New Tricks

Jack Halford deals a devastating blow to UCOS - he's quitting. But before the team can question his reasons, an intriguing new case arrives.

When the body of a young PE teacher is discovered in woodlands adjoining a prestigious boarding school, UCOS are asked to investigate.

UCOS reinvestigate the death of Annabel Tilson, a diplomat in the Foreign Office whose body was discovered in a frozen river on Christmas Day 2008.

The UCOS team's feathers are ruffled when Steve McAndrew, a retired detective from Glasgow, descends on the office like a bundle of Scottish energy.

When the body of a computer expert turns up in a morgue under a false name, the UCOS team are drawn into the world of online hacktivists.

UCOS investigate the case of a 16-year-old tennis champion who fell to her death from the balcony of a penthouse apartment after losing a big match.

UCOS re-open the case of Sean Docherty, a talented young poet whose burnt body was discovered ten years ago in the scrapyard of a known gangster.

UCOS investigate the murder of Max Klein, an East German immigrant whose mysterious last words translated as 'blue flower'.

Standing and McAndrew travel to Glasgow, where a new UCOS section is being established. While there, they agree to help investigate the unsolved murder of a bookie called James Soutar, and the case brings McAndrew face to face with an old adversary.

Thirty years ago, Strickland and a group of his associates, including Stephen Fisher, were involved in a covert operation on behalf of MI5. Now, someone is trying to kill all the members of that group and Strickland turns to the UCOS team for help.