MEET YOUR NEW FAVOURITE DETECTIVE. DI JOANNA PIERCY IS AN OUTSIDER IN A REMOTE STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDS TOWN.

Please note this book was previously published as The Final Curtain.

A sixty-year-old woman, all alone in an isolated farmhouse out on the moors. Is she imagining the stranger in her home, or is she really in danger?

Former child star Timony Weeks calls Leek Police fifteen times while Detective Joanna Piercy is on her honeymoon. Weeks is terrified of the person creeping round her house at night. Someone moved her nightdress and opened the kitchen window. They even left a dead mouse in her bread bin. But the police find no signs of an intruder.

Now she’s back in the thick of it, Detective Piercy also has to deal with a new Superintendent. His by-the-book reputation precedes him — and he’s breathing down her neck to get to the bottom of this mysterious intruder issue.

Then a decomposed body is dug up from an ancient well on the property. Maybe Timony wasn’t imagining it all?

Detective Piercy knows that if she doesn’t crack the case, something awful will happen to the woman all alone in the isolated farmhouse.

A THRILLING MYSTERY THAT WILL HAVE YOU HOOKED FROM THE FIRST PAGE.

An accomplished police procedural with a stunningly realized heroine, perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths, Joy Ellis, L.J. Ross, Lynda La Plante, Angela Marsons, Jane Adams and Helen H. Durrant.