Crime & criminology

When a beautiful, red haired nurse's body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective Constable Ryan Downey, all eyes turn to him. With a very specific modus operandi, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan and her team know exactly who the offender is, the trouble ...

When the body of a young boy is found in Epping Forest, his head resting gently on a pillow, an angel pendant clenched in his small fist, it's clear there's more to it than your average murder. With all eyes on DI Bishop to catch the killer, he's going to need his best team around him - and that ...

Twenty years ago, Fletch avenged the gangland killing of his younger brother, Spencer and accepted his guilt. But his actions meant he had to leave his precious children, Austin and Kitty to fend for themselves. He thought they would be looked after. Now a free man, Fletch returns to find his fam...

Once the top dog, Danny Mckay has walked away from his old gangland life. He's on the straight and narrow now, looking forward to settling down and living a quiet life. But trouble seems to follow Danny. And when his own family is caught up in a shocking event, Danny is dragged back into the gang...

An archaeological dig exposes a brutal history and a witness finally speaks. It seems the wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air of Burrowhead might be excised at last. But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the woods and human rema...

Grace McGill is an insular, friendless woman, living in Glasgow in her 30s. She has her beloved cat, and she has her own business - deep cleaning the houses of Undiscovereds. People who die alone and stay that way until they are found weeks, sometimes months, later. While working in the home of a...

It's November 1983 in Essex and there are reasons to be cheerful. 'Uptown Girl' is sitting pretty at the top of the charts, 'Risky Business' is raking it in at the box office, and there are now four channels on the telly. However, social tensions are beginning to bubble beneath the surface: Mrs T...

Cassie McNamara was found guilty of the murder of her husband, Paul Cavellini, but she has always protested her innocence. Upon her release, she hires local journalist, Dee Doran, to prove she was wrongfully convicted. Cassie and Paul's young daughter, Grace, was adopted by Paul's family. When 18...

A young British backpacker goes missing on the West Coast Trail. No one is sure whether she died or simply disappeared. Apart from Laura. Twenty years later, a body has been found. And there's only one person who could reveal the secret that Laura's been hiding all this time. But she knows that t...

Harry Richards, local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit. DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was no innocent victim. But when the wife of one of Harry's colleagues is also discovered dead in her car, Clare realises there might be something bigger at play. Can she ...