Taggart

A university student is battered to death in a children's playground; a day later, a nurse is killed in a similar fashion on the banks of the River Clyde. A therapy group seems to provide the link between the victims, and Reid goes undercover to investigate the members.

The murder of a young trophy wife casts suspicion on her husband, who claims he was aboard the family yacht at the time of her death. Then two other bodies turn up--one a marina worker, and the other a former policeman who had been trailing the dead woman.

Could a bad review really have led to the death of a restaurant critic? Or was there another reason for the journalist's murder--perhaps something related to the large amounts of money he had mysteriously accumulated?

During confession, a man inquires of a parish priest the penance for what he is about to do. Shortly afterwards, three people are killed, with drug use seeming to connect them. But Reid's investigation takes a different tack--back to the priest and the secret he can never reveal.

Burke and company investigate the apparent suicide of a top army recruit and the hit-style killing of two retired soldiers. However, Ross is hindered by the code of silence at the base, powerfully imposed by a hardnosed drill sergeant.

Burke suffers a bullet wound to the neck, and another officer is fatally shot. Tipped off by the dead cop's partner, Ross, Reid, and Fraser focus their attentions on a small-time crook and his part in a smuggling operation.

The ritualized murder of a young woman echoes a case Burke investigated 18 years ago. For help, he turns to an old colleague: a forensic pathologist and now the celebrated author of a true-crime book. After a second murder, Burke believes that a copycat killer is on the loose.

When an auto mechanic is sadistically burned to death and his business partner goes missing, the detectives puzzle over a motive. Suspicion falls on two ruthless brothers recently released from prison, but why would they want to kill someone with no criminal connections?