Embroidering Shrouds [electronic resource] : Joanna Piercy Series, Book 6
Masters, Priscilla2012
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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 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 neighbours 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 co-operate with her enquiries. Slowly, aided by her colleague Mark Korpanski, Joanna unravels a mystery—the tangled threads of which are rooted years in the past.
Main title:
Embroidering Shrouds [electronic resource] : Joanna Piercy Series, Book 6 / Priscilla Masters
Author:
Masters, Priscilla, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : AudioGo Limited, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Joanna Piercy
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Priscilla Masters was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, the third of seven multi-racial children adopted by an orthopaedic surgeon and his Classics graduate wife. Brought up in South Wales, she moved to Birmingham in the late 60s to train as a nurse. After living in the Staffordshire Moorlands she wrote a children's book, Mr Bateman's Garden, a fantasy adventure set in the gardens of Biddulph Grange. In 1991 she began working as a practice nurse in Leek which is where the seven Detective Inspector Joanna Piercey novels are based. In 1998 she moved to Shropshire with her husband, a GP in the Potteries. Priscilla is also the author of three medical mysteries dealing with such diverse subjects as the blurred line between sanity and insanity, the arrogance of a surgeon and the vulnerability of a woman GP. Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, who famously stayed in Ruyton-XI-Towns when he was a medical student, Agatha Chrisitie and Ruth Rendell she now works as a nurse in Shrewsbury, a town which inspires her every bit as much as Leek.
ISBN:
9781471311420
Language:
English
BRN:
2764246
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