Season 1
5 episodes
102 min. per episode
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An aristocratic detective and his gritty partner unravel dark secrets, challenging class divides while confronting their own haunting pasts.
Episodes
After a farmer is found decapitated, aristocratic Detective Inspector Lynley is assigned to the case with a resentful new partner, D.S. Barbara Havers.
When an old school friend contacts Lynley about a missing schoolboy, the inspector soon has to launch a murder inquiry.
After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.
When the deaf daughter of a Cambridge professor is found brutally murdered while jogging, Lynley finds she has led a promiscuous lifestyle.
Rev. Robin Sage dies after eating a meal prepared by Juliet Spence, an expert herbalist who should know the difference between wild parsnips and deadly hemlock.
British crime investigation series based around aristocratic, Oxford-educated Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his working-class assistant Sergeant Barbara Havers.