BOOK 1: She must fight to prove herself...before it's too late. DCI Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues. When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. DNA samples lead them straight to known criminal George Marlow. The police think they've found their man, but things are not quite what they seem.... Desperate to remove all doubt around her suspect, Tennison struggles to make the charges stick. And then a second body turns up. With the team against her, DCI Jane Tennison is in a race against time to catch a dangerous criminal Ư- and prove she's just as tough as any man.

BOOK 2: The coroner?s report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Tennison about the latest victim discovered in one of London?s poorest districts?that news of her murder will tear apart a city already crackling with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. Even as London?s brutal killer remains at large, Tennison remains locked in a struggle to overcome her station house?s brutal chauvinism and insidious politicking. And as the department?s deeply rooted racism rears its head to overshadow every facet of her new investigation, the trail of her prime suspect is growing colder. Worse, when the details of the beleaguered detective?s stormy personal life explode across the headlines of London?s sleaziest tabloids, Tennison?s already frenzied determination to bring the killer to justice will be catapulted into obsession?one that could send her spiraling over the edge.

BOOK 3: Is it the end of the line for DCI Jane Tennison? When a body is found in one of London's poorest districts, the coroner's report identifies the victim as young, black and female, but impossibly anonymous. One thing is clear to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about this victim - that news of her murder will tear apart a city already cracking with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence. As London's brutal killer remains at large, Tennison is locked in a struggle to overcome her station house's brutal chauvinism and insidious politicking. And as the department's deeply rooted racism rears its head and threatens to overshadow every facet of her new investigation, the trail of her prime suspect is growing colder.