Jakob Grimshaw has eked out a precarious living as a Staffordshire
moorland farmer by selling off some of his land to Gabriel
Frankwell, a local businessman, who seized the opportunity to build
a select development of nine houses, the Prospect Farm Estate.
But having been sold a rural idyll, the residents of the estate
quickly realise that they do not like Grimshaw's old farm building
Â- surely such an eyesore will mean their properties will depreciate
in value? And so the war begins . . . each inhabitant with his or
her own reason for wanting Grimshaw to move away. What none of the
residents realise is that the old farmer is neither simple nor
honest. When Grimshaw's body is discovered at the foot of his
boundary wall, his head crushed by one of the copestones, it is up
to DI Joanna Piercy to unravel the events leading up to his death.
But Joanna has worries of her own in her personal life and the last
thing she needs on her desk is a gruesome murder investigation . . .
Born in Yorkshire and brought up in South Wales, Priscilla
Masters is the author of the popular series set in the Staffordshire
moorlands featuring Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy. She has also
written several medical stand-alone mysteries. Priscilla has two sons
and lives in Staffordshire. She works part time as a nurse.
