Questa serie si immerge nella cruda realtà di un'unità di polizia specializzata di Londra, incaricata di risolvere morti inspiegabili. Ambientato sullo sfondo suggestivo di Soho, ogni episodio approfondisce le oscure complessità della natura umana e delle motivazioni. I lettori seguiranno detective determinati mentre navigano in un labirinto di segreti e bugie alla ricerca della giustizia. È un'esplorazione avvincente del crimine, delle conseguenze e delle ombre che si nascondono sotto la superficie della città.
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station.
Histoire d'un flic qui, par désespoir et nostalgie du " bon vieux temps ", s'est réfugié dans une quête éperdue, impitoyable de la justice. Portrait, aussi, d'un tueur psychopathe, pervers, implacable et plein d'une étrange bonne conscience. Avec une galerie de pauvres types, d'indics, de malfrats miteux et de traîtres distingués.
A man's corpse is discovered in a Rotherhithe warehouse, chopped up, boiled to avoid identification, and bundled into five Waitrose carrier bags. Our nameless narrator from A14 - the 'Unexplained Deaths' division of the Met - is put on the case. Operating, as usual, the narrator's investigations uncover much more than the murderer.
Raymond's nameless detective leave London for a remote village called Thornhill, where he's meant to be looking into the disappearance of a local doctor's wife.
Ou donc est-elle allée, la belle Marianne qui réjouissait par ses chansons la bonne société de ce patelin de la campagne anglaise ? Et pourquoi reste-t-il invisible, ce chef de la police locale ? Et quel jeu joue-t-il, ce chef d'entreprise de pompes funebres ? Serait-ce que dans les petites villes, les malfrats valent largement ceux des grandes métropoles ? schovat popis
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates and discovers that Suarez's death is more bizarre than suspected.