Suspects

Martha, Jack and Charlie face a race against time when two year-old Hope Wilkins is snatched from her cot. Could her abductor be one of her own family? Or has someone more sinister taken the child?

With one victim dead, and another critical in hospital, there is a deadly batch of drugs in circulation. D.I. Martha and her team need to find the dealer and get the drugs off the streets before anyone else is killed.

In their hunt for a vicious serial rapist, Martha, Jack and Charlie discover that the latest victim is their own Chief Superintendent’s wife. They must put the boss under as much scrutiny as their other suspects – and when they do, what they find is truly shocking...

Jack and Charlie are called to the house of a prominent right-to-die campaigner, where all signs point to an assisted suicide – until Martha and the team realise that the victim was surrounded by people with a motive for murder.

Martha, Jack and Charlie investigate the shocking stabbing of a schoolgirl in one of the roughest parks in London – but what was she doing there so late at night? It emerges that the victim is underage – and pregnant. So who stabbed her - and who is the father of her baby?

In part one of the fast-paced series opener, Martha’s neighbour, barrister Jonathan Moxton, is found at home with serious head injuries, his wrists bound with a belt and a pair of knickers stuffed in his mouth. Jack guesses that he was involved in a sex game which went badly wrong.