Blood on the Rocks

In the fourteenth absorbing Joanna Piercy mystery, the pregnant Detective Inspector is assigned a minor case that's far more sinister than it first appears . . .

DI Joanna Piercy is irritated when she's assigned the apparently minor case of finding an elderly man who's vanished from his residental home. Surely Zachary Foster can't have gone far? As she investigates, Joanna realises that the case is far more sinister than it appears. Could her life, and that of her unborn child, be at risk?

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?