Amanda Burton

While Cambridge police detectives interview witnesses who may or may not tell the truth, 'Sam' extracts revealing truths from calcified bones, decomposed and charred bodies, tell-tale bruises and overlooked fingerprints. Brace yourself for twists and turns in four gripping episodes: the suspicious drowning of a six-year-old girl, the apparently ritual killing of a young man, a death in police custody, and the fiery murder of a refugee's business partner....

Searching for the truth but never compromising, forensic pathologist Professor Sam Ryan is prepared to investigate crimes and interview witnesses herself if she is unhappy with the conclusions reached by the police. Aided by her dynamic colleagues, Dr. Leo Dalton and junior pathologist Harry Cunningham, she and her team are presented with four more mysteries to solve.

If the living told the truth, forensic pathologist Dr. Samantha Ryan wouldn't have to spend so much time examining the dead. The living want us to believe that an Asian boxer died of a fatal blow in an exhibition fight, an AIDS sufferer died of AIDS, a young woman was stabbed by her jealous husband, and an old woman was beaten to death by a violent alcoholic. But the dead tell different stories with their grim clues in this powerful crime- thriller....

After violence comes the silence of the dead, yielding gruesome evidence to a formidable team of forensic pathologists and scientists.

An orphaned girl comes to live with her wealthy, embittered aunt in an English village. She soon charms everyone but her aunt, who is not won over until both are confronted with tragedy.

Clare Blake is New Scotland Yard's highest-ranking woman officer. Icy-cool, ambitious but reckless, she lets her personal life bleed into her career, defying convention and risking her reputation. Amanda Burton stars as the female cop who crosses the line in taut police dramas from Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante.

"Newly promoteed, Commander Clare Blake vows no cover-ups. At the same time, DCI Hedges conceals evidence of his involvement in the police shooting of an unarmed civilian, Lionel Cripps. Blake looks into the Cripps matter but is soon distracted by the handsome James Lampton. A convicted murderer just out of prison, where Blake put him 12 years ago, Lampton persuades her that he's rehabilitated and charms her into an affair. Then a young nurse is found...

"Commander Blake is in trouble. Her relationship with convicted killer James Lampton made the tabloids, and her supervisors are not amused. Her sister has cancer and has moved into her flat. She's being stalked by a schizophrenic woman with an axe to grind. To top it all off, a murderous hacker breaks into hospital computers and alters medical records with fatal consequences. As patients keep dying, one family demands compensation; or is it blackmail?"--Container....

"A young woman disappears from a nightclub, and a mental patient escapes from a hospital. Hours later, the two are found together covered in her blood. She's been stabbed to death, and his fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. It seems like a cut and dried case except for a few details: the girl is Commander Blake's goddaughter, and the patient could not have killed her. When rumpled Dutch detective Van Hauten arrives with details of similar...

A crown prosecutor, Helen West struggles to find justice for those wronged as well as keep her own messy life in order.