A distraught mother reports her daughter Janita as missing, but the Amber alert produces no information.

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Carol gives Tony hell in "Bad Seed" for withholding information that almost got a team member killed and might lead to their killer committing suicide. This time, her breath went inwards, taking enough shampoo with it to add a coughing retch to the morning's sound effects.

McDermid was signing books, and a woman asked her to autograph a Top of the Pops annual which contained a picture of the disgraced late TV presenter Jimmy Savile. Interesting that prior to this series, Robson Green started in "A Touch of Evil" that remarkably resembles Wire in the blood on a more "toned down" level. Effectively the show is split up into two eras, series one to three, The Carol Jordan years, series four to six, The Alex Fielding years. Bondage Is Bad: When bondage is addressed, it will be associated with debauchery at best, and with torture, madness and murder at worst.

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The photostat joined four similar previous overnight despatches in a folder that lived in her briefcase when it wasn't sitting on her desk. Tony and Carol are complex characters both scarred by their experiences on a previous case and their relationship is difficult because they have become involved personally. She is not fazed easily and is keen to take on more responsibility and pleased to have strong role models in Carol and later, Alex. At the end of the second series, Merrick assaults Kevin Geoffries after he compromises one of his closest informants. Foil: The women in Tony's life tend to serve as both Greek chorus and conscience to him, as well as highlighting his darker flaws.The thought of what his dreams could do to him was no enticement to drift away and hand control over to his subconscious.

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Even when they replaced the secondary character without much explanation it got on with the business of Dr.McDermid was a lifelong fan of Raith Rovers football club, her father having worked as a scout for the club. Her first success as a novelist, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery occurred in 1987.

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People who are innocent are very rude to the police and refuse to co-operate for no apparent reason. There were three full-length movies: "The Mermaid's Singing", "Shadows Rising", and "Justice Painted Blind". McDermid has won many international awards for her successful novels, such as the CWA Gold Dagger and the LA Times Book Award.

Loud of War: Tony's paranoid neighbour played loud music all night as a way of getting back at Tony.