A man dies after setting himself alight in a carpark in York. It could be suicide, but the police are called in to investigate. Detective Bea Metcalf is intrigued by the autistic young woman in Criminal Records when Patience spots a link to other cases. Yearning to feel useful, Patience jumps at the invitation to help, but it will come at a personal cost and she is hiding a big secret from Bea.

Patience wird im Zusammenhang mit dem „Burning Man"-Fall festgenommen, nachdem eine persönliche Verbindung ans Licht kommt. Bea fühlt sich verantwortlich und setzt sich dafür ein, dass Patience weiter mitarbeiten darf. Trotz Skepsis im Team erhält sie eine Rolle bei den Ermittlungen und entdeckt neue Zusammenhänge.

The team are baffled when a young woman is found dead in the dinosaur exhibit at York Museum. The investigation leads them into the shadowy world of fossil smuggling and Patience makes a startling deduction. But Patience is hurt when Bea doubts her conclusions. Meanwhile Bea is struggling to decide if she should get her son tested for ADHD.

A bestselling crime writer is found dead behind locked doors. Bea asks Patience to help with the investigation. The dead man, Harry Franklin, is one of Patience’s favorite writers and she is intrigued by his death and his reclusive life. Patience helps make an important breakthrough in the case which links back to a decades-past fire which left the writer terribly scarred and a woman dead.

A body disappears from the morgue. Is it body snatchers or did the corpse ‘walk’ away? The victim is the brother of Patience’s friend Billy, and she knows she must help. Could Billy’s brother still be alive and if he is--where has he gone and who wanted him dead? Meanwhile, Patience faces her fears of social situations to attend Bea’s birthday celebration and things don’t go quite as she hoped.

Nach dem rätselhaften Tod eines Mannes mit mehreren Identitäten stößt das Team auf Verbindungen zu einer radikalen Gruppe. Als die Ermittlungen eskalieren, gerät Bea selbst in Lebensgefahr. Während sie auf der Intensivstation kämpft, suchen Patience und Jake unter Hochdruck nach der Ursache und stoßen auf eine erschütternde Spur.