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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. The Dogleg Murders: Members of the swanky Whiteoaks Golf Club keep turning up dead by the 13th hole. The black book: The detectives investigate a string of savage murders precipated by a local art auction. Secrets and spies: A mysterious creature is killing sheep in Midsomer County, but it soon moves on to larger prey. The...
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After Fox is beaten up, he believes his attackers were officers. Does Sam realize her investigation could point to police corruption? When a second drug dealer is murdered, the police consider it the work of vigilantes. But Sam proves a link back to Maggie Collins. It's a link which leads her to a doctor with a secret past, a corrupt drugs rehabilitation worker and finally DCI Hoskins herself. As the death toll mounts, is the murderer someone who...
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Sam, now emotionally entangled with DI Michael Connor, continues her investigations into two suspicious deaths. The arrival in Cambridge of Connor's wife, Helen, could prove embarrassing. Sam is more worried about her work and the prospect of a job offer in London. But will Sam solve the mirroring crimes of the past and the present before a deadly personal revenge is enacted? What is the connection between the dead soldier, Ian Neal, and an Army killing...
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A student is murdered and the police suspect it is the same person who killed lecturer Annabelle Evans. Sam is too close to the case and her emotion is clouding her judgement. She seeks the advice of her former mentor, Professor Leon Forman. Ryan believes that the killer is waiter and sometime student Marco Rossi, and that Annabelle's husband Martin is innocent. DI Connor learns that his suspicions are wrong about Martin killing his wife because she...
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When Suzy Franklin's first husband turns up on her doorstep after being released from prison, she greets him with a knife. As the relationship between Suzy and Paul disintegrates into accusation and deceit, Gemma's 13-year-old stepsister, Kate, remains isolated and desperate for her father's love. The police are also convinced that Boyd killed his daughter, Gemma – until DS Bradley discovers that Boyd was with his probation officer when the murder...
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A drugs war leads Sam into the murky world of dealers, undercover detectives and police corruption. Sam is called to a squalid flat where Maggie Collins and her baby daughter are found dead, the mother from a drug overdose, the baby from dehydration. Two weeks later, an explosion kills a local drug dealer. Sam's post-mortem reveals that the dealer had ingested the same drug as the dead mother. Sam thinks the cases are linked, but her theories are...
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A murder at a Cambridge college leads pathologist Sam Ryan into professional, emotional and physical danger. Dr. Annabelle Evans – a personal friend of Sam Ryan and a senior lecturer in genetics at a Cambridge college – is found murdered. New detectives DI Connor and DS Bradley suspect Annabelle's husband, Martin. But when DI Connor realizes that Ryan knows the victim, he is understandably concerned: "Isn't it possible that you could jeopardize...
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Hidden secrets in a suburban, middle-class family come to light when a 17-year-old girl is found murdered. Gemma Boyd, a trainee estate agent, is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in an empty house. Mysterious phone calls are logged to her office and home. Are the police looking for a stalker or a lover? As the police and Sam Ryan investigate, dark truths about the family are brought to light. Sam learns that Gemma's mother, Suzy, threw her...
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A farming accident in present-day Cambridge leads Sam to investigate the army cover-up of a murder in Northern Ireland in 1985. When local farmer Phil Nelson dies after a fall under a combine harvester, Sam Ryan thinks the death is accidental. But an anonymous tip-off later points her to evidence that Phil was murdered. DI Connor quickly suspects Owen Johnson, a farm worker and former soldier, and Phil's wife, Jane. Then Ian Neal, a soldier who served...