Caroline Quentin

After a key informant winds up dead, Shap's involvement strains relations on the squad and puts his career in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the tangled affairs between the Belarusian's employer and the family whom he was watching reveal even more motives for murder.

While mulling over a promotion that would take her off the squad, Janine supervises a case involving an illegal Belarusian immigrant and private investigator found murdered in a parking lot. At the same time, SD Tony Shap launches a covert investigation of his own.

Jack Taylor--charismatic leader of an up-and-coming rock back--dies in his apartment after a sold-out concert. The investigation takes Janine and Richard deep into Manchester's music scene, where personal and professional jealousies run riot.

Someone strangled veterinarian Ruth Turner on her daily run near bucolic Hunter's Low. Janine and her team find illicit sex and illegal acitivities roiling under the placid surface of the community. And a series of arsons, which may or may not be connected to the murder, complicates their investigation.

For 15 years, Bernard Aspen served a life sentence while his family protested his innocence and campaigned for his release. When someone drowns him in a prison washroom, Richard sees only one way to catch the killer--go undercover inside the jail, risking his own life in the process.

On the morning after her team's crushing defeat in a cheerleading competition, Melanie Gaskell discovers her mother, Helen, bludgeoned to death in the garage. Helen had also coached the cheerleaders, and Janine realizes that the squad harbors emotions more sinister than team spirit.

Only a week before the regiment's deployment to the Persian Gulf, a sergeant major dies on the supposedly friendly confines of his base, the victim of a vicious attack. Called to the scene, Janine seems quite taken by her handsome military counterpart in the investigation. But Richard believes that the military has its own agenda, and his suspicions involve more than mere jealousy.

In the midst of a much-publicized malpractice lawsuit, Dr. Donald Halliwell is shot dead outside his office. Then a disgruntled doctor in Halliwell's practice goes missing. Janine and Richard uncover a real mess in the good doctor's personal and professional life--and plenty of motives for murder.

After footballer Duane Kent--a rising star in the youth league--gets stabbed in a street brawl outside a nighclub, Janine and her team investigate. They soon find that the dead teen seems to have led a double life, far from the golden boy image held up by his parents, girlfriend, and coaches.

At the bottom of Blackshore Lake, divers find the remains of a man eventually dientified as Mickey Day, a small-time crook and drug dealer. What connection--if any--did he have with a group of four college mates who used to fist together at the lake but now are dying under suspicious circumstances, one by one?

After serving only 18 months in prison for strangling his wife with a dog chain, Alan Hickson meets a strikingly similar end. Still outraged over Hickson's light sentence, 15 members of his dead wife's family confess to the murder. Thus, Janine and Richard face the daunting task of proving a roomful of suspects innocent.

When three-year-old Sammy Wray apparently vanishes into thin air from a neighborhood playground, the squad moves heaven and earth to find him. But when a child's body turns up wrapped in a sheet in a drainage tunnel, the mystery only deepens and leads Janine to families shattered by jealousy and delusion.