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Dear Reader,
Today's guest author, Priscilla Masters, is the author of more than thirty novels largely set in the Staffordshire Moorlands, featuring Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy, the medieval town of Shrewsbury with Coroner Martha Gunn and a new series featuring Dr Claire Roget, forensic psychiatrist, set in Stoke-on-Trent.
Born in Yorkshire, Priscilla is one of seven children adopted by an orthopaedic surgeon and his Classics graduate wife. Priscilla retired from nursing in 2014, has two sons and two grandsons. Her newest release is The Deceiver.
Priscilla is giving away five audio copies of The Deceiver to five lucky readers at the end of today's guest column..
A lifelong fan of Agatha Christie, what turned me from fan to a writer of crime fiction? Basically an aunt who challenged me what I was going to do with my life. At the time I had two small sons, a husband who was home for lunch every day and I was running an antiques business. I thought my life was both full and fulfilling. But as we all know time is elastic and so I began to write, initially to see if I could. That habit became addictive.
Working as a nurse and networking at parties have provided me with many plot lines. It's surprising how a simple sentence can expand into a novel, such as a psychiatrist who discussed the responsibilities she had towards the general public when releasing a potentially dangerous patient back into the community (Dangerous Minds) and a discussion on same-sex stalking (Wings over the Watcher). As a nurse I realized that people confide in you at the point where they're most vulnerable, when they're frightened and sometimes even ashamed. In a need to confess they tell you secrets about past misdemeanours, prejudices towards family members and old hostilities. Of course everything you're told is confidential but crime writers are masters of the art of disguise and greedy for plots. We all know that no negative experience can be wasted.
I have had some very interesting feedback from followers of my series and occasionally a ghost rises from the pages as readers connect real places and characters with events in their lives.
The Deceiver is a potent mix of professional integrity and a woman with a damaged past. But what is at stake is an obstetrician's career. The challenge for Dr Claire Roget, as a forensic psychiatrist, is to separate fact from fiction. The trouble is that while she understands her patient's allegations are likely to be fantasy she has a sliver of doubt through which a worm could crawl because she and Charles Tissot have history. Winkling out the truth will be a challenge, as well as an unwelcome revisit to the past.
Email: priscilla.masters@btinternet.com
Do get in touch. Give me feedback. I find contact through readers is both a learning curve and an incentive to keep writing and to find new and unexplored plots. The first five insightful comments will receive a digital copy of The Deceiver.
-- Priscilla Masters
priscilla.masters@btinternet.com
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Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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