Tom Ward
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 4
Language
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.
Author
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.
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.
Author
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
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 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 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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 10
Language
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Language
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.
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 4
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 1
Language
English
Description
When four bodies are found in the Thames after a boat filled with illegal immigrants is wrecked, the team realize they are dealing with a people trafficking operation. They set out to look for survivors and find themselves delving into communities of illegal immigrants.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 6
Language
English
Description
Leo is puzzled by more contrary clues in the strange death of conceptual artist Jimmy Triangle. Someone is playing a game, but who and why? Meanwhile, Harry and Nikki are pushed further apart when he forces her to re-examine the body of his ex-girlfriend.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 3
Language
English
Description
Harry employs the help of his medical student, Holly Farr, with his latest case - the post-mortem of a woman found dumped on the side of the road with her face skillfully removed. With no DNA or missing persons match, Nikki's skills are called upon to reconstruct the victim's face. But the team are at a loss to explain the killers' motive in such a brutal act.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 8
Language
English
Description
Nikki's professional reputation is at stake as the investigation into the death of Anna Holland continues. Nikki is forced to concede that her findings were ambiguous, and there is a chance that Anna Holland was, indeed, guilty of murder.
Author
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 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
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.