy to discover a crime writer with a sure touch and the capacity to shock’ - Peter Lovesey

‘More than a match for Rendell and Christie’ - Hampstead and Highgate Express

Priscilla Masters lives in Shropshire with her husband, a GP in the Potteries. Night Visit was the first of her medical mystery novels, followed by A Fatal Cut and Coming Home. She is also the author of the Joanna Piercy police series.

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Embroidering Shrouds (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 6) 17/12/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 8 )

$6.05

Joanna bent down to peer at the work, neatly done, evenly stitched in bright silk, and now spattered with blood. She read out the title: ‘Massacre of the Innocent’.

A spate of robberies targeting old women is disturbing enough, especially in a town as peaceful as Leek. But then DI Joanna Piercy is called to the eerily-named Spite Hall, where the elderly Nan Lawrence has been found bludgeoned to death over the tapestry she was embroidering. Have the robbers turned from simple theft to murder? Joanna is surprised to find that Nan’s near neighbours are her estranged brother and his grandson, neither of whom seems keen to co-operate. Slowly Joanna unravels a mystery – the tangled threads of which are rooted years in the past.

‘A crime writer with a sure touch and the ability to shock.’ – Peter Lovesey.

‘Joanna’s strong, independent personality drives the story and will carry readers to the novel’s sober yet satisfying denouement.’ – Publisher’s Weekly.

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

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And None Shall Sleep (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 4) 13/08/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 11 )

$5.38

‘Jonathan Selkirk – make your will.’

Hours after opening this letter, high-powered solicitor Jonathan Selkirk is in hospital recovering from a suspected heart attack. That night, he vanishes from his private room. Has he discharged himself? Or been abducted? Briefly admitted to the same hospital after a road accident, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy finds herself having to cope with not only a broken arm but also a murder investigation and the arrival of a senior officer from the Regional Crime Squad. Superintendent Karen Pugh thinks there is a contract killer at work – but who, in the small town of Leek, could have hired him?

‘Clear and well-crafted story-telling that pulled me in right from the start … I’m so glad that these books will get a wider audience.’ – Ann Cleeves

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

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Winding Up the Serpent (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 1) 21/04/2014

by Priscilla Masters

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$5.31

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

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Scaring Crows (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 5) 17/12/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 7 )

$6.05

There was a hole in his chest. A big hole. A quick glance showed exposed flesh and bone, red gore. It had been an accurate shot.

Truck driver Dave Shackleton senses that all is not well at Hardacre farm when he arrives to collect the morning’s milk. The cows are loose and the farmers nowhere to be seen … In the farmhouse, he discovers the bodies of Aaron Summers and his son Jack, killed with their own shotgun. Sweltering in a heatwave, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy is now faced with solving a double murder by person or persons unknown; and when she learns that Aaron also had a daughter, Ruthie, she sets in motion a massive search to find her – either alive or dead …

‘Clear and well-crafted storytelling that pulled me in right from the start. The atmosphere of the heatwave and the claustrophobic community was beautifully done, and the lack of sentimentality in the relationship between Joanna and [her boyfriend] Matthew was fresh and entirely credible.’ - Ann Cleeves.

‘A masterpiece of crime fiction … The plot – which unfolds like an origami model – is intricate, clear and faultless … Every page of this gripping mystery deserves to be savoured.’ – femaledetective.com.

‘More than a match for Rendell and Christie’ – Broadway Ham & High.

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

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Smoke Alarm (The Martha Gunn Mysteries Book 4) 01/11/2012

by Priscilla Masters

( 4 )

$14.28

A female coroner teams up with a British police detective to find the culprit behind a deadly fire . . .

When firemen are called to an intense blaze at the Grange in Melverley, England, they find the bodies of Christie Barton, her daughter, and her father-in-law, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. But evidence suggests that this was not a tragic accident related to the dead man’s dementia symptoms. These deaths appear to be deliberate.

Detective Inspector Alex Randall enlists the help of coroner Martha Gunn, but the puzzle deepens with a second house fire—the occupant, a retired nurse, is missing. Where is she, and what links the two fires? The answers lie in a secret buried in the past . . .

“Details of police procedure and the duties of a coroner frame a compelling story. In addition to the crime story, Masters also focuses on Martha’s personal life, as she slowly begins to learn more about her very private colleague Alex and begins to date again, fearing future loneliness as her children get ever closer to leaving home. A nice mix of mystery and human drama.” —Booklist

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Bridge of Sighs (A Martha Gunn Mystery Book 7) 01/02/2019

by Priscilla Masters

( 4 )

$12.45

Two violent suicides leave Coroner Martha Gunn with some disturbing questions to answer – but the most difficult one of all lies closer to home . . .

Gina Marconi was a beautiful young barrister with everything to live for – a loving fiancé, a young son and a successful career. So why did she leave her home in the middle of the night and drive her car into a stone wall?

Soon afterwards, Patrick Elson, a clever twelve-year-old schoolboy, jumps off a bridge on to the A5. The victims are unrelated, but neither suicide makes sense. Could there be a connection? Then there’s a third unexplained death: DI Alex Randall’s wife, Erica. With Alex on gardening leave pending an investigation, Martha must search for answers to the questions raised by the suicides on her own. Not only that, she must confront the most difficult question of all: could Alex Randall be a murderer?

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A Wreath For My Sister (Joanna Piercy Mystery Series Book 3) 13/08/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 10 )

$5.38

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy is at the annual Legal Ball, fending off solicitor Randall Pelham, who wants her to find his missing daughter Deborah. However, it is not Deborah but Sharon Priest who soon occupies Joanna’s mind. When the thaw sets in, Sharon’s frozen body is exposed on the moors; and its horrific injuries reveal that Joanna and her team have a shocking murder on their hands. And not just one, either …

‘Clear and well-crafted story-telling that pulled me in right from the start … I’m so glad that these books will get a wider audience.’ – Ann Cleeves

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

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River Deep (Martha Gunn) 28/03/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 13 )

$2.84

Over the years, the residents of Shrewsbury have become used to the occasional flood – living close to the River Severn, it comes as no surprise. But the latest deluge stirs up more than just mud and silt, and the locals are horrified by what comes floating to the surface…

Coroner Martha Gunn is one of the first called to the scene when a body is found floating in a flooded cottage. Martha’s instinct tells her that this is a homicide – a hunch borne out by the post mortem. The victim is presumed to be the cottage’s tenant, James Humphreys, who recently went missing. However, when asked to identify the body, his wife Cressida is adamant that it is not her husband. Martha is left with many perplexing questions. Who, then, is the real victim? Why has he been murdered? And where has the real Mr Humphreys gone?

A tense and gripping mystery, River Deep is the first in a series featuring the coroner Martha Gunn.

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Disturbing Ground 24/04/2014

by Priscilla Masters

( 8 )

$4.39

Dr Megan Banesto has returned to her childhood home in Llancloudy in the Welsh valleys. As the local GP, she feels she knows her patients well. So when the body of paranoid schizophrenic Bianca Rhys is dragged from a murky pool, Megan becomes suspicious. The official verdict is suicide but whey would someone afraid of water go near the pool?

Investigating officer PC Alun Williams happens to be Megan’s old flame and, rather than take the young GP seriously, he sees Megans’ interest in the case as simply a ruse to keep in contact with him. But as Megan discovers more about Bianca she becomes intrigued by the outlandish claims she used to make. What if Bianca was the only one who knew what was really going on in Llancloudy?

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The Final Curtain (The Joanna Piercy Mysteries Book 11) 12/08/2013

by Priscilla Masters

( 8 )

$13.19

“A particularly intriguing mystery” featuring a female police detective and a former child star with secrets to hide (Booklist).

Just back from her honeymoon, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy heads back to work in Staffordshire, England, and gets handed a case she can do without: nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents.

The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a child star of the sixties in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who now lives in an isolated farmhouse. It seems unlikely that someone is really moving her nightdress around or leaving a dead mouse in her bread box. Joanna is sure she’s putting on an act and wasting police time.

But as things escalate, something doesn’t feel right, and as Joanna digs into Timony’s past, she finds that the aging actress may be in danger after all . . .

“A solid police procedural especially likely to appeal to 1960s nostalgia buffs.” —Kirkus Reviews

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