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...Hidden Depths is the third book in Ann Cleeves? Vera Stanhope series ? which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn, VERA. A hot summer on the Northumberland coast & Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water & covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has 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 local residents are forced to share their deepest, darkest secrets, the killer watches, waits & plans to prepare another beautiful, watery grave... Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, Silent Voices & The Glass Room. Ann Cleeves? Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles, of which Dead Water is the most recent.