Amanda Burton

Top pathologist Sam Ryan is now a professor teaching at London University. Sam is called in by ex-Detective Inspector Leslie Peterson, now a Coroner's officer, who is investigating the ditching of a helicopter ferrying crew to a gas rig with 14 passengers and two crew on board.

Following the death of murder suspect Brian McNally, Sam Ryan is approached by his daughter.

All Sam's skills are required when 10 more bodies are recovered from the North Sea, and the piecing together of the jigsaw of evidence begins in earnest with her pathology team. The discovery that a new rotor bolt was fitted to the crash helicopter recently and that the files are not up-to-date raises more questions. Who supplied and fitted the parts, and did the pilot and engineer sign them off?

Amanda Burton returns as forensic pathologist Sam Ryan in the first of three more 2-part stories. When two elderly Jewish brothers are found murdered, their deaths are linked to the suspicious death of another man. The only man arrested in that case had been a known racist who had attacked the two brothers' just months before.

In the concluding episode of the last story in this series, the nun who wants Sam to authenticate her Saint is keen to know the details of the post-mortem, especially as the future of the hospice depends on it. Meanwhile, Sam agrees to perform the second post-mortem on Helen Dupen requested by her mother, and continues to struggle with her illness.

Sam is called in to examine the body of a nun who had visions of having her heart pierced before she died in 1959, and investigates the death of a woman who apparently committed suicide. She also learns she may have a life-threatening tumor, which she thinks is affecting her judgment.

The hunt is on for Craig Tate. He was at Evans' party, he had recently had an argument with his dead brother Mark and in his apartment, the police have found a quantity of cannabis and a framed picture of Mark, smashed to pieces and covered in blood. But

The following day, Sam reports to Ross and Selway what she has seen, but they are skeptical. Sam is forced to put her job on the line to prove that they are wrong and that this horrifying crime was committed by two 15-year-old boys. As she pursues the tru

The investigation widens. Sam quickly realizes that Terri's death could not have been suicide but she still has to prove it. Meanwhile the police are fitting together the pieces of a too-coincidental puzzle. At the gym, everything is in turmoil, until Kei

When an elderly woman is beaten to death on a rundown inner-city estate, suspicion falls upon a local alcoholic who has a history of violent crime. But Sam has little specific forensic evidence and the actual details of how Millicent sustained her injurie