When an old man is found viciously murdered, a swastika carved in his chest, the obvious conclusion is that this killing must be racist. Suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor, found in flagrant playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia.

Bruno Courrèges, einziger Polizist, Gourmet, Sporttrainer und begehrtester Junggeselle von Saint-Denis - wird an den Tatort eines Mordes gerufen. Ein Kriegsveteran ist tot aufgefunden worden, gefesselt und mit einem in die Brust eingeritzten Zeichen. Hinweise fehlen. Die eingeschalteten Polizeibehörden wollen Bruno von den Ermittlungen ausschließen. Doch dieser nutzt seine Ortskenntnisse und Beziehungen, ermittelt auf eigene Faust und deckt die in der Zeit der deutschen Besatzung wurzelnden Ursachen des Verbrechens auf.

Selchester Castle in 1953 sits quiet and near-empty, its corridors echoing with glories of the past. Or so it seems to intelligence officer Hugo Hawksworth, wounded on a secret mission and now reluctantly assuming an altogether less perilous role at Selchester.

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island's close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the Vice-Questore's secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her....

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries. This compilation contains episodes 1 - 3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT.