Joanna Piercy is faced with investigating a growing number of attacks on elderly woman which are starting to form a pattern, Is there a gang in the area targetting women who live on their own Joanna is concerned that the attacks might escalate into murder and when an elderly woman is attacked and killed in her own home she is afraid her forebodings have taken on a life of their own.
The murder investigations reveals links with the past as well as revealing that the corpse was very far from being a likeable individual when she was alive.
The remaining members of her family seem to have plenty of secrets which they are very reluctant to share with Joanna and her team,
This is an interesting and well written police procedural crime novel set in and around the town of Leek, I have read others in the series and I'm never sure whether I completely like Joanna herself, She is clearly good at her job but her private life seems to be conducted with an element of childish petulance at times which I find slightly irritating, That said, the plot kept me reading and I did not work out what was going on until very close to the end of the book,
If you enjoy crime novels with interesting plots and believable motivations then give this series a try they can be read in any order, Deliciously Grisly and Human to the Depths
Oh, this was fun! Every character was a complex and conflicted human with secrets to be revealed, I could read this again just to track the authors artistry, The mysteries were so unconnected and confusing at the beginning, but in the last pages all the pieces fit, Brava! Back to the wonderful Joanna I feel like i'm meeting old friends now when i read these novels, This one was as wonderful as always, Priscilla writes an excellent novel that always leaves you guessing till the end and utterly captures your interest while reading, I can't wait to read the next : My favorite of the series so far, The characters have grown, matured, and settled into their
lives, The murders both parallel their personal lives and urge them along the path to resolution,
My only problem was that I was sure of the murderer's identity as soon as she/he was introduced, But, as in the best of mysteries, it is not the solution that holds us till the end, but the story, engrossing murder
Unpacking the motives of the local people in order to get to the murderer, Very analytical yet compassionate. A great read. A fine murder mystery. Detective Joanna Piercy is slowly being accepted by the others in her department, In this story she must work hard to put all the clues together and figure out if all the crimes against old ladies are linked, Why have the thieves turned to murder The victim is not a pleasant person though, so does her demeaner have something to do with it 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 process of embroidering, Why have the robbers killed this time When Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy begins her investigation she is surprised to find that the victims next door neighbour is Nan's brother and is even more shocked to discover that the pair have not spoken for years.
With the aid of her colleagues, Joanna unravels a mystery the tangled threads of which a rooted years in the past, a nice engaging who done it with some great tangible characters and a good twist Generally ok, For a book like this in a generally rural setting, I think it needs to bring in more of the local environment to reach a higher level, This series is set in the Peak District, one of the more interesting in England, but except for the first book you wouldn't know it, Hard To Guess Conclusion
Priscilla Masters is well named, She is a masterful writer and I really enjoy reading her books, I was genuinely surprised. The one criticism I have is that she doesnt wind up the threads to my satisfaction, Id like to have known what happened to everyone else, Priscilla Masters writing career started inwhen she published Mr, Batemans Garden, a childrens book set in Biddulph Grange Gardens belonging to the National Trust, After that she created Inspector Joanna Piercy and has now also written a number of Medical Mysteries, Priscilla Masters lives in Shropshire, England, She works part time in Staffordshire as a practice nurse, Priscilla Masters' writing career started inwhen she published Mr, Bateman's Garden, a children's book set in Biddulph Grange Gardens belonging to the National Trust, After that she created Inspector Joanna Piercy and has now also written a number of Medical Mysteries, Priscilla Masters lives in Shropshire, England, She works part time in Staffordshire as a practice nurse, sitelink.