Hidden Depths

On the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home to find her son murdered.

Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water, and covered with wild flowers.

This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued. But then a second body, that of beautiful young teacher Lily Marsh, is discovered laid out in a rock pool, the water strewn with flowers.

Now Vera must work quickly to find this dramatist, this killer who is making art out of death.