Il percorso letterario di Priscilla Masters è iniziato con la sua prima pubblicazione nel 1987, portando alla creazione dell'accattivante ispettrice Joanna Piercy e di una serie di intriganti Misteri Medici. Il suo lavoro approfondisce le complessità dell'esperienza umana e dell'indagine, offrendo acute intuizioni sulle motivazioni dei personaggi e sull'intricato sviluppo della trama. Masters ha un talento distintivo nel creare narrazioni avvincenti che mantengono i lettori coinvolti fino alla fine, dimostrando la sua abilità di narratrice.
Annabelle Bellange and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but the only contact from them has been a postcard sent three months ago. DI Joanna Piercy investigates, and must answer two important questions: what is the anxious bed-and-breakfast owner trying to hide, and where are Annabelle and Dorothée?
Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling ‘Martha Gunn’ series - When a woman arrives in A and E clutching a child in a pink blanket, Martha Gunn is not quite ready to make the discovery that the evening has in store for her. The baby is dead, and not only that, it has been mummified. Post mortem reveals the child to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman’s protestations that it is called ‘poppy’, most certainly a boy. As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.
A tragic car crash leads to a young girl going missing near the legendary Devil's Chair. Can coroner Martha Gunn and DI Alex Randall sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality to uncover the truth?
Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho. He has been labelled by the press, by his classmates and most of all by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone that the police question as a sporty, funny and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum.
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
'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
A young woman is pushing a child in a stroller dangerously close to the edge of a rock face. She has blood on her clothes. Is she a victim or a would-be killer? DI Joanna Piercy takes on the case, but the young woman is mute. As the questions mount, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is called in to help. Can she persuade the woman to talk?
Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she's already taken some hard knocks in life. So when widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she's desperate to believe she's found true love . . . but she knows something's not right about her relationship with Steven. Is her desperation to escape one life about to lead her to a much darker place?
Jakob Grimshaw has eked out a precarious living as a Staffordshire moorland farmer by selling off some of his land to Gabriel Frankwell, a local businessman, who seized the opportunity to build a select development of nine houses, the Prospect Farm Estate.
A desperate phone call from an old acquaintance plunges forensic psychiatrist Claire Roget into an explosive situation with echoes in her own past. Forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget finds it impossible to refuse when she receives a desperate phone call from an old acquaintance, obstetrician Charles Tissot. One of his patients, Heather Kimble, alleges that Tissot seduced her at a party and that he is the father of her unborn child. His career on the line, Charles begs Claire to expose Heather's fragile mental state and discredit her wild claims. With a history of making similar false allegations, her two previous babies having suffered unexplained cot deaths, Heather's accusations would appear to be nothing more than the result of a damaged mind. But as Claire delves further, it becomes clear that Charles hasn't been telling her the whole truth. Could Heather's story possibly have some merit? And is her unborn child in danger