A tale of adultery, religion and perversity as Fitz attempts to unravel a strange murder case. Meanwhile, his wife, Judith, is about to split the family assets down-the-line, leaving Fitz and his son Mark to fend for themselves.
Fitz is assisting the police in identifying a serial rapist. Floyd Malcom was scarred as a child, both physically and mentally. He now preys on women, often the wives of people he knows. His pattern is always the same: he wears a mask and after raping his victims he chats with them, as if he wants to be their friend. He's also taken to calling in to Fitz's radio talk show for a...
Fitz has to increase his lectures at several universities as he is broke. The attentions of one of his pupils leave him unaffected until he realises that she may be involved in murder and harming his family.
After having sex with a prostitute, David Harvey kills her when he finds he is unable to pay and she threatens to tell his wife. The case becomes complicated however when a second prostitute is killed and the forensic evidence indicates that it was the same killer. Only problem is that Harvey was in custody at the time of the second killing. Fitz is convinced that Harvey killed...
The police investigate the murder of a 13-year old boy who is found hanging in a tree in a nearby wood. The pathologist quickly determines that the boy was actually strangled and the hanging then staged. The boy was gay and was the subject of much teasing and bullying at school. Based on Fitz's advice, the police focus on one of the boy's teachers, Nigel Cassidy, whom they feel...
The police have a serial killer on their hands. Two women have been killed in virtually identical circumstances, with their throats slit by what they believe is a straight razor. When they find a man unconscious on the side of railway tracks covered in blood, some of which belonged to the second victim, they're sure they have their man, but he claims complete memory loss. Psych...
Tina and Sean are two of societies rejects. Tina hates her parents and has moved out, living in a squat. Sean stutters badly except when he sings or is angry, which is the case most of the time. They meet in a pub one night and become, in Tina's words, just like Bonnie and Clyde. They first murder a local loan shark but then set their sights on one of the detectives looking for...
Albie Kinsella is angry at the world. He has just buried his father who died from a prolonged bout with cancer. Albie was a good son who took care of his father all of that time. His wife left him several years before, but he was always a good father to his daughter and always made sure his wife had enough money for their upkeep. Albie however is fed up being just another face ...
A New York sales manager is sent to the remote Scottish Highlands at Christmas to acquire a limited edition perfume from a dashing Earl preparing for his annual ball and falls in love instead.
Leila偶然发现了隐藏在她最喜爱的虚拟现实游戏Azana中的「红色药丸」—— 一个绝密的天堂。母亲去世后，Leila陷入了深深的孤独感。所幸她为自己创造了一个数字身份「影疾」，可以在游戏世界中暂时忘掉烦恼。每当登入虚拟现实游戏Azana之后，她才感觉自己真正活着。在这个令 人惊叹的虚拟之地，Leila遇到了神秘的游戏角色Mania，她拥有Leila所没有的一切：快乐主义、任性、永不知足。当Leila发现秘密天堂「红色药丸」之后，「红色药丸」的领袖Adrian声称她不可以不请自来，然后将她的数字角色「影疾」赶出了游戏。第二天，Mania——或者说Mania的现实生活身份Tess——竟然出现在Leila工作的地方，从此进入Leila的现实生活，Leila的世界永远被改变了。Leila很快意识到，所谓的虚拟天堂不是神秘庇护所，也不是Adrian所声称的美...
Lynley is at a birthday party for the young son of some friends when the boy disappears. Twelve years later the boy's corpse is found and Lynley travels to Rome to accompany the dead boy's sister back to England for the funeral. However, the past seems to haunt her, and a break-in at her apartment leads Lynley to suspect that the 12-year old crime is still reverberating through...
Fitz, Penhaligon and the other officers at Anson Road C.I.D. attend Jimmy Beck’s funeral. Fitz meets Beck’s sister who asks him how her brother had gone so badly wrong. It turns out that Beck had talked about Fitz constantly when he rang home and his sister wanted to put a face to a “friend”. Penhaligon causes a scene at the wake when she gets very drunk. Fitz calls her a taxi ...
