Description
When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she briefly wonders if, for once in her life, she's uncovered a simple death from natural causes. But a closer inspection reveals ligature marks around the victim's throat — death is never that simple. Doing what she does best, Vera pulls her team together and sets them to interviewing staff and others connected to the victim, while she and her colleague, Sergeant Joe Ashworth, work to find a motive. While Joe struggles to reconcile his home life with the demands of the job, Vera revels in being back in charge of an investigation. Death has never made her feel so alive... When they discover that the victim had worked in social services and had been involved in a shocking case concerning a young child, it appears obvious that the two are connected. But things are never as they seem.