Published by Severn House
7 January 2025
Book 16 in the Joanna Piercy series
Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy's joy at her close colleague Detective Sergeant Mike Korpanski's return to work is short-lived. Elderly Joseph Holden has been taken hostage in his secluded mansion overlooking Rudyard Lake by an armed intruder. And the hostage taker insists he will only speak to her.
With just a four-day hostage negotiation course under her belt, Joanna is feeling the heat. How does the hostage taker know her name? What does he want? As the questions multiply and Rudyard Lake is sealed off by an armed response unit, Joanna is about to discover that the roots of this shocking event lie deeply buried in a terrible crime - a crime that happened far away and many years ago . . .
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. There are now fifteen books in the series.
She has also written several medical standalones and a series set in Shrewsbury,
featuring coroner Martha Gunn. Her most recent series features Dr Claire Roget
who is a forensic psychiatrist who has some very unpredictable patients. http://www.priscillamasters.co.uk/
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