Nicola Maiden has been bludgeoned to death, and her camping companion Gerry Cole Stabbed. When it turns out that Nicola's father is a retired Superintendent in Vice, Lynley and Havers soon uncover dark secrets and fidn themselves in a murky world of prostitution and revenge.

Lynley and Havers are called away from DCI Webberley's anniversary when Eugenie Martin is killed on a quiet London street. She had deserted her husband and son after the death of her daughter - but that death may hold a clue to her murder.

DC Havers and DC Billy Slaven discover a woman's body, Morag MacNichol. It appears she has commited suicide, but Havers feels something is wrong and calls for assistance. When proven right, it set Havers and Lynley in search of a killer and the answer to a large bag of money found hidden at the scene.

Lynley and his pregnant wife Helen attend the funeral of Professor Dermot Finnegan, a forensic psychologist and Helen's former mentor. Could the killer be a convicted murderer Finnegan helped put away? Or one of Finnegan's many lovers, a list of which seems to include Lynley's wife.

It's Havers' first day back at work and she and Lynley find themselves in a Suffold village, where a young woman has been brutally murdered with a shot gun. Everyone seems to know something, but no one is talking, until a series of clues lead to a suspect who might turn out to be another victim.

Havers and Lynley have taken different paths to Corwall, bu tend up at the same destination - a barn rontaining an apparent suicide... and a lot of money. If it's murder, the cause may be wrapped up in a world of horses and coastal smuggling - and the killer may be closer to home than Lynley suspects.

A doorkeeper at the House of Lords has been murdered and Lynley and Havers find themselves caught up in the murky world of politics, lobbyists and arms dealing. This could be their most dangerous case yet as they find themselves up against forces theyare helpless to combat.

The body of a man has been found frozen on a meat truck carrying a British passport and a valuable page from an ancient Koran. But which is the greater clue, the body or the Koran? Under pressure, Lynley may cross a line from which there is no return.