Where Roses Fade: Andrew Taylor

When Mattie Harris`s body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn`t a swimmer - it can`t have been a simple accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life - could she have fallen in Or was she pushed Mattie was a waitress, of no importance at all, so when Lydmouth`s most prominent citizens become very anxious to establish that her death was accidental, Jill Francis`s suspicions become roused. In the meantime she is becoming ever closer to Inspector Richard Thornhill, and discovering that the living have as many secrets as the dead...