Lia Williams
InthemonthsfollowingthesuccessfulresolutionoftheLulaLandrycase,businesshasimprovedforprivateinvestigatorCormoranStrike.Whilehandlingasteadystreamofdivorcecasesandtheoccasionaljobonbehalfofatabloidjournalist,StrikeisapproachedbyLeonoraQuinewithapleatolocateherhusband,thenotoriouswriterOwenQuine,whohasdisappearedwithoutatrace
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love — his teenage daughter — dies in a senseless act of politically motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
Detective dramas featuring private investigator Cormoran Strike based on the novels by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling’s pen name).
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child’s abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.