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Scaring Crows - Priscilla Masters


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Scaring Crows - Priscilla Masters

 
Description: ISBN 0333745620 / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Priscilla Masters / Hardcover / 304 Pages / Book is published 1999-02-19 by Macmillan

Newest Review: ... keeping things simple and not giving away too much, that many authors of crime fiction seem to have forgotten about, choosing ... more

 ... to blind the reader with science instead. Joanna Piercy is a very determined woman, wanting to do her best within all parts of her life. Her addiction to her career, however, does tend to blind her to the personal side of her life at times; her boyfriend, Matthew, wants to settle down and have children, but Joanna isn't keen to do either, thinking that it will interfere with her job. I suppose she is a female version of a stereotypical male detective, except that she doesn't seem to drink an awful lot. Generally I ...more

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Premium Review Scaring Crows - Priscilla Masters: Death by shotgun (872 words)
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The bodies of two farmers, Aaron and Jack Summers, are found in their isolated farmhouse; both dead from shotgun wounds, presumably the shotgun that sat in their hallway for anyone to pick up and use. Yet the Summers barely had any contact with anyone else, and they certainly didn't seem to have any enemies. DI Joanna Piercy is stumped - until she finds out that there is a missing member of the family, a daughter called Ruthie. Is she in hiding because she killed her father and brother? Or is she lying somewhere injured or dead herself? As practically the only lead, a nationwide search sets out to find her. But is she the solution to the case, or is there something that ...  Read the complete review

 

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