DCI Banks

When two police officers are sent to a house following a report of a disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead and the other fighting for their career.

Inspector Banks concludes the chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit.

When DCI Banks investigates the murder of an inhabitant of a canal boat destroyed in a fire, evidence quickly points to the victim being involved in a lucrative art forgery scam. With a second body discovered, confusion mounts as to the intended victim of the murderer and Banks becomes convinced that one of the victims' relatives is withholding vital information. However, his determination to prove their involvement brings him into conflict with DS Annie Cabbot. Soon Annie has begun an affair with the art expert on the investigation, Mark Keane; has she crossed the line?

Tom McMahon has died in a second suspicious fire in his own house. Warned by his superiors from contacting the Aspern's, Banks focuses his investigation on the ringleader of the art forgery scam. When Banks discovers that Annie and Mark Keane, art expert in the investigation, have started a relationship, he immediately disapproves, worried that their actions will seriously compromise the case. With Banks determined to prove a connection between the Aspern's and the murders, Banks realises too late who the serial killer might be and that Annie's life is now in grave danger...

When Annie investigates the murder of a paralysed and disfigured woman found on the Moors with a slit throat, her first case as Senior Investigating Officer quickly becomes one of her most challenging. As the real identity of the victim becomes apparent, Annie soon establishes that any number of suspects might have had reason to want her dead. Meanwhile, Banks attends to a teenage girl's body found down an alleyway in Eastvale. How did the killer get into the alleyway without being seen?

With DC Kevin Templeton a second alleyway murder victim, finding the killer becomes personal for DCI Banks and his team. When Timothy Randall - initially arrested for the murder of Hayley Daniels - is cleared, Banks finds his investigation back at square one. Meanwhile, Annie tries to push a connection between her original investigation and the murder of DC Templeton, but is largely shot down. Yet unknown to both officers, there is a traitor amongst them and as Templeton's murderer is finally uncovered, the case forces a highly personal revelation from Annie.

DCI Banks is drawn into the criminal underworld of Soho, when he reluctantly accepts an unofficial request from his superior officer, Chief Superintendent Rydell, to find his missing daughter. Banks gets lucky and finds Emily living with a dangerous drug dealer. As Banks tries to persuade Emily to come home, an armed robbery in Eastvale has turned into a murder investigation but DS Annie Cabbot struggles to identify any suspects. When a battered body is found in an Eastvale nightclub, the shocking identity of the victim leads Banks and Annie to a devastating realization about both cases.

With Emily Rydell dead, apparently brutally beaten, DCI Banks quickly finds himself at the heart of a murder investigation with any number of suspects. When a surveillance operation establishes a clear link between the murder of Charles McKay and dealer Barry Clough, Banks and Annie realise that the two cases must be connected. Their investigation uncovers a conspiracy pointing to one of their own team being a criminal informer. But as Banks pushes all the suspects hard, the case threatens to undermine his own integrity as an officer and brings his relationship with Annie to breaking point.