about the show

Based on Elizabeth George's best-selling crime novels, these compelling murder mysteries sustain an engaging dynamic between Scotland Yard detectives from very different sides of the tracks: suave, sophisticated DI Thomas Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton, and his prickly, plebian sidekick, DS Barbara Havers, who makes up for in intelligence what she lacks in breeding.

In Series Six, when the body of Lynley's godson is discovered more than a decade after his disappearance, Lynley is drawn into the case, leading him first to Rome and then deep into the middle of a new murder enquiry - in which Lynley himself becomes the prime suspect.

And, Lynley and Havers friendship is pushed to its limits in a high-profile, psychologically-chilling investigation into the abduction of two teenage girls from a leafy London suburb.