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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.