Warren Clarke

The death of a young girl at a local fair is the third recent case of bizarre ritual murder for Dalziel and Pascoe. The serial killer is known as the Choker because of his habit of strangling his victims. As the murders continue, the police turn to a fortune-teller for clues. Meanwhile, Pascoe's home life is in disarray as he tries to come to terms with fatherhood.

When Dalziel pays a visit to an old friend, Stella Moon, the landlady of a quiet village pub, he's shocked to find himself at the centre of an armed siege involving Stella's husband, a Falklands veteran. It's not long before armed police surround the pub, but Pascoe has little confidence in the officer in charge. He'd be a lot less happy if he knew Dalziel was one of the hostages.

Following a long campaign protesting her innocence, Cissy Kohler has been released from jail after serving 35 years for murder. Now Dalziel finds himself under investigation for her wrongful conviction. To save his reputation Dalziel decides to re-investigate the murder from 1963 and finds that it may have been a case of national security rather than a crime of passion.

Flamboyant businessman and Dalziel's old friend, Dick Elgood, accuses one of his employees, rose-enthusiast Patrick Alderman, of trying to murder him. When Pascoe starts to investigate, he discovers a trail of suspicious deaths in Alderman's past. Meanwhile, attending a police conference, Dalziel bumps into an old flame, but his fumbling attempts to rekindle the passion result in a bloody nose.

While visiting old friends in rural Oxfordshire, Pascoe and a heavily pregnant Ellie are devastated when they discover the bodies of their hostess Rose and two of her guests all shot dead and another friend missing. Meanwhile in Yorkshire, Dalziel is investigating a series of burglaries, in which the thief leaves a bizarre calling card, and discovers a link with a flamboyant antiques trader.

Dalziel becomes involved in a game of psychological one-up-manship, with a clever dangerous killer, who invents almost deliberately implausible alibis when his nearest and dearest begin to die around him.

Peter Pascoe and Ellie Soper finally take the plunge and get married, so Dalziel decides to have a holiday of his own. That is until the son of his hostess goes missing and the discovery of a body in the lake. It's all left down to Dalziel to solve the pr

The dramatic appearance of a mysterious man at the funeral of a wealthy woman sets tongues wagging in a small Yorkshire village. As members of the grieving family squabble over her estate, they are horrified when the stranger claims to be her long-lost son.

Colin Briggs (Clive Owen) is a man who has given up on life. Near the end of a long sentence for murder, Colin meets Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), an eccentric "lifer" who gives Colin an unwanted packet of seeds as a Christmas present. He begrudgingly plants the seeds in Edgefield's hard, infertile soil and, much to both men's surprise; the seeds flourish along with the two men's friendship. When the prison garden attracts the attention of flamboyant...