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Having been shunted onto the late show, the Hollywood night beat, Renee Ballard has come to believe it suits her. One night after attending a grisly callout, she returns to the station in the early hours, only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective...

1910: Sir Thomas Pitt's son Daniel is in the middle of his first case as a barrister when he is summoned to the Old Bailey for an important trial. Renowned biographer Russell Graves is charged with the brutal murder of his wife, and Daniel must assist in his defence. When the jury finds the accus...

Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong. Returning to their base of operations, she finds the bloodied body of her boss and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He's been executed - a single shot to the head. In the aftermath, it seems some...

Cambridge, 1939: In the opening weeks of the Second World War, the first blackout - the Great Darkness - covers southern England, enveloping the city. Detective Inspector Eden Brooke, a wounded hero of the Great War, takes his nightly dip in the cool waters of the Cam. Though the night is full of...

When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene of a murder, he realizes the victim is well known to him. A decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters. Although cleared, the dead man had been a suspect in their disappearance. And...

When sixteen-year-old Jane's mother goes missing, the only thing she leaves behind is a card saying 'Happy 1st Birthday' with the message inside: 'YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME. DARE TO PLAY?' Frustrated by the lack of interest from the police, Jane goes online and makes a chilling discovery: the same ca...

In North Devon, Detective Inspector Matthew Venn stands outside the crematorium as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict Christian sect in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take cha...

It's 1941 and young Lily Collins is starting work in Midlands department store Marlow's. As the air raid sirens blare, Lily learns the ropes from her sophisticated boss, Miss Frobisher, alongside shy fellow junior Gladys. But her friendship with young salesman Jim draws her into a swirl of secret...