Publisher's Synopsis
First four instalments of the crime series written and produced by Lynda La Plante. In 'Trial and Retribution I', a major police search operation led by DI Pat North (Kate Buffery) swings into action after Anita Harris (Helen McCrory)'s five-year-old daughter, Julie Anne (Millie Ricks) goes missing. When the police find the young girl's naked body wedged into a sewer pipe, the search escalates into an emotionally-charged murder investigation, with Julie Anne's violent stepfather Peter (Lee Ross) and local alcoholic misfit Michael Dunn (Rhys Ifans) as the prime suspects. In 'Trial and Retribution II', Detective Superintendent Walker (David Hayman) leads a murder investigation when a serial killer murders a string of women, each time removing one of his victims' breasts and using an unusual arrow-headed weapon. Despite damning evidence and a swift arrest, the mysterious and charismatic suspect, Damon Morton (Iain Glenn) seems to be able to manipulate his employees into constructing a rock-solid alibi. A complex and dramatic trial ensues... In 'Trial and Retribution III', Cassie Booth (Candice Mandeville), a fifteen-year-old girl, goes missing while doing her paper round. When her blood-stained clothes are found in a boathouse in Putney, a murder investigation is launched, led by Detective Superintendent Walker (David Hayman). Richard E. Grant plays Stephen Warrington, an eccentric oddball who, along with the boathouse owner Karl Wilding (Anthony Higgins), becomes one of the prime suspects. In 'Trial and Retribution IV', DI North (Kate Buffery) is assigned to re-investigate an eight-year-old murder case in which James McCready (James Wilby) was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows (Steven Hartley). When she discovers that her colleague, Detective Superintendent Walker (David Hayman) led the original police inquiry, North begins to wonder if he is hiding something...
