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At the center of the action is top-ranking detective Janine Lewis, a single mother passionately committed to both her children and her work. She struggles to balance the demands of a high-powered, sometimes dangerous job with raising her children.

A string of mysterious deaths catapults Dalgliesh into a maze of mystery, blackmail and murder.

"Dark secrets lurk behind the respectable facade of a government minister's household in a complex case of multiple murder." --

Four television programs based on Caroline Graham's Inspector Barnaby mystery series.

Empty house: It is three years later. Did Sherlock Holmes plunge to his death at the Reichenbach Falls fighting with the fiendish Professor Moriarty? Watson is faced with an unsolved murder, and is lost without the talents of his old partner to help him; until he spots a mysterious visitor in court, listening to testimony about the murdered man. Abbey grange: Who murdered the last of the Brackenstall line, Sir Eustace Brackenstall? Sherlock Holmes...

The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band.

"Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation... it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano. With his always loyal and sometimes effective police squad, he solves crimes in the town of Vigata, crossing paths with Mafia dons, priests, housewives, liars and saints. All the while he confronts his personal demons, which war against his professional ideals, his commitment to his beautiful long-distance girlfriend and his constant flirtation...

David Jason is Detective Inspector Jack Frost, a policeman with a knack for attracting trouble. Set in the dreary town of Denton, Frost approaches each case with his characteristic dry wit and sense of moral justice.