Joanna Piercy Books in Order

Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy suspects a nurse's unexplained death is murder despite the absence of clear postmortem evidence. Her determination to investigate puts her against prejudice as she tries to establish what happened and identify a killer.

A ten-year-old boy's burning body is discovered beneath a moorland rock formation. Joanna Piercy investigates the contrast between signs of neglect, expensive trainers, and a gold ring linked to a dead politician as more children disappear.

Joanna Piercy investigates after a woman's body is discovered on a Staffordshire hillside. What might first appear to be a death in the open becomes a murder inquiry when bruises reveal that someone inflicted violence on her.

A solicitor's professionally executed murder brings the Regional Crime Squad into Joanna Piercy's station. Superintendent Karen Pugh suspects a contract killer and plans to trap him in Leek, placing Joanna amid an unusually high-profile investigation.

After the Hardacre family's murder, their daughter Ruthie is missing. Joanna Piercy organizes a major search while considering three possibilities: the girl has fled, she is another victim whose body is hidden, or she killed her family.

Following robberies targeting elderly women, Nancy Lawrence is found bludgeoned over her unfinished tapestry. Joanna Piercy discovers the victim's estranged brother lives next door and traces a mystery whose roots reach far beyond the apparent burglary.

Joanna Piercy dismisses concerns about a man watching children outside a village school, then a young girl vanishes. Regretting her judgment, she searches for the child while foot-and-mouth restrictions make the surrounding countryside difficult to investigate.

Beatrice Pennington joins Joanna Piercy's cycling club hoping to improve her fitness, then disappears weeks later. Joanna initially suspects a romantic escape, but investigating the librarian's apparently ordinary life reveals complications hidden beneath its respectable surface.

A moorland farmer's quarrels with residents of a new housing estate culminate in his violent death beside a boundary wall. Joanna Piercy investigates competing grievances and the victim's malicious behavior while dealing with worries in her own life.

A young woman found freezing outside a Leek nightclub reports rape. Joanna Piercy investigates possible links to an earlier assault while examining conflicting evidence and the woman's previous allegations, trying to determine exactly what happened.

Former child television star Timony Weeks repeatedly reports unsettling incidents at her isolated farmhouse. Initially skeptical, Joanna Piercy investigates as the harassment escalates, uncovering secrets from the woman's past that may explain why someone is targeting her.

Two French teenagers disappear during an English hitchhiking holiday, leaving a postcard from Rudyard Lake as their last contact. Joanna Piercy follows their trail to an upscale guesthouse whose anxious owner appears to be hiding something.

A wife reports her supposedly perfect husband missing, prompting Joanna Piercy and Mike Korpanski to investigate. Searches through cramped Victorian streets reveal secrets within his marriage and neighborhood, where someone knows what became of him.

Pregnant Joanna Piercy resents being assigned to find an elderly man who vanished from a secure care home. His frailty and dementia make the escape puzzling, and the apparently routine inquiry soon exposes a more sinister danger.

A bloodstained, silent woman is found pushing a child's stroller near a steep moorland drop. Joanna Piercy investigates whether she is victim or threat, calling on psychiatrist Claire Roget to help uncover the story she cannot tell.

An armed intruder takes an elderly man hostage near Rudyard Lake and demands to speak only with Joanna Piercy. With little negotiation experience, she must uncover why he knows her and how a distant crime connects them.