With three kids at home and one on the way, Janine earns a promotion and a big case- the murder a teacher found eviscerated. A former student with a grudge seems the likeliest suspect but the victim's wife arouses suspicions.

Janine faces increasing pressure from her boss to conclude the case. But when her team turns up drug deals and violent homemade pornographic videos, Janine insists on following the evidence and her instincts.

While dropping off her son Tom at school, Janine takes a call about a body fished from the river. Seconds later, she witnesses a hit-and-run outside the school and tears off in hot pursuit.

After the cremation of a suicide victim, evidence shows that a second body also burned in the coffin. Matters are complicated with the victim’s husband and a crematorium worker go missing.

When a pretty young child-care provider is murdered, the crime proves anything but simple for Janine and Richard- and their sole eyewitness, an autistic boy, refuses to speak, even to his parents.

Eddie Carter was a copper’s cop, a bloke who preferred walking the beat to climbing the greased pole of promotions within the police department. When he dies in a drive-by shooting, though, Janine and her team turn up some surprising and devastating details that dovetail with their investigation of a jewel heist gone wrong.