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Suspended after taking the blame for a botched joint operation, DS Dave Slater is quietly told to re-examine a closed missing-person case. With fellow scapegoat Norman Norman at his side, he uncovers escorts, corrupt officers and a murder someone will kill to keep buried.

Life in Tinton seems dull until a dog walker finds a battered body near Haunted Copse and two more sets of remains turn up close by. Slater and Norman must untangle old family secrets, a dodgy counterfeiting scheme and simmering tensions inside their own team to find the killer.

An elderly man is found dead at home and Slater initially writes it off as a sad accident. Then the house is ransacked and talk surfaces of a ghost-like woman seen on the streets at night. Chasing the elusive Florence leads Slater and Norman into hidden guilt and long-protected lies.

Roused from sleep by news that Norman’s flat is on fire, Slater rushes to the scene only to find his partner missing. With a new DI watching his every move and whispers of a dangerous Russian connection, he races against time to work out what Norman stumbled into before it is too late.

When Diana Woods is stabbed to death in her kitchen, suspicion falls on her abusive estranged husband. As Slater digs deeper, a new suspect appears and the evidence starts to look almost too neat. He and Norman must decide who is lying and who is being carefully framed.

A bomb explodes in Tinton police station’s forensic lab, killing a colleague who should have gone home hours earlier. As Slater and Norman search for answers, a decades-old death in the river resurfaces, and the investigation forces them to confront uncomfortable truths about someone they thought they knew.

A homeless man is found burned to death in a rubbish skip, apparently a tragic accident. Returning from a break in France, former detective Dave Slater is not so sure, especially when he learns the victim recently had a kidney removed and another rough sleeper has gone missing.

An eight-year-old girl vanishes, the kind of call every officer dreads. When Chrissy’s body is found curled up in Wild Boar Woods, Slater and the team must dig back through local history, old feuds and buried scandals to explain why this stretch of woodland keeps claiming children.

With Slater away, Norman steps into the spotlight and is called to identify a woman on a mortuary slab. Seeing the face of Slater’s former girlfriend staring back at him, he is pulled into a case where personal history, hidden affairs and a very current killer all collide.

When long-buried skeletal remains are uncovered, Slater finds himself back among archaeologists, grieving families and secrets that should have stayed in the ground. The trail leads to a missing son, a fractured household and the kind of old bitterness that can still provoke murder years later.

Back from maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Sarah Southall is thrown straight into a murder case when young Miriam Daniels is found strangled in her flat beside a wilting bouquet and a creepy card. A rash of burglaries against single women hints that Miriam’s killer may be closer than anyone fears.

Now working as private investigators, Slater and Norman are hired to look into the quiet death of pensioner Joe Dalgetty, a case the police were happy to close. Following odd details in his past, they stumble into a web of stolen identities, buried scandals and one woman’s mysterious fall from grace.

Business is slow at Slater and Norman Investigations until a man asks them to find his missing sister, a keen jogger last seen in bright red running gear. What should be a straight missing-person enquiry soon tangles with false identities, compromising photos and a body that nobody wants to claim.

Ten years after Julie Harris was beaten to death at a Welsh caravan park, her husband is still serving life for the crime. New evidence suggests the jury may have got it wrong, and Slater and Norman must re-open the case, retracing old statements and tracking down witnesses who would rather forget.

A grieving mother receives a text message apparently sent from the phone her daughter was using when she died in a car crash two years earlier. As Slater and Norman follow the digital trail, they uncover obsession, blackmail and a shadowy figure using technology to stay one step ahead.

In Llangwelli, a neatly folded pile of clothes is found on the sand with no body in sight, suggesting a suicide that leaves no corpse. DS Norman’s enquiry stalls until builders unearth a woman’s skull inland, forcing him to link two seemingly separate deaths in one baffling puzzle.

Fresh out of prison and determined to go straight, Flutter returns to his hometown expecting nothing and instead inherits a house from the father he thought was long dead. With local reporter Katie Donald’s help, he digs into his family’s past and finds dangerous money, old crimes and one last risky chance at redemption.

Flutter must solve a decades-old child disappearance within thirty days or lose his inherited mansion. Working with journalist Katie Donald, he finds ignored evidence and signs of police corruption that challenge the account Waterbury has long accepted.

A silent emergency call leads the police to a dead biker and an unconscious woman in Dragon Barn Lane. When another woman’s body is discovered nearby, Norman must unravel the connection between the victims.

Brought out of retirement to mentor a misfit CID team in a Welsh seaside town, Norman expects a gentle posting. Instead a woman’s body washes up on the beach, her husband never reported her missing, and every suspect has an alibi, pushing the new unit to prove it can deliver.

Flutter Gamble hopes to rebuild his life after wrongful imprisonment, until his former girlfriend returns as his probation supervisor. When her abusive husband falls into a coma, incriminating evidence makes Flutter the chief suspect in another crime he denies committing.

A bride is found hanging in a stable on her wedding day, but Norman doubts the apparent suicide. Her brother’s friendship with the groom complicates an investigation that uncovers secrets among those closest to her.

An unidentified woman’s battered body is found during a cottage demolition, and an elderly resident confesses. Norman finds gaps in the account, then a second body in a rubbish skip deepens the mystery surrounding the killings.

An elderly man disappears, leaving his dog behind, and Norman investigates a puzzling photograph and the man’s friendships. When the body is found beneath a bridge, the estimated time of death contradicts a recent sighting.

A woman’s body is discovered in a shallow forest grave on Halloween. Evans suspects a local pagan group, but Norman doubts that explanation, and a second body forces him to reconsider the direction of the investigation.

Renovations at a pub reveal a concealed victim killed like those of imprisoned murderer Dave Burnham. Detective Nolan Cormac reopens the investigation, uncovering other missing women while facing a killer eager to manipulate him through further confessions.

Newly promoted Nolan Cormac questions an apparently clear murder case when messages, forensic evidence, and the suspect’s alibi fail to align. Against a superior determined to make an arrest, he must resist office politics and uncover who killed Marie Simpson.

Anonymous letters challenge Nolan Cormac’s belief that a convicted serial killer murdered Marie Simpson. Accurate clues force him to reopen the case unofficially, seek neglected evidence, and revisit the prisoner whose apparent cooperation may conceal a deeper conspiracy.

Demoted detective Nolan Cormac returns to Windover hoping to rebuild his career and find his missing former partner. Two disturbing murders link an old informant and a stately manor to a case in which trust becomes increasingly dangerous.

A dead man with a chain around his chest is found in a garden, while a delivery driver and a businessman’s wife disappear. Norman follows the connections as another corpse turns up at a seaside hotel.

A retired church verger’s death beside a grave appears accidental, but small inconsistencies trouble Katie Donald and Flutter Gamble. Their investigation connects his financial problems with a grave he protected for fifty years, uncovering mysteries rooted in both past and present.

Men claiming to be police drag Billy Dawson from his home, but the authorities deny arresting him. His wife turns to Katie Donald and Flutter Gamble, whose search exposes a darker secret and pulls Flutter dangerously close to his own past.

Two bodies found at Foxley Ridge lead Nolan Cormac and his colleagues into a powerful criminal network. Connections between the victims’ financial work expose corruption and hired violence, forcing Cormac to consider a compromise that could secure a conviction at personal cost.

With David Burnham imprisoned, Nolan Cormac faces a murder bearing the killer’s familiar signature. Someone appears to be copying Burnham’s crimes, and the search for recognition threatens to bring more victims before Cormac can stop it.

A body found in a reservoir draws Nolan Cormac into a murder investigation shaped by messages from an unseen watcher. The clues point toward a revenge plan reaching back seventeen years and into Cormac’s own failures.