Emily Rydell has apparently been brutally beaten to death and DCI Banks quickly ends up being in the middle of a murder investigation with many suspects. After a surveillance operation establishes a link between the murder of Charles McKay and Brian Clough, Banks and Annie soon work out that the two cases have to be connected.

• Peter Robinson
• Nicholas Hicks-Beach

• Stephen Tompkinson
• Andrea Lowe
• Caroline Catz