A fire on a houseboat leads to the discovery of a charred body. DCI Banks and Annie believe they have uncovered a case of art.

Annie arrives at the scene of a murder on Eastvale moor to find a paralysed female in a wheelchair who has had her throat cut.

Banks is asked by Superintendent Gerry Rydell to find his missing daughter Emily, and Annie gets lumbered with an armed carjacking and the murder of a small time crook.

When DCI Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy, he drops everything to find him, just as new recruit DI Helen Morton finds evidence linking Banks to the body…

DCI Banks and DI Morton must reconcile their policing styles and personalities whilst unraveling the murder of an accountant, who was leading a secret double life.

DCI Banks and DI Morton must reconcile their policing styles and personalities whilst unraveling the murder of an accountant, who was leading a secret double life.

When a teenage girl is found strangled, Banks is on the case...even at the expense of his relationship with Helen.

When the mother of 11 year old Kyle Heath reports him abducted by a man and a woman masquerading as social workers, Banks is drawn into a strange and unsettling search for the missing…

When a journalist is found dead at a holiday home in a remote village, Banks and the team find a connection to a death in the 1980s involving the surviving members of a pop band.

A terrible chain of events is set in motion by the discovery of a loaded gun in a young girl's bedroom, ultimately putting Banks' own daughter in mortal danger.

After Banks suffers a massive personal loss and also discovers that DS Annie Cabbott is back with her former boyfriend, he is forced to navigate a complex murder investigation while…

When lawyer Anaan Kamel is found dead, evidence seems to point to former employee Marcus Leyton with whom she was having an affair. But Banks and Helen believe the family are hiding…

Helen's past comes back to haunt her when an old friend looks to her for help after claiming that he is being framed.

When the victim of a frenzied attack is found in woodland, initially the team wonder if it's random or related to the location.

What starts out as a missing person 's case soon escalates into a kidnap and ransom, a nd it soon becomes clear that they are far from average criminals.