- With Andy Dalziel at home recuperating from his heart attack, DI Peter Pascoe finds himself in charge of investigating a suspicious death when Nurse Maggie Hopcraft finds Harriet Vanstone dead in her seaweed bath. Vanstone was staying at a health clinic undergoing a variety of spa-like treatments and the doctor who had attended her the day before, Allison Laurie, is prepared to certify the cause of death as a heart attack. Peter isn't so sure but certainly develops an interest in the very attractive doctor. Andy meanwhile is bored to tears sitting at home and, unable to officially return to work, decides to check himself into the clinic to see what he can find out. A second death convinces both Peter and Andy that there is definitely something going on.—garykmcd
- Rich patient Harriet Vannstone (73) is found drowned in a seaweed bath at a local spa, apparently an accident. drugged and held down. With Dalziel on a month's cardiac recovery leave, Pascoe and the underlings deal with the case, which seems routine until nurse Maggie Hopcraft, who found the body, supposedly commits suicide by drowning according to a note she left with solicitor Graham Shah. Bored at home, Dalziel 'privately' books himself a week at the spa in an attempt to find out the real goings on, enduring unpleasantly straining treatments to question inconspicuously interesting patients, like a retired army officer. And Harriet's long-estranged brother, Sir Christopher Wynne, the victim of another grisly murder by drowning. The focus shifts to junkie heir grandson Marcus Vanstone. The truth begins to unravel in an uncanny way for Pascoe, whose latest conquest, Dr. Allison Laurie, becomes a prime suspect, everything linking to the misdiagnosed death of another man at the spa two years ago, and the lawyer's discrete part.—KGF Vissers
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