The body beautiful - Raymond Flynn

Detective Chief Inspector Robert Graham is mugged when he's mistaken for a stalker, a peeping tom outsmarts the police force and a fast-talking barmaid disappears just like her one-time husband, the convicted rapist. But it's someone quite different who dies. Shirley West had hoped to make her fortune as the winner of Paulie Parkes' Parade, Eddathorpe's answer to the Miss World competition. Instead, she's murdered brutally under the noses of the police who were supposedly trying to thwart the stalker, the peeping tom and the paroled rapist.

Soon Graham soon becomes embroiled in a more complicated and sinister story - as devious, as seedy and as engrossing as Eddathorpe itself.