Showing results for "Jimmy" in Police Procedurals

På föräldrakooperativet Solhatten i Saltsjöbaden ska barnen just lägga sig för vilostund. Förskolläraren Inger smiter ut för att ta ett samtal–men när hon återvänder möts hon av en levande mardröm: barn skriker, flera är skadade och mitt i rummet ringlar en lång orm över golvet. Chocken är total. Och snart visar det sig att det inte rör sig om en olycka–någon har medvetet släppt in faran bland barnen.

On a clear, moonlit night in December, police detective Jimmy Vega races to the scene of a reported home invasion in an upscale New York community. As Vega arrives, he spots a Hispanic man who fits the description of the armed intruder running from the victim's estate. Vega chases him into the woods. When the suspect refuses to surrender - and reaches into his pocket - Vega has only seconds to make a life-or-death decision.

Tied to a derelict pier on Orkney, the bloated remains of a man bob in the waves, under the shadow of forbidding Sandisquoy House. The locals know him as William Spencer. But DCI Lukas Mahler identifies him as Alex Fleming - his former boss. Unable to step away from the case, Mahler tries to piece together why Fleming would retire to such a remote location. But the deeper he digs, the more disturbing the investigation becomes.

Award-winning 'Queen of Crime' Val McDermid has sold over 17 million books worldwide, and been translated into over 40 languages. Her Wire in the Blood series was adapted for TV, starring Robson Green and Hermione Norris, and ran for six seasons. Included here are full-cast adaptations of several of her acclaimed novels, as well as four tales specially written for BBC Radio.