Wire In The Blood

While Tony and Carol search for the killer of a young Dutch nurse, the best friend of one of Tony"s students goes missing. Meanwhile, Tony gets closer to discovering where his child-killer patient, Maggie, buried her victims.

The 500-year-old skeleton of a girl is discovered at a new hotel site, but forensics show that the corpse was recently moved. The case becomes even more perplexing when the bodies of a young couple are found buried underneath it.

Carol and Tony investigate a brutal murder that bears the hallmarks of another killing that occurred three months earlier, but the man convicted of that crime is behind bars. Did he escape prison to kill again, or was he wrongly accused?

Tony quickly solves the attempted murder of a mother, but the case becomes more complicated when she dies in the hospital after surgery. Carol feels the pressures of her promotion to DCI, while Tony finds his academic position is at risk.