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Violence
Some
Moderate — two staged murders; drowning; the investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild
Sexual Content
None
No explicit sexual content; some adult situations in the victims' backstories
Substance Use
None
No meaningful substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The killer's ritual — what the flowers and staging mean; the victims' connection; Vera's psychological read of the perpetrator
What this book is about
A young man is found drowned in a bathtub filled with wildflowers — and then a young woman, the same way. Vera Stanhope investigates a killer with an elaborate staging ritual. Hidden Depths is the third Vera Stanhope novel — more thriller-inflected than the first two, with a serial killer whose psychology Vera must understand.
Notes for sensitive readers
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A staged murder ritual — two victims with identical presentation
More thriller-inflected than earlier Vera books
Third in the Vera series
The killer's psychology — Vera must understand the ritual to find them
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