Peter Grainger

The story opens with the apparently accidental drowning of a sixth form student in the Norfolk countryside....

When a local man, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, goes missing, his parents have good reason to be concerned. Emily Willows is a friend of the family and says that she knows just the person to find him....

"So I thought I might take up paragliding. You know, buy one on eBay and just jump off the cliff one morning"....  

Change is afoot at Kings Lake Central police station. A most unexpected new detective inspector takes up his post this Monday, and the oldest detective in the place takes a momentous decision....

Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfast....

Two weeks of rest and recuperation - that's what the doctor ordered. Detective Sergeant DC Smith is almost looking forward to it. And then there is a knock on the door....

In the peace and tranquility of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith....

When a worker goes missing from a North Sea gas platform, there seem to be just two possible explanations - it was a tragic accident or a suicide....

When another resident of the Rosemary House care home is found dead in her chair one Saturday evening, no one is very surprised - not until the results of a routine post-mortem....

When 14-year-old Zoe Johnson doesn't come home on a Monday night in early December, the alarm bells in Kings Lake Central police station do not ring straight away - after all, she's from the Dockmills, one of the toughest estates in the town....