Wings over the Watcher

In separate locations in Leek, Staffordshire, three separate tableaux
are being performed. DI Joanna Piercy is writing to her lover Matthew to
try and explain recent events; her sikekick Mike Korpanski is filling
in his insurance form after his wife has had a minor accident in the
car; and an unknown person is penning love letters to a local doctor. It
seems that no one could lead a more mundane life than Beatrice
Pennington, a woman who joins Joanna's cycling club, anxious to regain
her figure by dieting and keeping fit. Unexciting; mid-forties; married;
a part-time librarian; grown-up kids; her life appears unremarkable.
But weeks later a drama unfolds around her. A month after Beatrice
begins her quest for health and glamour her distraught husband arrives
at the police station to report her missing. At first Joanna
assumes Beatrice has decamped with another man. Evidence certainly seems
to point this way. But as Joanna begins to peel back the layers of
Beatrice's seemingly uneventful life she begins to realise: Beatrice was
no ordinary woman.