Order of Joanna Piercy Books
Joanna Piercy is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by English novelist Priscilla Masters. DI Joanna Piercy is based out of Leek, Staffordshire, England. She is a cycling enthusiast and a psychology grad who uses both her knowledge and her instincts to solve cases alongside the Polish bodybuilder Sgt. Mike Korpanski.
Priscilla Masters began her Joanna Piercy series in 1995 with the novel Winding Up the Serpent. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Priscilla Masters’ books in order of when they were first published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of DI Joanna Piercy Books
| Winding Up the Serpent | (1995) |    |
| Catch the Fallen Sparrow | (1996) | |
| A Wreath For My Sister | (1997) | |
| And None Shall Sleep | (1997) | |
| Scaring Crows | (1999) | |
| Embroidering Shrouds | (2001) | |
| Endangering Innocents | (2003) | |
| Wings Over the Watcher | (2006) | |
| Grave Stones | (2009) | |
| A Velvet Scream | (2011) | |
| The Final Curtain | (2013) | |
| Guilty Waters | (2015) | |
| Crooked Street | (2016) | |
| Blood on the Rocks | (2019) | |
| Almost a Whisper | (2022) | |
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Joanna Piercy Synopsis: In Winding Up the Serpent by Priscilla Masters (book 1 of the series), Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy breaks into the house of missing nurse Marilyn Smith. She finds Marilyn upstairs, spreadeagled across the bed, provocatively dressed and elaborately made up… and dead as a doornail. Despite a lack of evidence at the postmortem, Piercy is convinced that Marilyn was murdered. As both a newcomer and a female in the town, she must fight longstanding prejudices in her determination to track down the killer. But could she be wrong? Is it possible that Marilyn Smith’s death was not murder after all?