Description Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith.
She finds Marilyn upstairs, spreadeagled across the bed, provacatively dressed and elaborately made up - she is also stone dead.
Despite a lack of evidence at the post mortem, Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered.
As a newcomer and a woman in this remote moorland town, she must battle against long-held prejudices in her determination to find the killer.
But could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith's death was not murder after all .
? 'It's Masters' first novel and a cracking start to her career in literary crime' - Daily Express.
