When two police officers are sent to a house following a report of a disturbance, they stumble upon a truly horrific scene. A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter. He is desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for their career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquillity of the Yorkshire Dales provides a striking and contrasting backdrop in this thrilling psychological drama that brings Peter Robinson's fictional detective to the small screen for the first time.

A fire on a houseboat leads to the discovery of a charred body. DCI Banks and Annie believe they have uncovered a case of art fraud when a briefcase containing a forged painting and some cash is found on the boat.

Annie arrives at the scene of a murder on Eastvale moor to find a paralysed female in a wheelchair who has had her throat cut. Meanwhile, DCI Banks is called to the scene of a girl found murdered in an alleyway.

Banks is asked by Superintendent Gerry Rydell to track down his missing daughter, Emily, and Annie gets lumbered with an armed carjacking and the murder of a small time crook, Charles McKay.

When DCI Alan Banks receives a disturbing message from his brother Roy, he drops everything to find him, just as new recruit DI Helen Morton finds evidence linking Banks to the body of a murder victim.

A professional hitman bursts into the home of Keith Rothwell and shoots him dead.