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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?|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?
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- ISBN: 9781448302222
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June 10, 2019
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. Agent: Juliet Burton, Juliet Burton Literary (U.K.). -
June 15, 2019
A heavily pregnant police detective is targeted for revenge (Crooked Street, 2017, etc.). DI Joanna Piercy's husband, Matthew, is over the moon about the impending birth of their child, who he insists will be a son. Joanna's considerably more ambivalent herself. Uncomfortable with her pregnancy and unsure of her abilities as a mother, she's devoted to her job and unhappy when she's given the case of an old man who vanished from a residential home. The local police have had no luck in finding Zachary Foster a 96-year-old man with dementia who's been restive over the disappearance of his precious teddy bear. Although Joanna widens the search area, it seems impossible that Zach could have gone far, and she keeps expecting his body to turn up. Her interviews with staff leave her wondering whether Zach was capable of leaving on his own, but there seems no reason why anyone would take him. DS Mike Korpanski always has Joanna's back, but he enjoys teasing her about her awkward state, and Matt wants to keep her wrapped in cotton wool. In fact, Joanna finds herself increasingly at odds with Matt, who's furious when she has a bike accident. Neither of them has any inkling of a plan hatched by Kath Whalley, who's never forgiven Joanna for putting her in prison. Now that she's free again, she plans to kill Joanna and the baby with some help from her sidekicks Fifi, Debs, and Chi, all of them deathly afraid of Kath's violent, uncontrollable temper, which can leave the object of her dislike crippled or dead. A chance meeting between Chi and a worker at the residential home sets Kath's plot and Joanna's case on a collision course. An absorbing, character-driven police procedural with some provocative twists.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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