Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on.

Kink is moving into the mainstream, and it’s time we started talking about it. From a dominant’s dungeon to a London fetish club, sex expert Alix Fox explores some of the kinky places many of us never get to visit, and dives deep into some of our most private fantasies. She examines kinky sex from all the angles - personal, political, psychological, physiological, historical, and more - to try and help us understand our desires and those of the people around us. Each episode explores kink from a different era, including contemporary stories and expert voices.

From the best-selling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness. Return to a planet swept by apocalyptic storms, a world tipping into war as aristocratic families move to control the shard blades and shard plates, ancient artefacts from a past civilisation that can win wars.

Alix visits a dungeon and hears about some particularly extreme examples of kink, leading her to ask why we do this to ourselves. For answers, we explore kinky motivations from the middle ages, and hear from top psychologists and scientists...Alix even takes part in a kinky experiment herself.

Having found that kink is common, and there are many reasons for it, Alix asks why it is we tend to feel ashamed of our more unusual desires. We join a man who, in the wake of personal tragedy, is finding solace in his sexuality, hear about the surprising attitudes of the Victorians, and find out how we came to view sex the way we do today.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Alix poses the difficult question of whether sexual tastes built around inequality can be compatible with feminism. We hear views from a variety of kinky women (and some men), take a fairly un-kinky couple to their first bondage workshop, and explore the history of the world’s first Lesbian S&M organisation.

In 2008, 20-year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast-forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness, launched a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery. More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast shows picked up the story until the stranger, whose name is Neil Laybourn, was found, and - in an emotional and touching moment - the pair reunited and have remained firm friends ever since.

Sequel to the extraordinary The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s Fear is the second instalment of this superb fantasy trilogy from Patrick Rothfuss. This is the most exciting fantasy series since George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and a must for all fans of HBO's Game of Thrones.

As the Wheel turns, the winds of fate roil across the land. Rand al 'Thor struggles to unite the nations for the Last Battle when the Dark One will break free into the world to spring the snares laid by the immortal Forsaken for unwary humankind. The White Tower in Tar Valon, under the Amyrlin Elaida, has decided that Rand must be controlled immediately.

Alix sets out to see just how mainstream kink has become, considering its presence in pop culture, kink-friendly pubs, and even university societies. With this popularity, though, comes the need to stay safe. While considering the importance of consent, Alix comes upon a piece of very recent legal history that sets a surprisingly low bar for how kinky people are actually allowed to be....

Ida Belle, Fortune, and Gertie are gearing up for the big day - Ida Belle’s wedding to Walter - but when the caterer goes missing just a week before the big day, it puts a huge black mark on the joyous celebration. Molly Broussard is no stranger to being in the limelight, so when the former cage fighter turned in her boxing gloves for pots and pans, everyone who knew her was surprised...until they ate her food.