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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012, 1997., AudioGO Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Joanna Piercy series   Volume: Book 4.Summary Note: ''Jonathan Selkirk - Make Your Will.''Hours after opening this letter, high-powered solicitor Jonathan Selkirk is in hospital recovering from a suspected heart attack. Later that night he disappears. DI Joanna is at the scene and becomes involved in the mystery. Has Selkirk discharged himself or been abducted? Two days later a body is discovered and Joanna not only has to cope with a murder investigation but the arrival of the Regional Crime Squad. The formidable Superintendent Karen Pugh thinks there is a contract killer at work - but who, in the market town of Leek, could have hired him?Show more Show less.
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      By Masters, Priscilla  OverDrive, Inc
       2012., AudioGO Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Joanna Piercy mysteries.Summary Note: 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 body is scarred by cigarette burns, his hands tattooed and clothes scruffy but he is wearing expensive Reebok trainers and a solid gold ring on his left hand, monogrammed AL, which belonged to the local MP who had been dead for over a year Who is he? And who is the mysterious old woman who watched his body burn?.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2014., Severn House Publishers Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy, up the remote Burway in the early hours of the morning, tragically loses control of her car and crashes into the valley below.Tracey is rushed to hospital, but where is Daisy? She has vanished, provoking an intense police search of the area around the Devil's Chair, land that is rife with legends and strange stories of witchcraft, sorcery and unexplained disappearances. Detective Inspector Alex Randall, the senior investigating officer, soon admits to coroner Martha Gunn that he is baffled by the case.
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      By Masters, Priscilla  OverDrive, Inc
       2014., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: From her surgery window Dr. Megan Banesto watches as the body of Bianca Rhys is dragged from the local pond; a paranoid schizophrenic famed for her outrageous claims and stories, her death doesnœt come as a surprise to the local community. Soon after, when a ten-year-old child goes missing, Megan begins to wonder if Biancaœs scandalous statements about disappearances from the village were really the truth rather than symptoms of her disease. Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small Welsh mining town, Disturbing Ground is a gripping novel that seeks to find the truth about the shifting boundary between sanity and insanity.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012., AudioGO Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Joanna Piercy mysteries.Summary Note: A spate of robberies targeting elderly women is disturbing enough, but especially so in a town as peaceful and sedate as Leek. Then one attack turns to murder, and Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy is called to the eerily named Spite Hall.The body of Nan Lawrence has been found bludgeoned to death, lying over the tapestry she was in the process of embroidering. But what could have made the robbers move from simple theft to murder?When Joanna calls on Nan's neighbors she is surprised to find that they are none other than the old lady's estranged brother and his teenage grandson, neither of whom seem particularly willing to cooperate with her enquiries.Slowly, aided by her colleague Mark Korpanski, Joanna unravels a mystery--the threads of which are rooted in the past.
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      By Masters, Priscilla  OverDrive, Inc
       2013., Severn House Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: A DI Joanna Piercy mystery.Summary Note: Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants deal with on her return to work is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents. The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a sixties' child star in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who lives in an isolated farmhouse. Is she putting on an act and wasting police time, or is someone really trying to frighten her? Joanna is dubious, but as events become even more creepy and disturbing, her instinct tells her something is not right. What is Timony hiding? As she digs into her past, Joanna discovers a shocking secret. It seems that someone may have sinister intentions towards Timony after all...
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: 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. But having been sold a rural idyll, the residents of the estate quickly realise that they do not like Grimshaw's old farm building - surely such an eyesore will mean their properties will depreciate in value? And so the war begins ... each inhabitant with his or her own reason for wanting Grimshaw to move away. What none of the residents.
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      By Masters, Priscilla  OverDrive, Inc.
       c2015., Severn House Publishers. Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but it's now September and the only contact from them is a postcard sent from the picturesque setting of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire three months ago. Meanwhile, in England, brothers Martin and James Stuart find a note from two French girls, inviting the finder to meet them at Rudyard Lake. Their enquiries lead them to Mandalay, an upmarket guesthouse where the girls stayed just before their disappearance, and its owner, the creepy peeping tom, Mr Barker. Arriving in England, Cécile Bellange meets Detective Joanna Piercy, who is looking into the girls' disappearance. Soon Joanna must answer two important questions: what is the anxious Mr Barker trying so desperately to hide, and where are Annabelle and Dorothée?.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2014., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: 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?.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2013., Allison & Busby Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: Callum Hughes has been labeled a killer and a psycho. He has been labeled by the press, by his classmates and most of all by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labeled a victim. He is described by everyone that the police question as an athletic, funny and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum. At least, that??'s what his friends and family are saying.But things are rarely so black and white.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012., Adult, Severn House Publishers Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: A deadly fire reunites coroner Martha Gunn with Detective Inspector Alex Randall. When firemen are called to an intense blaze at the Grange in Melverley, they find the bodies of Christie Barton, her daughter, Adelaide, and father-in-law, William, along with evidence that suggests the fire was started deliberately. Detective Inspector Alex Randall enlists the help of coroner Martha Gunn, but the puzzle deepens with a second house fire - the occupant, retired nurse Monica Deverill, is missing. Where is she, and what links the two fires? The answers lie in a secret buried in the past.
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      By Masters, Priscilla
       2012., Severn House Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: A DI Joanna Piercy mystery.Summary Note: On a snowy December morning, a young woman is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Half dead from the cold, she says she has been raped. As Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, fresh from a disciplinary action, investigates, she learns that Kayleigh Harrison has made unsubstantiated allegations before against her stepfather. But there are possible links to a similar rape case six months previously . . . Is there a real case to investigate or not? Kayleigh holds the key, but how much of her story can be trusted?.
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      By Masters, Priscilla  OverDrive, Inc
       2012., AudioGO Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Joanna Piercy mysteries.Summary Note: DI 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, DI Pierce is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. As a newcomer and a woman in the remote moorland town, Piercy 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 ?.