British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.
Cast:Nathaniel Parker , Sharon Small , Lesley Vickerage , Paul Hickey , Shaun Parkes , Catherine Russell , Anjalee Patel , June Watson , Al Weaver , David Burke , Gabrielle Drake , Barbara Wilshere , Matilda Ziegler , Sam Cox , Robert Goldsbrough , James McAvoy , Pippa Haywood , John Sessions
Lynley seeks the help of profiler Helen Clyde when he investigates the asphyxiation death of superstar cricketer with a dysfunctional personal life.
After the love child of a Liberal black MP and a white conservative newspaper editor is kidnapped, they're blackmailed into publishing details of their affair.
Tommy and Helen go to his family estate for their engagement party, but long-hidden family secrets and a murder in the extended family disrupt the celebration.
Sahlah is engaged to a young Pakistani man in an arranged marriage, but he ends up murdered as she is bearing the child of a local white man.