Blood on the Rocks

By Priscilla Masters

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?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Release date: Jun 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781448302222

Priscilla Masters

Priscilla Masters is the author of the successful 'Martha Gunn' series, as well as the 'Joanna Piercy' novels and a series of medical mysteries featuring Dr Claire Roget. She lives near the Shropshire/Staffordshire border.

Reviews for Blood on the Rocks

[vesper1931 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

With not long to go before giving birth DI Joanna Piercy is given the supposedly easy case of the missing 96 year old dementia sufferer Zachary Foster. Who went missing overnight from a residential care on the outskirts of Leek, a care home locked up for the night.
Although the 14th in the series I felt that it could easily be read as a standalone story. Unfortunately I didn't really like any of the characters not even the main detective and her husband. I did find it surprising that it took so long for the police to determine the motive, I though it was fairly obvious.
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