Based on the best-selling novels of Elizabeth George, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries find Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley (also known as the 8th Earl of Asherton) and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers solving cases of murder that would challenge the savviest of detectives. Divided by class barriers both real and imagined, but united in their efforts to uncover the truth, Lynley and Havers form an unlikely yet successful sleuthing duo. With Havers recently demoted however, working together proves even harder than usual.

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner: Nicola Maiden has been bludgeoned to death, and her camping companion Gerry Cole stabbed. When it turns out that Nicola’s father is a retired Superintendent in Vice, Lynley and Havers soon uncover dark secrets and find themselves in a murky world of prostitution and revenge.

A Traitor to Memory: Lynley and Havers are called away from DCI Webberley's wedding anniversary when Eugenie Martin is killed on a quiet London street. She had deserted her husband and son after the death of her daughter - but that death may hold a clue to her murder.

A Cry for Justice: DC Havers and DC Billy Slaven discover a woman's body, Morag MacNichol. It appears she has committed suicide, but Havers feels something is wrong and calls for assistance. When proven right, it sets Havers and Lynley in search of a killer and the answer to a large bag of money found hidden at the scene.

If Wishes Were Horses: Lynley and his pregnant wife Helen attend the funeral of Professor Dermot Finnegan, a forensic psychologist and Helen's former mentor. Could the killer be a convicted murderer Finnegan helped put away? Or one of Finnegan’s many lovers, a list of which seems to include Lynley’s wife.

The crime-cracking duo are back for a third series, investigating contemporary murder mysteries