A new case becomes personal when Banks discovers that his brother Roy is missing and Roy's girlfriend has been shot dead.

The police discover that Jennifer and Roy were involved in a prostitution ring,Roy importing women through his travel agency,though business partner Lambert claims ignorance. Because he is related to a victim Banks is taken off the case but D.I. Morton agrees to let him help in an advisory role,warning him he may be in danger. He seeks out Carmen,the face of the escort agency fronting the prostitution racket and finds that she is pregnant.That pregnancy,linked to a baby-selling arrangement,holds the key to the double murders.

Banks is called in to investigate the death of a mild-mannered accountant who appears to be the victim of a contract killing.

Banks defies orders by informally speaking to Martin Fleming on his own though he gets no results. Tom Rothwell returns from America for his father's funeral and tells the police he fell out with his father after seeing him with another woman. Pamela identifies her attacker as a rough-looking Irishman named by police records as Arthur Jameson,an arms fan and former client of Norcliffe but Jameson kills himself before he can be questioned. Following Tom's information Banks discovers that the woman in question was not Pamela. The trail leads to a house where all is ...

The strangling of a wealthy financier's 16-year-old daughter unearths a complex web of lies and secrets for Banks to solve.

Banks gets a call-out to Owen Pierce's house,which has been vandalised whilst Owen was in prison but Banks makes it clear he still believes Owen was the killer. However after Helen has seen CCTV footage of Ellie getting into a car with somebody who is not Owen Pierce Becca comes forward to say that Tyler Judd sexually threatened her and was perpetually shadowing Ellie after she dumped him. Then Becca is found dead in the same spot as Ellie. Focus now switches to Judd,who admits to stealing Simon Harris's car after Simon warned him off Ellie. This in turn leads to the ...