British detective series

It is Autumn 2020, and the nation is tentatively emerging from its first lockdown. Streets remain abnormally quiet even as businesses start to reopen. But anxiety still dominates this strange world and evil haunts the shadows. Desperately seeking two lost children, Greg is distracted by hare-coursers, vehicle thefts and a particularly reckless arsonist targeting farms. Then his investigation uncovers long buried crimes and he’s hit by a personal disaster that will call on all his resilience.

In the midst of a global pandemic, Greg Geldard grapples with the harsh reality that the streets may be quieter, but danger doesn’t vanish - it simply finds new hiding places. Homes that should be safe havens become traps and cherished plans are overturned by personal tragedies.

A mutilated body, a missing colleague, a bent copper and schoolchildren being groomed for organised crime. The common theme is revenge. Then as Greg moves fast to rescue a friend, his riverside home and everything he loves are also targeted.

Ritual burials are rare. Finding them - rarer still. When three turn up, Greg Geldard knows he has a problem. Can he find the killer’s latest victim before it’s too late?

With successful convictions from his last bomb are in the bag, Greg Geldard might be forgiven for anticipating a period of quiet routine. He doesn’t get it. Threats to a government laboratory and danger for someone close to him make life complicated. Then he’s posed an ethical conundrum in court. Can hate ever be wholly sane?

When the body of a farm worker is found during a turkey cull, the incident falls to DCI Greg Geldard to investigate. Newly promoted and newly transferred from North Yorkshire to Norfolk, he is about to face the most challenging case of his career. As he uncovers evidence of organised crime and modern slavery, the body count rises, a friend is threatened and he struggles to bring the murderer to justice.

Goat farmer, cheese maker and weaver Tristan Smith is working on her North Yorkshire smallholding when a chance visit by archaeologists exposes a skeleton in an abandoned WW2 bunker. But it’s not a wartime casualty. Tristan becomes involved in the search for the truth about her predecessors, as DI Geldard follows a trail from North Yorkshire to the Norfolk Broads. He is seeking justice for a long-dead victim; but another casualty is hunting for a new life and a safe place to start again.