The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

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

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ A Great Deliverance

Mon, Mar 12, 2001

After a farmer is found decapitated, aristocratic Detective Inspector Lynley is assigned to the case with a resentful new partner, D.S. Barbara Havers.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Well Schooled in Murder

Mon, Apr 8, 2002

When an old school friend contacts Lynley about a missing schoolboy, the inspector soon has to launch a murder inquiry.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Payment in Blood

Mon, Apr 15, 2002

After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ For the Sake of Elena

Mon, Apr 22, 2002

When the deaf daughter of a Cambridge professor is found brutally murdered while jogging, Lynley finds she has led a promiscuous lifestyle.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Missing Joseph

Mon, Apr 29, 2002

Rev. Robin Sage dies after eating a meal prepared by Juliet Spence, an expert herbalist who should know the difference between wild parsnips and deadly hemlock.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Playing for the Ashes

Mon, Mar 10, 2003

Lynley seeks the help of profiler Helen Clyde when he investigates the asphyxiation death of superstar cricketer with a dysfunctional personal life.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ In the Presence of the Enemy

Mon, Mar 17, 2003

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.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ A Suitable Vengeance

Mon, Mar 24, 2003

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.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Deception on His Mind

Mon, Mar 31, 2003

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.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

Thu, Mar 4, 2004

When the daughter of a retired police officer and a male friend are found beaten to death, Lynley brings in the recently demoted Havers to help.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ A Traitor to Memory

Thu, Mar 11, 2004

Lynley is assigned to the hit and run of a woman while attending an anniversary party at his superior officer's house.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ A Cry for Justice

Thu, Mar 18, 2004

Havers is reinstated as DS and immediately volunteers to go undercover in a case involving a murder made to look like suicide.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ If Wishes Were Horses

Thu, Mar 25, 2004

Lynley investigates the car bomb murder of a womanizing forensic pathologist whose list of former lovers includes Helen. Fraught and angry, lynley struggles to hold himself together with mixed emotions tussling conversely with his seemingly impeccable professional etiquette as an upstanding police officer

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ In Divine Proportion

Thu, Mar 17, 2005

The unusual shotgun murder of an interior decorator is linked to the rape and subsequent suicide of her sister fifteen years earlier.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ In the Guise of Death

Thu, Mar 24, 2005

Havers and Lynley have taken different paths to Cornwall, but end up at the same destination - a barn containing an apparent suicide and a lot of money.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Seed of Cunning

Thu, Mar 31, 2005

Lynley and Havers investigate the beating death of a doorkeeper at Parliament.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Word of God

Thu, Apr 7, 2005

An illegal Jordanian immigrant is found strangled in a meat locker with a page from the priceless "Golden Koran" is found on his person.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Natural Causes

Thu, Jul 20, 2006

Even though Lynley is suspended from duty and Havers is assigned to DI Fiona Knight, whose methods differ from his, he involves himself in their latest case.

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ One Guilty Deed

Thu, Jul 27, 2006

The case against a mobster seems to fall apart with the killing of a potential informant.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ Chinese Walls

Thu, Aug 3, 2006

Lynley investigates the murder of a 23 year old girl in Hyde Park after she quit her job with a high profile lawyer to work for an on-line sex site.

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ In the Blink of an Eye

Mon, Jan 8, 2007

The murder of a former war photographer turned paparazzi seems linked is Bosnian war crimes and a prominent London crime kingpin.

1Season 6

S6.E1 ∙ Limbo

Sun, Nov 11, 2007

The investigation into a 12-year old disappearance is revived, and Lynley gets involved since he is a friend of the victim's family.

2Season 6

S6.E2 ∙ Know Thine Enemy

Sun, Nov 18, 2007

The body of a missing schoolgirl is found in a lake wrapped in rubble sacks and chains. An abused wife holds the key, with her husband a major suspect.