The body of Geraldine Jackman, formerly the star of a popular television series and later the wife of a respectable scientist, is found in a lake near the famous resort town of Bath. But who killed Geraldine? A husband tired of her hysterics and nervous breakdowns? A single woman in love with her husband, dreaming of marriage with him? A drug dealer to whom the victim owes a lot of money? Or someone who cannot even be suspected of such a brutal crime?..Superintendent Peter Diamond will have to investigate one of the most difficult cases in his career...