Nicholas Renton

Kevin Whately returns for an all-new season as Inspector Lewis. With his young partner DS Hathaway (Laurence Fox), they continue solving cases in the seemingly perfect academic haven of Oxford. Lewis 5 includes the episodes below. The Soul of Genius - When botanist Liv Nash accidentally digs up the body of the recently buried Murray Hawes, Lewis and Hathaway embark upon a seemingly impossible quest. Generation of Vipers - Lewis believes a media blog...

Gently and Bacchus investigate the supposedly accidental death of "China," who was one of the inspector's ex-informants and an old friend. According to the coroner's report, China was a drunk and a vagrant who died after a fall. But when Gently starts asking questions, all he gets are cover-ups and lies. His inquiries expose a wider conspiracy that leads all the way to the local superintendent of police-and another dead body.

Inspector George Gently is a by-the-book cop from London now working in the North East of England. With the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain, the former Scotland Yard detective finds that crime occurs here the same as anywhere else. Along with his cocky young sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus, the two investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised...

Upon his release from prison, a vicious career criminal from Gently's London days seeks revenge on the detective. Allegations about the inspector start to fly and many people-Bacchus among them-are all too ready to believe the worst.

Hamish Macbeth is back for more crime fighting, romance and a proper treasure hunt in the third installment of this popular series.

Gabriel and Mr. Boldwood forsake their hearts upon the arrival of the dashing, womanizing soldier Frank Troy, who, despite being in love with another woman himself, sees a challenge in Bathsheba and sets out to win her.

Chief Inspector Michael Jericho investigates the murder of a young black man shot dead in a Notting Hill neighborhood full of racial tension. The same night, Sir Nicholas Wellesley is kidnapped outside his gentleman's club. Could the two crimes be connected?

"Detective Chief Inspector George Gently ... returns to the job six months after he and his sergeant, John Bacchus ... were gravely injured in the line of duty. Both officers appear to be on the mend, physically at least. ... At a time of changing attitudes and values in Britain, Gently and Bacchus are undergoing transitions of their own ... set in 1969"--Container.

The brother of the aspiring young sprinter admits that he was threatening to go public about Alice's affair with Carlton, and Alice's estranged husband Philip admits that he confronted Carlton before he died.

Sam and Leo are on opposing sides of a high profile court case at the Old Bailey, in which two Sikh brothers are found dead in a police cell. Leo believes that the brothers were killed in custody by the police but Sam thinks that one brother killed the other before taking his own life.