Priscilla Masters Knihy

Podobně jako ve svém předchozím románu Fatální řez líčí britská autorka Priscilla Mastersová příběh lékařky, která se vydává na stopu zločinu… Harriet Lamontová je povolána k případu Reubena Carnfortha, starého muže, který žije na kraji lesa. Při přepravě do nemocnice ji umírající Reuben požádá o pomoc: před deseti lety se mu ztratila šestiletá vnučka a Reuben nyní po lékařce chce, aby její zmizení objasnila. Když se nedlouho poté definitivně rozpadá lékařčino manželství, pomáhá jí k překonání životní krize zaujetí pro záhadný úkol, který před ni předestřel Reuben. S neodbytnou představou ztraceného děvčátka bloudícího v lese se pouští do pátrání po dívce - a po jejím vrahovi… ... celý text

Napínavý thriller z nemocničního prostředí budete číst jedním dechem do poslední stránky... V areálu nemocnice bylo nalezeno mrtvé tělo. Pitva prokázala násilnou smrt a posmrtný chirurgický zákrok. Vyšetřováním je pověřen inspektor David Forrest. K hrůze všech jde pouze o první ze série činů masového vraha, který má podivnou zálibu v práci chirurgů a přes snahu policistů i povolaného soudního psychiatra stále uniká. Proč záhadný "chirurg" operuje své oběti poté, co je usmrtí? Co o tom ví patoložka Karys Harperová?... celý text

Annabelle Bellange and her friend Dorothée left Paris for a summer hitchhiking holiday in England, but the only contact from them has been a postcard sent three months ago. DI Joanna Piercy investigates, and must answer two important questions: what is the anxious bed-and-breakfast owner trying to hide, and where are Annabelle and Dorothée?

Set in the medieval town of Shrewsbury, this is the third in the compelling ‘Martha Gunn’ series - 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 to be a new born, deceased for over five years and, despite the mysterious woman’s protestations that it is called ‘poppy’,  most certainly a boy. As always coroner Martha Gunn reserves judgement until she is able to get to the bottom of the case.

A tragic car crash leads to a young girl going missing near the legendary Devil's Chair. Can coroner Martha Gunn and DI Alex Randall sift through fact and fiction, folklore and reality to uncover the truth?

Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho. He has been labelled by the press, by his classmates and most of all by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone that the police question as a sporty, funny and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum.

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 post mortem, Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. As a newcomer and a woman in this remote moorland town, she must battle against long-held prejudices in her determination to find the killer. But could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith's death was not murder after all ...? 'It's Masters' first novel and a cracking start to her career in literary crime' - Daily Express

'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 abducted? Briefly admitted to the same hospital after a road accident, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy finds herself having to cope with not only a broken arm but also a murder investigation and the arrival of a senior officer from the Regional Crime Squad. Superintendent Karen Pugh thinks there is a contract killer at work - but who, in the small town of Leek, could have hired him? 'Clear and well-crafted story-telling that pulled me in right from the start ... I'm so glad that these books will get a wider audience.' - Ann Cleeves The fourth of Telos Publishing's reissues of noted British crime author Priscilla Masters' Joanna Piercy mystery series

A young woman is pushing a child in a stroller dangerously close to the edge of a rock face. She has blood on her clothes. Is she a victim or a would-be killer? DI Joanna Piercy takes on the case, but the young woman is mute. As the questions mount, forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget is called in to help. Can she persuade the woman to talk?

Jennifer Lomax is twenty-one, but she's already taken some hard knocks in life. So when widower Steven Taverner asks her to marry him, she's desperate to believe she's found true love . . . but she knows something's not right about her relationship with Steven. Is her desperation to escape one life about to lead her to a much darker place?