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'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently on remand in prison. Despite claiming she attacked him in...
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'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently on remand in prison. Despite claiming she attacked him in...
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'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary. 'I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.' It's the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on a ventilator, fighting for his life, while her mother is currently on remand in prison. Despite claiming she attacked him in...
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Silent Witness volume 5
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A young woman falls to her death off a high-rise office building in London; it's revealed she was pregnant and taking cocaine. A black male athlete is murdered by his brother; initial signs suggest suicide by hanging, the actual cause of death is a high dose of Clenbuterol injected into his back.
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Silent Witness volume 2
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A student is murdered and the police suspect it is the same person who killed lecturer Annabelle Evans. Sam is too close to the case and her emotion is clouding her judgement. She seeks the advice of her former mentor, Professor Leon Forman. Ryan believes that the killer is waiter and sometime student Marco Rossi, and that Annabelle's husband Martin is innocent. DI Connor learns that his suspicions are wrong about Martin killing his wife because she...
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Silent Witness volume 5
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Harry and Nikki's tentative new relationship is jeopardized when Harry's ex-girlfriend is killed. Nikki takes on the case, which looks like suicide, but Harry becomes obsessed. Meanwhile, Leo works on the elaborately staged murder of conceptual artist Jimmy Triangle.
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Silent Witness volume 4
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A paranoid schizophrenic goes on a violent frenzy in a busy high street and two people are left dead. Then when a young man from the same care home commits suicide, Nikki becomes convinced that there is a connection. Meanwhile Harry tries to find the truth about a teenage suicide's death for her devastated mother, and Leo investigates the murder of a bank manager.
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Silent Witness volume 4
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Tension on the tube network threatens to boil over, and security is stepped up. The accidental verdict in the first death is called into question and the witnesses are brought in for interview. Amongst them is Lana Sutherland, a young hotel worker who has taken in a homeless man, Owen. DI Nelson lets Lana slip through the net before he realizes she may be harboring a dangerous killer. Nikki helps Nelson unearth the mystery of his father's death, allowing...
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Silent Witness volume 1
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Leo comes under suspicion for fraud when an insurance investigator accuses him of falsifying a post mortem report, and Harry falls for the charms of an attractive former colleague.
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Silent Witness volume 6
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Nikki suffers amnesia after being attacked in the hospital basement, so it is down to Harry to work out why she was there. It soon transpires that there were two operations on the child that died, the second to deal with complications following the first.
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Silent Witness volume 10
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Jack is rushed to hospital after collapsing at the scene of a car crash. Following Thomas's discovery that soldier John Sealy may have been exposed to a nerve agent, is it possible someone is targeting the victim's family? With Jack's life in the balance, it's down to Nikki, Thomas and Clarissa to find the truth and save their friend.
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Silent Witness volume 1
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Sam Ryan embarks on a journey home to Northern Ireland when the team is called out to investigate the discovery of the bodies of two men killed by paramilitaries twenty years ago and finds that their secrets live on in the new corridors of Belfast power. Then as Sam struggles to find reconciliation with her estranged son, the investigation takes a darker turn as she makes some discoveries about her father's past.
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Silent Witness volume 6
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Nikki visits the only key eyewitness, Isra, the teenage sister of one of the suspects who insists her brother is innocent. Nikki is appalled by the harshness of her treatment, and the team begin to seriously suspect that the truth is being covered up. Meanwhile, Rhys is on the run, and Harry is shocked when he discovers the identity of the unknown victim.
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Silent Witness volume 3
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A puzzling family murder in suburbia deeply affects Harry who has history with the family.
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Silent Witness volume 10
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As the truth behind the McMorris family is revealed, the team is brought together by the conclusion of a shocking Christmas family tragedy. Reuniting with their respective families, Nikki finds her secret Santa gift is a visit from a loved one.
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Silent Witness volume 1
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Harry and Nikki spend a day visiting an air show in which an old school friend of Harry's is flying, but after a fun day together, they see a military helicopter crash into a crowded detention center for failed asylum seekers. The Ministry of Defense are called in but Harry has a personal interest in the case.
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Silent Witness volume 2
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Tensions rise as Harry and Nikki struggle to find any useful evidence from the post-mortems to help the police. No one will talk, and they have no leads. Meanwhile, Leo worries for Levi, who is being sucked further into a world of gangs and violence.
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Silent Witness volume 7
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The accidental fatal shooting of a Polish teenager in an armed police operation triggers a series of murders that link Turkish gangsters, a grieving family and a fractured firearms unit.
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Silent Witness volume 5
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The team are called in to investigate an armed raid on a suspected terrorist cell. Two terrorists have been killed, together with a police officer. But when Nikki's findings point to a bungled raid with innocent lives being lost, people start to pass the buck.
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Silent Witness volume 10
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With Nikki locked in a struggle for survival, Jack is must use all of his abilities to track her down. When a mysterious person calls to make demands in return for Nikki's release, Jack's moral principles are put to the test. And with life and death in the balance, every decision counts…
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