Another hot summer on the Northumberland coast. Julie Armstrong returns home from an evening walk to find her son murdered. Luke was strangled, placed in a filled bathtub and decorated with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene intrigued Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team. But they must act quickly to find the mysterious maniac. And while the locals are forced to share their darkest secrets with the detective, the killer watches and waits. Perhaps he will have time to hide another body in the beautiful dark depths...Anne Cleeves inherits her great predecessors, creating three-dimensional, psychologically accurate portraits of characters. Endless landscapes and the suffocating atmosphere of provincial towns, detective insight and non-standard investigative methods - all this will open up new facets of the modern British detective.1. Famous author of detective stories in Great Britain.2. A combination of a fascinating detective mystery and deep psychologism.3. The atmosphere of a classic British detective story.4. The main character, who stands on a par with the most famous literary detectives.5. The book formed the basis of the series “Faith.” “Cleeves masterfully delivers a powerful, confident blow and hits the nail on the head” - The Observer “Anne Cleeves writes better with each book! Hidden Depths is full of subtle hints and subtle nuances. And Cleaves draws the characters with great care and attention.” – Tribune