Lucinda Pierce Mystery series
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| Author | Diane Fanning |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Publisher | Severn House |
Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 223 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7278-6945-6 |
The Lucinda Pierce Mystery series is a book series written by American non-fiction author and novelist Diane Fanning, debuted in 2008 with The Trophy Exchange. The four-part series, released by Severn House in the UK and US, features Virginia Homicide Detective Lucinda Pierce as she follows the evidence and investigates murders. Known for her non-fiction true crime books, Publishers Weekly described the series as "double duty for Fanning."[1]
Publishers Weekly, in a later review of Twisted Reason, fourth in the series, wrote, "Edgar-finalist Fanning skillfully illuminates the heartbreaking challenges facing Alzheimer’s victims and their families in her fourth mystery featuring Virginia homicide detective Lucinda Pierce."[2] Also with the release of Twisted Reason, the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung newspaper wrote, because Alzheimer's was something the author had witnessed first-hand with her father and father-in-law, "When New Braunfels author Diane Fanning wrote Twisted Reason, the fourth in the Lucinda Pierce mystery series, she cried as she wrote certain passages."[3]
The Trophy Exchange
In the first of the series, life’s been rough for Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce. She lost an eye and disfigured her face responding to a domestic violence call. Now, she's up against a serial killer, and her main suspect is a respected doctor known for his international relief work. It's a good thing Pierce doesn't mind bending the rules.[4]
Punish the Deed
A mutilated body is found sprawled on an office kitchen's floor. Beside it a note read: "I was left behind." Homicide Detective Lucinda Pierce chases a killer whose targets are heads of nonprofit agencies. No good deed goes unpunished.[5]
Mistaken Identity
In a suburban home, a woman’s body is carefully laid out on a bed. In the bathroom, a male corpse is missing both its head and its hands. When the victims’ 13-year-old son claims his father is immortal, Lieutenant Pierce suspects that the family has something to hide.[6]
Twisted Reason
A missing elderly man with Alzheimers shows up dead on his son’s front porch, leading homicide detective Lucinda Pierce to a man who did all the wrong things for all the right reasons and to a strange little Wonderland built with a little money and much imagination.[7]
False Front
When Candace Eagleton is murdered after her marriage is revealed to be a scam, Lucinda Pierce vows to catch the killer.[8]
Wrong Turn
When the body of Emily Sherman is found in the basement of a serial killer, Homicide Detective Lucinda Pierce must go back to the original case to right the wrong she did years ago.[9]
Chain Reaction
Lucinda Pierce comes face-to-face with terrorism when she is called out to the site of a bomb blast at a local high school.[10]
