Laura Mackie

Stephen Collins is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before rumors of an affair between Stephen and the assistant his the headlines. Meanwhile a suspected teenage drug dealer is shot dead. Revelation upon revelation pile up in the aftermath...

A submachine gun attack on a group of teenagers outside a London nightclub brings the team into the unfamiliar urban world of street gangs on the decaying inner-city estates. Meanwhile Nikki uncovers the decomposed body of a drug addict and finds herself in conflict with a detective who believes that such deaths are so common they are hardly worth investigating.

A paranoid schizophrenic goes on a violent frenzy in a busy high street and two people are left dead. Then when a young man from the same care home commits suicide, Nikki becomes convinced that there is a connection. Meanwhile Harry tries to find the truth about a teenage suicide's death for her devastated mother, and Leo investigates the murder of a bank manager.

When members of a syndicate owning a prize racehorse are killed in a helicopter crash, Leo and Harry investigate a complex betting scam.

When her grandmother passes away, Nikki begins to have doubts about her profession. Meanwhile, the team investigates a series of brutal and apparently entirely motiveless murders - and a killer who seemingly needs to look his victims in the face as they die. Harry investigates the death of a woman who appears to have drowned in three inches of water - with no obvious suspect to apportion blame.

Charles takes a risk to secure funds to stand up to his rebellious parliament.

A bid to exclude the Duke of York from the throne forces Charles into desperate measures.