Grave Stones

Priscilla Masters

Apr 2012 · Allison & Busby

About this ebook

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 – 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 . . .

About the author

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.