Plongez dans les paysages pittoresques mais périlleux du Lake District, où chaque mystère met au jour des secrets sombres cachés sous la surface sereine. Cette série mêle habilement le suspense de la fiction policière classique à un riche contexte historique qui ajoute des couches d'intrigue à chaque affaire. Suivez l'acuité intellectuelle de ses protagonistes captivants alors qu'ils démêlent des meurtres complexes et découvrent des histoires oubliées depuis longtemps. Un incontournable pour les amateurs de thrillers atmosphériques et d'intrigues complexes.
Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, move to Brackdale, a valley in the Lake Distict, in the hopes of starting a new life. But when DCI Hannah Scarlett launches a cold case review into an old crime, Daniel and Hannah soon find themselves risking their lives as they search for a killer who is prepared to murder again to hide a shocking secret.
In the peaceful village of Old Sawrey, Warren Howe is brutally slaughtered with his own scythe by a mysterious hooded figure. Years later a tip-off sparks the interest of DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the local Cold Case Review Team. With the help of historian Daniel Kind, Hannah digs and discovers that, in Old Sawrey, old sins cast long shadows.
Historian Daniel Kind is finding winter in the Lake District tough, especially as he fears that his girlfriend Miranda may just up and leave. She wouldn't be the first. Years ago, Emma Bestwick left and never came back, her disappearance never resolved, much to the chagrin of DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the local Cold Case Review Team.
They halted close to the water's edge. This was their destination. This was the Serpent Pool. And here, six years ago, Bethany Friend's body had been found. The Lake District's cold case specialist, DCI Hannah Scarlett, is determined to uncover the truth behind an apparent suicide in the Serpent Pool some years ago.
Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished, Orla Payne is still haunted by his disappearance. In spite of DCI Hannah Scarlett's doubt that there is anything to be done on such a long-dead case, when Orla is found dead, she discovers that investigating the past can throw up some very dangerous truths indeed.
Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in England's Lake District, each time on Hallowe'en. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by the old cases, and wonders whether the obvious suspects really did commit the crimes.
Twenty years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair. Malcolm is under financial and emotional pressure, and he begins to disintegrate psychologically. When Lysette tells Malcolm their marriage is over, he snaps, and takes out the old Winchester rifle he has been hiding from Lysette...