Reginald Hill: A Cure for All Diseases (Dalziel & Pascoe, Book 21)

He may have been in a coma but it would take an act of God to put Superintendant 'Fat" Andy Dalziel down for good. In the meantime, he'll settle for a few weeks bed-rest. Sandytown, a pleasant seaside resort devoted to healing, seems just the ticket. And when a fellow newcomer appears in the shapely form of psychologist Charlotte Heywood, Dalziel develops an unexpected passion for alternative therapy. But Sandytown's prinicple landowners are at war over grandiose plans for the resort. One of them has to go and when one of them does, in spectacularly gruesome fashio, DCI Peter Pasco is called in to investigate - with Dalziel and Charlotte providing unwelcome support. Pasco soon finds dak forces at work in a place where holisitv remedies are no match for the oldest curse of all...