Priscilla Masters

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1995
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Joanna Piercy

1 - Killer on the Moors (Jun-2022)
2 - Burnt on the Moors (Jun-2022)
3 - Frozen on the Moors (Jun-2022)
4 - Kidnap on the Moors (Aug-2022)
5 - Missing on the Moors (Aug-2022)
6 - Murder on the Moors (Aug-2022)
7 - HIDDEN ON THE MOORS (Oct-2022)
8 - STALKER ON THE MOORS (Oct-2022)
9 - REVENGE ON THE MOORS (Oct-2022)

Dr. Claire Roget

1 - Dangerous Minds (Jun-2016)
2 - The Deceiver (Feb-2018)
3 - A Game of Minds (Jan-2021)
4 - An Imperfect Truth (Oct-2023)

A Florence Shaw Mystery

1 - Undue Influence (Jan-2023)

A Joanna Piercy Mystery

1 - Winding Up the Serpent (Aug-1995)
2 - Catch the Fallen Sparrow (1996)
3 - A Wreath for My Sister (1997)
4 - And None Shall Sleep (1997)
5 - Scaring Crows (1999)
6 - Embroidering Shrouds (Sep-2002)
7 - Endangering Innocents (Jun-2003)
8 - Wings Over the Watcher (Jun-2006)
9 - Grave Stones (Nov-2009)
10 - A Velvet Scream (Feb-2012)
11 - The Final Curtain (Aug-2013)
12 - Guilty Waters (Mar-2015)
13 - Crooked Street (Feb-2017)
14 - Blood on the Rocks (Aug-2019)
15 - Almost a Whisper (Feb-2022)
16 - Bloodline (Jan-2025)

Martha Gunn

1 - River Deep (Apr-2004)
2 - Slip Knot (Jul-2007)
3 - Frozen Charlotte (May-2011)
4 - Smoke Alarm (Nov-2012)
5 - The Devil's Chair (Aug-2014)
6 - Recalled to Death (Oct-2015)
7 - Bridge of Sighs (Feb-2019)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Winding Up the Serpent

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 1

    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...

  • Catch the Fallen Sparrow

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    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 2

    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 ...

  • And None Shall Sleep

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    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 4

    '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 a...

  • A Wreath for My Sister

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    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 3

    Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and spindly high heels. It is cold, very cold, as a snowstrom sweeps the moor - but Sharon doesn't feel the cold... Neither does Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, for she is fending off Randall Pel...

  • Scaring Crows

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    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 5

    There was a hole in his chest. A big hole. A quick glance showed exposed flesh and bone, red gore. It had been an accurate shot. Truck driver Dave Shackleton senses that all is not well at Hardacre farm when he arrives to collect the morning's milk. ...

  • Night Visit

    “It is always a joy to discover a new crime writer with a sure touch and the capacity to shock.” -- Peter Lovesey

    “Priscilla Masters is fast establishing herself as a highly regarded novelist in the detective story genre.” -- Staffo...

  • A Fatal Cut

    ‘His patient was ready. He stood for a moment, staring down at her, his mind working out the correct incision. Then the first cut...’A body has been discovered in undergrowth in the grounds of Birmingham hospital, wrapped in a clinical waste bag ...

  • Disturbing Ground

    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 doesn’t come as a surprise to the local community. Soon aft...

  • Embroidering Shrouds

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 6

    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 DI Joanna Piercy is called to the eerily named Spite Hall. The body of Nan Lawrence...



  • Endangering Innocents

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 7

    Something is amiss at a small primary school in the village of Horton. A local man, Joshua Baldwin, has been sitting in his car outside the school watching the children as they play. So DI Joanna Piercy is called out to investigate. She meets with th...

  • River Deep

    Martha Gunn - 1

    Over the years, the residents of Shrewsbury have become used to the occasional flood - living close to the River Severn, it comes as no surprise. But the latest deluge stirs up more than just mud and silt, and the locals are horrified by what comes f...

  • A Plea of Insanity

    On a late summer Monday, Doctor Claire Roget takes up her new post of clinical psychiatrist at Greatbach Secure Psychiatrist Unit in the Midlands city of Stoke on Trent. Six months earlier, her predecessor Heidi Faro was brutally murdered in her offi...

  • Wings Over the Watcher

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 8

    In separate locations in Leek, Staffordshire, three separate tableaux are being performed. DI Joanna Piercy is writing to her lover Matthew to try and explain recent events; her sikekick Mike Korpanski is filling in his insurance form after his wife ...

  • Slip Knot

    Martha Gunn - 2

    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...

  • The Watchful Eye

    Dr. Daniel Gregory is a GP in a picturesque Mid-Staffordshire market town. Divorced and denied visiting rights to his seven year-old daughter, he is lonely and vulnerable to the dysfunctional behavior of some of the locals.Like Vanda Struel, a single...

  • Buried in Clay

    1787 " A man hastily puts the finishing touches to his beloved jug as police descend upon him. Arrest him and hang him. Almost two centuries later, the same jug reappears, but where has it dwelt since the fatal day of its creator? And what is the m...

  • Grave Stones

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 9

    Jakob Grimshaw has eked out a precarious living as a Staffordshire moorland farmer by selling off some of his land to Gabriel Frank, a local businessman, who seized the opportunity to build a select development of nine houses, the Prospect Farm Estat...

  • Frozen Charlotte

    Martha Gunn - 3

    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...

  • A Velvet Scream

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 10

    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 Kayleig...



  • Mr. Bateman's Garden

    When Gulliver Thornton and his sister, Charlotte, climb the Great Wall of China into the gardens of Biddulph Grange; they enter an enchanted world ruled by the evil ape Thoth. Follow their adventures through an ancient tomb of Egypt, a Scottish Gl...

  • Smoke Alarm

    Martha Gunn - 4

    A deadly fire reunites coroner Martha Gunn with Detective Inspector Alex Randall in the fourth book in this successful series. When firemen are called to an intense blaze at the Grange in Melverley, they find the bodies of Christie Barton, her d...

  • The Final Curtain

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 11

    A former child soap star needs Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy’s help " are her claims real-life drama or just an act? Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants deal with on her return to work is n...

  • The Devil's Chair

    Martha Gunn - 5

    DI Alex Randall and coroner Martha Gunn search for a missing child, but their investigation is compromised by local superstitions and beliefs In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh d...

  • Guilty Waters

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 12

    The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot signals a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy. Cécile Bellange is a worried mother. Her eighteen-year-old daughter Annabelle and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a s...

  • Recalled to Death

    Martha Gunn - 6

    Coroner Martha Gunn is baffled by the discovery of an unidentified body in the ruins of a local beauty spot. On a bright spring morning, John Hyde opens the gates to the grounds of Moreton Corbet Castle, a local medieval ruin, and discovers the bo...

  • Dangerous Minds

    Dr. Claire Roget - 1

    Can a psychiatrist prevent a crime when it exists only in a patient’s mind? When she receives a wedding invitation from one of her former patients, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is more than a little alarmed. Highly intelligent and manip...

  • Crooked Street

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 13

    Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy investigates the disappearance of a young husband -- and discovers all is not as it seems. Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails to re...

  • The Deceiver

    Dr. Claire Roget - 2

    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 ...

  • Bridge of Sighs

    Martha Gunn - 7

    Two violent suicides leave Coroner Martha Gunn with some disturbing questions to answer -- but the most difficult one of all lies closer to home... Gina Marconi was a beautiful young barrister with everything to live for -- a loving fiancé, a yo...



  • Blood on the Rocks

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 14

    DI Joanna Piercy is not happy when she’s assigned the apparently minor case of finding a missing elderly man, but it turns out to be far more sinister . . . DI Joanna Piercy is irritated at what she perceives to be an attempt to wrap her up in cot...

  • A Game of Minds

    Dr. Claire Roget - 3

    A missing girl. A dark secret. Dr Claire Roget is drawn into a deadly game to find the truth behind a young girl's disappearance in this chilling mystery. It's been six years since fourteen-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing - six long years for ...

  • The Subsequent Wife

    She’s not the first. Will she live to be the last? Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she’s already taken some hard knocks in life. So when older, reserved and enigmatic widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she’s desperate to believ...

  • Almost a Whisper

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 15

    A young woman with a pushchair spotted teetering on the edge of a steep rock face on the Staffordshire moors draws Joanna Piercy into a disturbing new case. A young woman is moving dangerously close to the edge of the rock face, pushing a stroller w...

  • Burnt on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 2

    Please note this book was previously published as Catch the Fallen Sparrow.It's a cold, grey morning when soldiers on an exercise drill find a smouldering body up on the moors.The body is scarred by cigarette burns, the hands covered in tattoos and t...

  • Frozen on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 3

    Please note this book was previously published as A Wreath for My Sister. A young woman frozen on the moors. A mother who never came home. A third woman in danger. Sharon Priest is on the moors in a flimsy red dress and high heels, but as a snowstorm...

  • Killer on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 1

    Please note this book was previously published as Winding up the Serpent.It's Detective Joanna Piercy's first day back at work after her promotion. You could cut the tension with a knife. The rest of the team are more than a little bit jealous.But th...

  • Kidnap on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 4

    A missing lawyer. A strangled nurse. A killer that DI Joanna Piercy must track down before they strike again.Jonathan Selkirk is a ruthless, powerful lawyer. He thinks he's untouchable. Until he receives a letter.'JONATHAN SELKIRK, MAKE YOUR WILL.'It...

  • Missing on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 5

    A dead farmer.His son killed too.A massive search to find the missing daughter.There's a sweltering heatwave in Staffordshire. DI Joanna Piercy arrives at a quiet stone farmhouse on the highest, most remote part of the moor to find a gruesome scene.A...

  • Murder on the Moors

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 6

    It's the milkman who notices something is wrong at Nan Lawrence's house. The old lady always leaves her empties on the step.Peeking through the curtains, he sees Nan's body on the floor. There's blood spatter all over the tapestry she was embroiderin...



  • HIDDEN ON THE MOORS

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 7

    Something is amiss at the local village school.A man is seen lingering outside the gates - and parents and teachers are getting worried . . .Joshua Baldwin doesn't think he's doing any harm. With no family of his own, he just gets a bit lonely.Piercy...

  • REVENGE ON THE MOORS

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 9

    Tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Spain, Detective Joanna Piercy is brought back to reality with a bump thanks to Staffordshire's appalling weather - and another dead body.It's local Leek resident Kathleen Weston who makes the gruesome discovery....

  • STALKER ON THE MOORS

    Detective Joanna Piercy - 8

    A missing woman.A jilted lover.A baffling murder.Beatrice Pennington lives a seemingly quiet life. Married and middle-aged, she's a part-time librarian and an enthusiastic member of Leek's cycling club.So when her husband Arthur turns up at the polic...

  • Undue Influence

    A Florence Shaw Mystery - 1

    Where's Nora Selleck? Nurse Florence Shaw investigates when a mysterious stranger walks into her patient's life - and then she disappears . . .Nurse Florence Shaw is worried about her patient and friend, elderly widow Nora Selleck. When she encounter...

  • An Imperfect Truth

    Dr. Claire Roget - 4

    Dr Claire Roget's patient may have told her last lie, but can the truth about her death be uncovered?Poppy Kelloway was a liar. Forensic psychiatric Claire Roget's patient made up 'facts' that damaged other families, destroyed relationships and even ...

  • The Quiet Woman

    Nurse Florence Shaw is baffled when a quiet patient dies in an apparent suicide pact with her husband. Can she uncover the truth behind this mysterious woman?Richard and Christine Clay have been married for decades. Their relationship has stood the t...

  • Bloodline

    A Joanna Piercy Mystery - 16

    Joanna Piercy must rescue an elderly man from a hostage situation that has chilling roots in the past in this enthralling mystery.Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy's joy at her close colleague Detective Sergeant Mike Korpanski's return to work is sho...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Priscilla Masters has published 46 books.

The next book by Priscilla Masters, Bloodline, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Priscilla Masters, Winding Up the Serpent, was published in August 1995.

Yes. Priscilla Masters has 5 series.
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