Blood on the Rocks
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Publisher Description
DI Joanna Piercy is not happy when she’s assigned the apparently minor case of finding a missing elderly man, but it turns out to be far more sinister . . .
DI Joanna Piercy is irritated at what she perceives to be an attempt to wrap her up in cotton wool during her pregnancy when she is asked to take on the case of Zachary Foster, a missing ninety-six-year-old man suffering from dementia. Zachary has vanished from his residential care home on the edge of Leek during the night with his beloved old teddy bear. He can’t have gone far, surely, but how did a frail, elderly man manage to abscond from a secure house at night? As Joanna investigates, it soon becomes clear that this apparently minor case is far more sinister than it first appears. Could her own life, and that of her unborn child, be at risk?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Masters's well-plotted 14th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joanna Piercy (after 2017's Crooked Street) finds Joanna heavily pregnant with her first child and unhappy at being assigned to investigate 96-year-old Zachary Foster's disappearance from a residential home on the outskirts of Leek, Staffordshire. As she says to her partner, Det. Sgt. Mike Korpanski: "Hardly a major case. How are the mighty fallen." She dutifully questions the staff and residents of the home and finds a few too many discrepancies. How could a frail old man suffering from dementia escape from a carefully locked building? What became of his much-loved childhood teddy bear? Was his disappearance part of a larger, more sinister plan? Meanwhile, Joanna wrestles with her own insecurity about her upcoming motherhood and the changes it will bring to her marriage and career. The relationships between Joanna and her husband and colleagues add depth. Fans of character-driven police procedurals will be rewarded.
