Ed Bazalgette

Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbott ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the his crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a your boy ... never imagine finding a murdered journalist in a holiday chalet ... never...

When a man and a woman claiming to be social workers come to Katy Heath's house and tell her that they need to take away her son Kyle, Katy complies. But when they fail to return her son and are unknown by social services, DCI Alan Banks is quickly drawn into a full-scale search for the missing boy.

With David Hornby now a suspect in the case, Annie is forced to admit that the father of her baby doesn't know anything about her pregnancy. Banks tries to be supportive, but soon Annie finds juggling the affections of her boss and her former lover leads her to a difficult choice.

When Banks' old neighbor tells him that she has discovered a gun in her teenage daughter's bedroom, his instinct is to quietly retrieve the weapon. But when Helen convinces him that she should lead a firearms team to take possession of the gun 'by the book', neither she nor Banks foresees that the incident will lead to an innocent man being critically injured.