After spending some of her compensation money learning Aikido at a retreat in Cornwall, Havers has been invited by Lynley's mother, Lady Asherton, to stay at the family estate. Lynley is also in Cornwall visiting his mother, but avoiding answering any questions about his relationship with Helen. So when horse trainer Jim Fenner, who lives on a neighboring estate, is found hanged in his stable, it is a welcome diversion to delay the inevitable questioning....

Lynley and Havers are assigned to a new case back in London, following the discovery of a body floating in the Thames. The victim, Eric Ramsey, was a doorkeeper at the House of Lords. On closer inspection, it appears that he has been savagely beaten, having had his hands tied behind his back. Initially, it looks as if the murder may be connected to Ramsey's gambling debts, but when a Clerk at the House of Lords is also murdered, events seem to point...

Lynley and Havers are called to Smithfields Market, where the body of a man has been found frozen inside a meat truck. The victim is carrying a forged British passport and a parchment covered in Arabic script ... The page turns out to be part of an immensely valuable ancient golden Koran, more than enough motive for murder. -- container.

Pairing aristocratic detective Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) with his working-class partner Barbara Havers (Sharon Small), the British series chronicles the Scotland Yard duo's efforts to crack difficult cases while dealing with each other's class differences. This collection presents all four episodes of the series' third season: in "In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner," Lynley and Havers investigate a possible grudge-killing when the daughter of...