4 Mach 2002.
ISBN: 978-0-74900582-5 (HB)
Dr Megan Banesto is a GP in the Welsh village in which she grew up. When one of her patients Bianca Rhys is found dead in a local pool, Megan is perplexed by the manner of her death, as Bianca was terrified of water and would not have vebtured near the pool. However, the police do not share Megan’s reservations of the manner of Bianca’s death.
As the investigating officer, one Alun Williams is a former boyfriend of Megan’s she finds it difficult to contact him as freely as she once would have done to discuss the case. For he is now happily married, whereas her failed marriage is common knowledge in the village.
Although Megan is well aware that Bianca was a paranoid schizophrenic, she is troubled by the nature of her death and when she inadvertently becomes the recipient of several boxes of Bianca’s belongings, which provide weird reading, she begins to question whether Bionca’s supposed ramblings were just ramblings.
Priscilla Masters always provides a fascinating story, but this one gives
one cause to wonder, maybe this happens. When you have read the book, not a
comforting thought.
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Reviewer: Lizzie
Hayes
Priscilla Masters was born in Halifax, and brought
up in South Wales, one of seven multi-racial children adopted by an orthopaedic
surgeon and his Classics graduate wife. Priscilla trained as a registered nurse
in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. She moved to Staffordshire in the
1970s, had an antiques business for a while and two sons. She started writing
in the 1980s in response to an aunt asking her what she was going to do with her
life! Winding up the Serpent was her
first Joanna Piercy story, published in 1995.
Although that series is still continuing the latest Crooked Street published 2016, she has also written several medical
standalones and a new series featuring coroner Martha Gunn, set in Shrewsbury.
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