William Gaminara
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Series
Silent Witness volume 6
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English
Description
When the team finally unearth the shocking truth about Imogen's murder, it exposes a web of lies and deceit, which puts those connected to the case in imminent danger from the sinister Alan Lane.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
The case of two young women shot dead in a house basement forces Jack to lock horns with an old flame, the ambitious DI Chrissy Reed. As the pair's animosity rapidly escalates due to their conflicting motive theories and failure to ID the victims, Nikki's probing unearths the potentially career-damaging truth behind it.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 10
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English
Description
Nikki, Jack and Leo struggle to identify the human remains with only sections of skeleton found and basic forensic facilities. As they put the pieces together and assemble the skull fragments, they make an unnerving discovery that challenges their theory of what happened to Dan Lambert.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 5
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English
Description
When a pub landlady is stabbed to death and her little finger cut off, her husband, Roly, is the prime suspect. However, as Nikki, Jack, and emotionally fragile detective, DI Kate Warren, piece together mounting evidence, inconsistencies lead Nikki to believe Roly's innocent.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 8
Language
English
Description
Whilst Nikki and Jack close the net on Brian Blackburn's troubled son for murdering his co-worker at the eco-housing project, Leo finally finds someone willing to confirm his fear about the mysterious local health hazard. But when his would-be-informant is found murdered, Leo is convinced he was the victim of a government conspiracy to conceal the truth.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
Whilst Nikki, Leo and Jack struggle to ascertain how Deanna was killed and ended up in the Thames, DI Gold focuses on two main suspects in John Briggs' inner circle. However, when Geraldine makes a sinister confession about why she gave her daughter up for adoption and disowned her wealthy family, it dramatically changes the course of the investigation.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 7
Language
English
Description
Nikki and Jack are under pressure when a teenager's remains halt an eco-housing project, while Leo is trapped in a dangerous hospital siege as distraught Tom Hancock holds a ward at gunpoint to turn off his terminally ill son's life support.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
When John Briggs, a wealthy business owner, is found dead, Nikki works with forensic scientist Jack Hodgson to convince DI Gold it was murder. Leo, warned by the Home Office to rethink the Lyell Centre's operations, helps Nikki prove Briggs died from a mysterious allergic reaction. However, as suited sharks circle to buy Briggs' ailing company, Jack believes someone exploited this allergy to kill.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 4
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English
Description
As the basement women case highlights two cooperating killers, Nikki, Jack and DI Reed realize one victim was killed by a controlled sedative, stolen from a high-tech vaccine research lab. And suspicion falls on Lucas Ballinger, a scientist who works there.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 9
Language
English
Description
The team go to Afghanistan at the request of a British Army Corporal who is trying to identify the remains of his brother. An anxious Leo, Nikki and Jack head for the war-torn country in search of the truth about the soldier's mysterious disappearance.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 8
Language
English
Description
Nikki's investigation takes an unexpected turn when she reaches January House Care Centre and finds that Morrie has tried to commit suicide.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
A submachine gun attack on a group of teenagers outside a London nightclub brings the team into the unfamiliar urban world of street gangs on the decaying inner-city estates. Meanwhile Nikki uncovers the decomposed body of a drug addict and finds herself in conflict with a detective who believes that such deaths are so common they are hardly worth investigating.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Leo is stopped for drunk driving, he is sentenced to community service in a rough South London estate, where a community worker AJ is not impressed at being saddled with a 'drunk whitey'. Nikki, meanwhile, is investigating the death of a young girl at a nearby fairground. A disturbing picture of gang violence emerges, with the kids Leo is working with right at the heart of it.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 4
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English
Description
When the body of another man is found with connections to the same Catholic boys' school where a priest died, Nikki starts piecing together a theory. Meanwhile, Leo faces hostility at a community meeting when he is attacked for racial bias over the ritual killing case.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a mutilated child's body is found in the river, questions are raised as to whether the child was murdered in a ritual killing. Meanwhile, Nikki investigates the suspicious deaths of a priest from a local Catholic boys' school, and a man found dead in his swimming pool.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
When his wife and teenaged daughter are involved in a hit and run car crash, Leo begins a painful journey back to his native Sheffield. Leo struggles to accept the facts and soon finds himself at odds with the Sheffield team investigating the incident. Back in London Nikki investigates the murders of two unidentified women and she too finds the police unco-operative.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
English
Description
Harry discovers that the woman who drowned was pregnant, and the team gradually begins to collate evidence from the kidnap case. As Nikki struggles to deal with her own feelings about faith and death, her search brings her face to face with the darkest of killers.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 9
Language
English
Description
Harry and Nikki are called out to a dog sanctuary where the body of a teenage girl has been found. Meanwhile, Leo is called to the General Medical Council as a character witness for his mentor, Professor Lionel Clune.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 7
Language
English
Description
When Nikki attends a car crash she is horrified to learn that she knew the victim, a woman convicted for four years for her part in a murder - on Nikki's evidence. She allegedly goaded her boyfriend into committing the crime, but now the debate over the original finding is raised again, very publicly.
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Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
Nikki is worried that Harry's bid to clear his friend's name might become an obsession. Still haunted by the crash and its immediate aftermath, Harry attends the Royal Air Force Board of Enquiry where he is unimpressed with their reluctance to answer his questions.