Nine years ago divorcee Marcia Brown took her own life. A pillar of the community she had been accus..

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find h..

Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising - after retiring from the police service he's been promoted to ..

A governmental think-tank whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service has lo..

When Vivian Howe author of 13 novels and mother of three grown-up children is killed in a hit-and-ru..

When ex-copper Terry Coats was discovered in bed with an air hostess his excuse that he was 'going u..

When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion Police Scotland has a tough c..

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner may have left the police service but he's never far from a case. ..

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys two princes walking b..

September 1940. As Luftwaffe bombs rain from the skies over London the women of Lavender Road are fi..

Former Chief Constable Bob Skinner has uncovered his fair share of crime scenes over his thirty-year..

When Kent Abner - baby doctor model husband and father good neighbour - is found dead in his town ho..

Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

The twentieth century is drawing to a close and the Russians are up to all sorts of dirty tricks in ..

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..