It's the coldest winter in Hull for years. When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly woman hasn't been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her in the bath, encased in ice: the heating off; the windows open; the whole house frozen over. It could be a macabre accident, but McAvoy senses murder. As he starts to uncover the victim's story and her connections to a lost fishing trawler, his boss Trish is half a...

The young man's corpse lies tangled in the roots of a fallen tree, two silver coins nailed through his eyes. Who would torture their victim in such a brutal way - and why? DS McAvoy makes the victim a promise: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice comes at a cost, and this time it may be McAvoy's own family who pay the price.

When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It's not until a second player--the first victim's mistress and pickleball partner--is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and it's up to her to find out who. With the first victim's widow breathing down Lew's...

Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. When the body of a retired artist is discovered atop the blackened embers of the town bonfire, the community is rocked to the core. It falls to DI Fenella Sallow and her team to find out how she came to be there. In her fifties, the veteran detective inspector thought she had seen it all. But behind the curtained windows and closed doors of the idyllic Cumbria...