Read Series: Di Joanna Piercy
by Author Priscilla Masters
Scaring Crows (2015)
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 -- ...
Embroidering Shrouds (2002)
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...
Wings Over The Watcher (2006)
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 ...
Endangering Innocents (2015)
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.
And None Shall Sleep (1997)
Jonathan Selkirk, known as a ruthless, powerful lawyer, receives a threatening letter advising him to make a will. Only hours later he is recovering in the Leek Cottage Hospital from a suspected heart attack. Late that night Selkirk mysteriously disappears.The discovery of a dead body two days la...
Catch The Fallen Sparrow (1998)
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.