Midland : un royaume pris depuis un siècle dans l’étau d’une guerre sans merci avec ses voisins. Dans ce Moyen Âge barbare et sans pitié, Guts, un jeune mercenaire, lutte sur les champs de bataille pour survivre au quotidien. Malgré son jeune âge, il se bat avec la rage d’un chien fou et traîne derrière lui une épée au gabarit impressionnant. Alors qu’il sort d’une énième bataille, il est contraint par un pari perdu de rejoindre les Faucons, une troupe de mercenaires dirigés par Griffith, un jeune homme charismatique et mystérieux, qui semble promis à une ascension fulgurante…

A corpse is found in an ice house ten years after Phoebe's husband went missing. The police seem determined to accuse Phoebe, to the delight of the villagers.

Barbara Carey flies to Italy to visit her blind sister Mary Ann, who is studying in a music academy. Once in Rome Barbara discovers her sister has disappeared and, according to the Italian police, she may have been murdered by a maniac who is obsessed with young sightless women. With the help of Martin Foster, from the British Embassy, Barbara starts trying to find out what happened to Mary Ann. She even pretends to be blind herself in an attempt to attract the killer, and finally the clues lead her to Seagull Island, privately owned by a mysterious British citizen named David Malcolm. Barbara must then find the answers to several questions: was Mary Ann really kidnapped? What happened to David's wife and son in the island? And why is David's relative Carol so unhappy to see a woman with him?

Crime drama series following Eve Lockhart, one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists, and her team of scientists at a state-of-the-art forensic research facility.