Priscilla Masters

Born in Halifax, Yorkshire and brought up in South Wales, Priscilla Masters is one of seven multi-racial children adopted by an orthopaedic surgeon and his Classics graduate wife.

She is the author of more than thirty crime novels. Her DI Joanna Piercy series is set in the town of Leek and the surrounding Staffordshire Moorlands while the Coroner Martha Gunn series is set in Shrewsbury. She has also penned a series featuring forensic psychiatrist Dr Claire Roget set in the Potteries and many standalone alone titles.

In the 1970s she trained as nurse at the Queens Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. She lives on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border and has two sons and two grandsons