First published 2007 by Macmillan. This edition 2020. Paperback, 359 pages.

"A hot summer 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 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."

Convention Tampere - toivoit tätä!

Thank you ever so much, Lii5a! Not only for the book, but for everything during the convention weekend!

It's time to get to read this in English as well!

A solid summer read! The characters work, though the birders are an annoying bunch and you wait for something sinister from them from the first time they gather.

Vera's looking for a drinking companion!

Vera is one of my tv-police favorities if not the favorite at the moment but I have not read any of the books so it will be interesting to see if there are differences between the tv-series and the book.