When a young woman, Lizzie Faulkner, is shot late at night outside the holiday chalet where she and two friends are staying for the weekend, Vera and Joe suspect that her murder is linked to poachers operating in nearby fields. They identify a suspect, Robert Doran, but despite being in the vicinity at the time, he denies being responsible for Lizzie's murder. Vera begins to suspect the woman's death may have been a case of mistaken identity and that the intended victim may have been one of the
An acclaimed doctor, Dan Marsden, is shot through the skull in the living room of his remote country home, and his two daughters, Karen and Mira, are taken against their will. Meanwhile, a new DC, Barry Kelman, is temporarily assigned to the team to help them with the investigation. Initial suspicion falls upon Jonah Regan, an award-winning photographer who had previously tried to adopt Mira before the Marsden family were granted custody. However, it soon becomes apparent that one of Mira's rela
A group of sixth form students from a prestigious local school on a weekend retreat at a leisure centre witness a man on fire who falls from a cliff into the river below. The victim, extreme sports enthusiast Gideon Frane, is discovered to have been a former head boy at the same school but is also known to have been responsible for 97 incidents of harassment and threat against his ex-girlfriend. When Billy discovers Frane was poisoned with atropine, Vera begins to look at the case from a complet
Former London Metropolitan Police detective and well-documented ladies man John Warnock is found stabbed in an alleyway adjacent to a quayside pub he had been visiting. Suspicion initially falls on young street thief Reece, who is well known to Kenny, who had arrested him several times in the past. Although Reece admits to lifting the victim's credit card, he denies murder. A complex web of relationships and deceit begins to boil to the surface, and it soon becomes apparent that Warnock had been