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Can vengeance bring justice? Is revenge really something sweet? Vanessa is back with Jason, and they have to solve a mystery in order to stop the killing, before the deadly plan is complete. Someone is seeking their own justice, and the detectives must find the answer in time to save lives.

What turns a man into a killer? Can simple words drive a man to commit murder? Detective Jason Strong must find a killer whose signature is a wine glass. That's about all the police know, except that his victims all share certain similarities. The case gets personal when someone close to Jason is targeted, and time begins to run out. In the exciting follow-up to Where's My Son?, Jason is pushed to find a way to solve this case, before the unthinkable happens.

Full-cast radio adaptations of two crime novels featuring Scotland Yard Detective, John Appleby. A Scottish novelist and academic, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, who published crime fiction under his pseudonym Michael Innes, was well-known for his detective creation DI John Appleby. This BBC...

With his first case in Stone County under his belt, former big city detective Dan Cutter is settling into rural life. While enjoying an early spring afternoon on the river bank, he makes a stunning discovery. Within hours, the entire Stone County Sheriff's Department becomes embroiled in a search for the truth that is missing on the river.

In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.

Peter Marlin's wife is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. She'd only just returned from an unexplained absence of several months. And during that time, Peter had found a new lover. Everything points to the husband but there's no real proof. Inspector John Crow is called in to help the local police. But his new colleagues aren't keen on an outsider. And Crow must solve the case before anyone else dies.

A report of a body sends homicide detective Peter Brandt to a murder scene in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. Without realizing it, he has just stepped into the case of his life. It will take all his experience and skill to find a killer unlike anyone he's encountered.

What would you do if your son went missing? How far would you go to get him back?Michael Barton comes home to find his infant son gone. There is no trace of the kidnappers, and the police have no leads. Michael is driven by a promise and he will not stop. Detective Jason Strong led the task force to find Michael's son and has become his friend. But as Michael's darkness grows, Jason fears he may be the only one who can stop him. It is a race against time, as the detective tries to stop the events that will change everyone, before it's too late.

Life is looking up for DCI John Drake. His relationship with his daughter is back on track and together, they're dealing with the trauma they suffered at the hands of the Family Man. But their respite doesn't last long. Unknown to Drake, his partner, DS Ellie Wilkinson, has her own demons to battle in the aftermath of their most recent case.

A body found lying face down in a hallway becomes former big city Detective Dan Cutter's latest Stone County case. Though the blood and witnesses suggest one thing, his gut tells him something else is going on.

An airline pilot arrives home on Easter Sunday to discover his wife's lifeless body. Experienced detective Kate Walker, and her young partner Tanner Austin, are assigned the case. They have little to go on, and their frustration quickly builds. When a second body turns up, it only deepens the mystery. Fearing there are more victims to come, the detectives push themselves to unravel a bizarre case of Denver Homicide.

A farmer and his wife make a gruesome discovery. Their 911 call brings Detective Dan Cutter out to a lonely country driveway where he finds a brutally murdered young woman. She has no identification on her, but one thing is clear: Somebody wanted to make sure she was dead. Cutter, whose still learning his way around Stone County, must track down a cold-blooded killer who brought this Jane Doe to a dead end.

Life is already complicated enough for John Lee Quarrels, what with his estranged wife dropping in for unannounced sleepovers, her oversexed sister tempting him, his pot smoking ponytailed grandfather growing his own stash, his Elvis obsessed grandmother, and being caught smack dab in the middle of a power struggle between the Sheriff and Chief Deputy. But when a road construction crew unearths the skeletons of three murder victims, John Lee suddenly finds himself on the trail of a killer who may well have died long before the deputy was even born.

Millionaire Murdo Wolf took off in a small plane from the island where he lived, and neither he nor the plane was ever seen again. Until now. The Wolf family have gathered on the island they used to call home. They're celebrating the life of their father, Oliver Wolf, who died six months ago.

Edinburgh DCI Harry McNeil isn’t easily intimidated. But after years investigating crooked cops, a promotion heading up a Major Investigation Team will put his reputation on the line. And he’s starting to sweat when the daughter of a rich and powerful family vanishes from the honeymoon suite in a Scottish Highlands castle….

As the end of the year draws to a close, Detective Chief Inspector Sean Bracken is called to a murder scene near the Writer's Museum. The body of a woman is sitting on a bench in the square, her frozen hand holding a paperback. The book is by famous American professor of psychology and crime writer Edwin Hawk, who has just ended a book tour, culminating in Edinburgh. Knowing he is the number-one suspect, Hawk sets out to convince Bracken of his innocence. But Bracken has dealt with people like Hawk before. Is the man telling the truth or using psychology to get away with murder?

Detective John Coffin must find out who killed the man belonging to the severed human head found in an urn on the church steps.

Ailsa Connolly was a brilliant psychologist and a respected criminologist. She was also a serial killer. Six years ago, DCI Sean Bracken caught her just before he was about to become her seventh victim. Every year on the anniversary of her incarceration, she taunts him with a phone call, giving him one message: "When I get out, I'll kill you." Now, Bracken has transferred back to Edinburgh and is thrown into the deep end on his first day back on duty. There's a killer who is emulating Ailsa, threatening to surpass her body count.

A bizarre discovery will thrust Jason and Vanessa into the middle of a high profile cold case, and with the temperature now red hot, they must rush to solve it and save a young girl's life. New partners and old-fashion police work, along with a little luck, are needed to help stop a killer before he can dig another fresh grave.

When a body is discovered on a carousel at the fair in The Meadows in Edinburgh, it brings back memories for DCI Harry McNeil. He had history with the man, having arrested him many years ago. The victim was a high-flying politician, destined for great things, but did his secrets catch up with him? Or were the death threats he’d received not taken seriously enough?