Slipknot is now out in
paperback
A new medical mystery, called The Watchful Eye, came out on May 21st 2008 and will be launched at Eccleshall library. It is the story of a vulnerable child and a GP named Daniel. Set in Eccleston, a fictional town in Staffordshire. It brushes against the subject of Munchausen by Proxy, a divorced father anxious to keep close contact with his daughter, a knicker stealer and a damaged policeman.
Priscilla has signed a contract signed the contract on Buried in Clay will be published in December 2008. Here is a bit of an intro:
“I started writing this manuscript
in the mid 1980s in response to an aunt’s challenge of what I was going
to do with the rest of my life. At the time I was running a small antiques
business in Leek, Staffordshire, specialising in Staffordshire pottery
and period furniture, particularly old oak. Travelling to salerooms in
Nantwich and Chester I would take the road past Balterley and my eye
was caught by a black and white house set prettily on a hill. I found out
it was called Hall o’th’Wood and dated from the sixteenth century. Each
time I passed it my imagination would be activated and I began to weave
stories about the people who might have lived there linked with my appreciation
for the erstwhile potters of Staffordshire. These stories grew into a manuscript
which I entitled, Hall o’th’Wood. I wrote it on a manual typewriter, using
Tipp-Ex each time I rewrote. I kept no copy!
The manuscript found its
way to London and was rejected by all the well-known publishers then adopted
by a literary agent who also failed to place it. The sole copy was accidentally
destroyed and I came to believe that the story of Hall o’th’Wood would
exist only in my imagination. Years later, after I had made my name as
a crime writer, my publisher questioned me about my early work. On learning
that my first novel had been destroyed she challenged me to rewrite it.
I did wonder whether I could remember the story more than twenty years
later but as I typed I recalled words, phrases, events and the story unfolded.
This, then, is that story
and who else could I dedicate it to but Susie Dunlop who has resurrected
my first novel, Juliet Burton, my current literary agent and David Shelley
who has been with me for almost all the way. With thanks to all of them
for their enthusiasm, patience and loyalty.”
A Plea of Insanity has been translated into Japanese and it is planned that A Fatal Cut will soon follow.
Slipknot has now been translated
into Slovakian as well as coming out in paperback in July 2008
Night Visit is now available in the States under the Bloody Brits imprint.
Priscilla is currently working
on the ninth Joanna Piercy, working title Grave Stones. Some surprises
for all her Joanna fans.
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