Maggie Wise, a retired homicide cop turned radio presenter, is asked to help the local police with the case of two missing girls.
Dr Oscar LeBlanc is close to a medical breakthrough to cure dementia and other degenerative diseases . . . but in order to succeed he needs to illegally obtain plasma from prepubescent children. He believes the ends justify the means and two young girls are abducted.
The disappearance of the girls causes a lockdown of the area and, when one of the girl's parents prove uncooperative with the police, former homicide cop turned radio presenter Maggie Wise offers to help. Maggie quickly forms a connection with the family just as the girls are recovered.
LeBlanc is quickly suspected, but after he is questioned he's found dead from an apparent suicide. However, the circumstances are suspicious and Maggie finds herself conflicted when the family become the prime suspects.
Born in Hawaii but spending most of her life in Indiana, Tricia Fields now lives with her family in a log cabin on a small farm. Fields won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her first novel in the Josie Gray mystery series, The Territory, which was also named a Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery Debut of the Year. Young Blood is her first novel with Severn House.
www.triciafields.com
Title: Young Blood: 1 (A Maggie Wise mystery)
Author: Fields, Tricia
ISBN: 9781780296937
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-01-29
Number of Pages: 240
Weight: 0.3201 kg
Fields delivers loads of entertaining twists, authentic characters, and shifting motives. Readers will be glad to see more of complex, savvy Maggie * Publishers Weekly *
A satisfying look at the underbelly of moneyed medicine. This one is for Michael Crichton fans * Booklist *
Fields's fourth Josie Gray mystery is as crisp as brush ready to catch fire * Publishers Weekly on Firebreak *
Fields's Tony Hillerman Prize-winning mysteries capture the raw natural beauty of West Texas * Library Journal on Midnight Crossing *
A brisk narrative, a vivid sense of place, and an appealing protagonist make this another fine entry in this winning series * Booklist on Firebreak *
Emotionally taut, building to a breathtaking climax * Booklist Starred Review of Wrecked *
The action builds to a satisfying climax * Publishers Weekly on Wrecked *