Readathon
Hidden Depths - Ann Cleeves
Julie stared at him, submerged beneath the bath water, his hair rising like fronds of seaweed towards the surface. She couldn't see his body because of the flowers...
A hot summer night on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered in wild flowers.
The stylized murder has Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope intrigued. But then another body is discovered in a rock pool, the corpse again strewn with flowers. Vera must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death.
As the local residents are forced to share their deepest, darkest secrets, the killer watches, waits and plans to prepare another beautiful, watery grave...
I think it's because I've seen the adaptations on the tv, Vera doesn't seem to have a team behind her in the books. It's mainly just Joe and the Pathologist.