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- In the midst of a strike at a local coal mine, DCI Bain finds himself investigating the murder of 17-year old Lesley Price, a local prostitute. She had witnessed a scab being beaten up by some of the strikers and then got into a car believed to be owned by Roderick Tate, the strike leader. Bain comes under political pressure from local Labour party officials to either arrest Tate or leave him alone. He also has to deal with the local constabulary who object to Bain being on their patch and who have a similar unsolved murder from three years before. When a local man confesses to the killing, Bain refuses to accept the evidence and remains convinced Tate is their man.
- Investigating a suspicious suicide in a tightly knit community, Bain wants to close the case and go home. Prompted by his daughter, Hannah, he digs deeper, unearthing a dark secret that binds three couples together.
- A young pregnant woman is killed by her jealous foster brother. A witness to the crime won't come forward, and the killer's brother is a policeman who covers for him. With this kind of stonewalling, will Bain get his man?
- DI Bain and the squad have two murder cases to investigate. The first involves the death of two brothers, Lewis and Dafydd Pemberton, found at the bottom of a lake. The post-mortem reveals that one of the brothers was shot while the other drowned. The second case involves the death of Catrin Gwillym, the daughter of Sir Isaac Gwillym, a prominent local citizen. She is killed accidentally by by loggers but was in a pit with her hands bound. Sir Isaac advises the police that he was estranged from his daughter and was not even aware that she was in the area. As the investigation continues, the police uncover a long history between the Pembertons and the Gwillyms and an explanation for the crimes.
- Bain tracks a sexually disturbed killer who holds his victims captive. At the same time, he copes with a new constable at the station: his daughter, Hannah, whose courage and inexperience soon put her in danger.
- The death of a young Pakistani man looks like a hate crime, but is it? Racial tension is the last thing the community needs, and it's up to Bain and his team to keep the situation from escalating into full-scale violence.
- When the charred remains of a body are found inside a burned-out car, Bain travels to a town where vigilante justice prevails. Despite the locals' disrespect, he attempts to unravel an unsettling chain of events that led to murder.
- A couple commits a desperate act when their only daughter falls into a coma after a routine surgery. All they want is a public admission of guilt from the surgeon; all Baine wants is to prevent another tragedy.
- Bain goes undercover at a seedy seaside resort to investigate a young woman's murder. Then Hannah shows up for her own holiday, much to her father's chagrin.
- The police investigate the death of a young man who is found in an incineration pit meant for diseased animals. The police confirm that the young man was a rent boy but the subsequent autopsy shows that he was quite drunk and on drugs and choked on his own vomit. They focus on Roy Earland whose house was nearby, but after he commits suicide they look elsewhere. Although no longer a murder investigation, Bain continues a full investigation into the boy's death looking for the man who used him and provided the drugs. At home meanwhile, Bain is concerned about his daughter's behavior as she starts dating a local rugby player.
- Plagued with nightmares about the death of his wife--killed 12 years earlier by a drunk driver--Bain takes a leave of absence to seek revenge against the man who ruined his life.
- Called in to investigate a five-year-old corpse found beneath a parking lot, Bain suspects a local crime dynasty and their ruthless matriarch. While tracking down leads, he confronts his own attitudes towards wealth and power.
- A wooded sanctuary in a small rural village has become a battleground between big business and local environmentalists. Investigating a string of violent killings, Bain is caught between two militant and potentially dangerous groups.
- DCI Noel Bain finds himself under suspicion of murder when Rachel Hardcastle's husband is found beaten to death. Bain had only met Rachel the week before when she performed at a concert. She took an immediate liking to him and they spent a good deal of time together. Few of Bain's colleagues believe that he would have anything to do with murder, but as they cannot investigate one of their own, an officer from another force is brought in. When forensic evidence linking him to the murder is found, Bain is detained.
- Things are not going well for DCI Bain. At home, 17-year old daughter Hannah increasingly resents him as a policeman, all the more so that he had to arrest someone she had become close to, and packs her bags. With her whereabouts unknown, Bain's work is affected as he increasingly focuses of personal rather than professional responsibilities. With a gangland war brewing and tit for tat murders, an arrest goes bad when armed officers shoot both Bain and Mrs. Tam, the suspects mother. On being released from hospital, Bain takes some time off and is unaware that the oldest of the Tam brothers, Matthew, has escaped from prison, apparently with only one objective in mind: kill DCI Bain.
- DCI Noel Bain and his team investigate the murder of Dilwyn Collier. He is found nude in the woods having been run over by a car, beaten and shot and near what was apparently a grave he was forced to dig himself. As the investigation proceeds, they focus their interests on a nearby ashram where Collier's daughter Joanna now lived. What they learn is that the ashram may be more a money-making enterprise and less of a religious center - and there may be an illegal drugs connection. At least one irate relative, whose wealthy brother has become a resident and generous donor, is convinced the ashram is up to no good. A second murder however shows them that despite what they've learned about the center, the solution to Collier's murder may lie elsewhere.
- Abandoned by his ambitious father and left to care for his mentally ill mother, the son of a local politician vows revenge. Bain follows a trail of fire to learn the truth about the family's past.
- When a teenager turns up dead in a Celtic burial ground, the top suspects are her scorned boyfriend and the local psychic who discovered her. Inconsolable with grief, the victim's family decides to take justice into their own hands.
- When a successful pop singer suddenly retires and comes home to Wales, not everyone applauds her decision. Then two of her closest business associates are murdered, and unless Bain can stop the killer, she may be next.
- When a 15-year-old girl is found murdered, a pedophile living alone in the forest is easy to blame. But Bain knows that simple answers aren't always the right ones, and he steps in to help a young colleague solve the case.
- The police investigate the murder of Janice Johnson who was found beaten to death in her holiday caravan. Her young son Luke has run away and the police believe he may have witnessed the murder. Luke is actually being hidden by Lisa Hailes, a disturbed young woman who is the daughter of the holiday camp manager. In charge of the investigation is DCI Noel Bain, a widower with a teenage daughter. As the investigation develops, it is clear that there are goings on at the camp that some are prepared to kill to keep hidden.