Priscilla Masters, Author . Allison & Busby $9.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0587-0
The sixth book in Masters's Joanna Piercy mystery series (Winding Up the Serpent, etc.) is as subdued as its small-town setting and contemplative heroine, but readers more intrigued by police procedure than pulse-racing suspense will delight in...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8006-2
In chapter one of Masters's gripping third mystery featuring intuitive, no-nonsense coroner Martha Gunn (after 2007's Slip Knot), a middle-aged woman, Alice Sedgewick, brings in the desiccated remains of an infant boy to the Royal Shrewsbury...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8109-0
In Masters’s solid 10th Joanna Piercy mystery (after 2009’s Grave Stones), the Staffordshire detective inspector faces three challenges: a disciplinary hearing, her fast approaching wedding day, and the near death and possible rape of 14-year-old...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8199-1
An arsonist’s torching of a “lovely old house” in the quiet village of Melverley ignites Masters’s psychologically complex fourth mystery featuring Shrewsbury coroner Martha Gunn (after 2011’s Frozen Charlotte). Three members of the Barton family...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8304-9
In British author Masters’s well-paced 11th Joanna Piercy mystery (after 2012’s A Velvet Scream), the newlywed detective inspector faces two professional challenges: her exasperation with the nuisance calls from Timony Weeks, a child TV star in the...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8389-6
In Masters’s tepid fifth procedural featuring Martha Gunn (after 2012’s Smoke Alarm), the Shrewsbury coroner once again proves essential in helping Det. Insp. Alex Randall solve a baffling case. Following a drunken argument, Tracy Walsh leaves her...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8461-9
The Staffordshire moorlands provide the atmospheric backdrop for British author Masters’s briskly paced 12th procedural featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2013’s The Final Curtain). Cécile Bellange, a French divorcée who lives outside Paris,...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8527-2
Early in Masters’s gripping sixth Martha Gunn mystery (after 2014’s The Devil’s Chair), the gatekeeper at Moreton Corbet Castle, an English Heritage site in Shropshire, discovers while inspecting the castle’s grounds a homeless man with his throat...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8598-2
Psychiatrist Claire Roget, the heroine of this middling series debut from British author Masters (Recalled to Death and five other Martha Gunn mysteries), is unsettled when she receives an invitation from Jerome Barclay, “one of her more worrying”...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8666-8
Early in British author Masters’s tantalizing 13th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2015’s Guilty Waters), Eve Glover phones the Leek, Staffordshire, police station to report that her financial-adviser husband, Jadon, is three hours
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8752-8
British author Masters’s plodding second Claire Roget mystery (after 2016’s Dangerous Minds) finds the forensic psychiatrist working at the Greatbach Secure Psychiatric Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, where she’s evaluating the emotional state of two...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8838-9
Coroner Martha Gunn and Det. Insp. Alex Randall have a solid working relationship, though their personal friendship is a bit trickier, as shown in Masters’s unsettling and underwhelming seventh mystery set in Shrewsbury, England (after 2015’s...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8940-9
British author Masters’s well-plotted 14th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2017’s Crooked Street) finds Joanna heavily pregnant with her first child and unhappy at being assigned to investigate 96-year-old Zachary Foster’s...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9082-5
British author Masters’s gripping third Claire Roget mystery (after 2018’s The Deceiver) centers on Jonah Kobi (aka the School Girl Killer), who was sentenced to life in prison after confessing to murdering three girls between 2012 and 2015. In 2013,
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5083-6
At the outset of British author Masters’s meticulously constructed 15th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2019’s Blood on the Rocks), a hiker, who’s out for his habitual walk on the Staffordshire moors, is stunned to see a young...
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Priscilla Masters. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0983-2
This appealing series launch from British author Masters (the Priscilla Piercy series) introduces good-hearted nurse Florence Shaw, who has befriended an elderly patient, widow Nora Selleck, in the market town of Stone. Florence becomes alarmed when
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