
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.



Lynley and Havers investigate the murder of a young, deaf, attractive Cambridge University student who was bludgeoned while out jogging.Havers has worries over the erratic behavior of her elderly mother
A double murder takes Inspector Lynley and a newly demoted DC Havers to look into the secrets of the daughter of a retired police officer
After discovering an apparent suicide Havers is reinstated to DS and becomes more involved when the case turns out be murder