Tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Spain, Detective Joanna Piercy is brought back to reality with a bump thanks to Staffordshire's appalling weather - and another dead body.
It's local Leek resident Kathleen Weston who makes the gruesome discovery. The smell is so bad she can't hang her washing out.
Propped up against the boundary at the bottom of her garden sits Jakob Grimshaw. His head has been crushed with one of the loose stones from...