Stephen Tompkinson returns as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks in three more chilling crime stories. As this series opens, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must learn to work with dramatic changes to his team.

Stephen Tompkinson returns as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks in three more gripping crime stories. Banks is drawn into a strange and unsettling search for a missing boy. A journalist is found dead at a holiday home in a remote village and a terrible chain of events is set in motion by the discovery of a loaded gun in a young girl's bedroom.

Three new murder mysteries ricochet through the Yorkshire territory of Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. Who killed a boy by arson and buried a young woman while she was still alive? A contract killing, an illicit affair and blackmail implicate a loan shark in Buried. Or has he been framed? And in Ghosts, the fatal stabbing of a university student might have been a routine case if Detective Inspector Helen Morton's ex-lover, an undercover cop, hadn't beaten up the primary suspect.

This season, Banks gets his teeth into career criminal Steve Richards and can't let go -- regardless of the personal or professional consequences. Other cases involve a dead teacher and student, and a kidnapping in Leeds' Chinese community.