Parish & Richards, Volume 10: Books 28-30

All Things Must Parish and Angie go on holiday to the island of Santorini in Greece, but when Angie goes missing the morning after their arrival, Parish has to work with the local police to find her. Richards is tasked with going through the cold cases at the Evidence Warehouse in Rye and making notes for future action. It’s been made clear that she is not to investigate on her own. She begins to delve into a thirty year-old case involving the death of a man found in his own farmhouse, but Richards much prefers to be out and about rather than stuck in a dingy old warehouse. Just as she finds herself a man, the house becomes a crime scene, the dogs go missing and the children are abducted. Xena and Stick are given the case of a boy’s skeleton found in a shallow grave on the bank of the River Lee in the caravan park at Dodd’s Weir. It soon becomes apparent that there are more missing boys – lots more, and the Chief Constable doesn’t want it to get out. Ryder Dutton wants her to obtain the name of a traitor passing the UK’s secrets to the Russians, but to do that she must sleep with the Defence Attaché – Valery Nikitin. Unfortunately for Xena, Nikitin is a sadist. And how is Stick able to save Xena’s career – what’s he hiding? The Way of All Parish and Richards are holding the fort. In DCI D'Aramitz's absence, the Chief Constable gives them the case of an emaciated body found in Hatfield Forest and sends DCI Lester to take over as the Senior Investigating Officer, because Parish hasn't been accredited as a PIP3. The trouble is, Lester is a micromanager and wants to control everything they do. And then Toadstone tells Parish about the noises coming from the apartment next door and his problem sleeping, so Parish offers to have a word with the neighbours. And then there's the Ellen Gold case from ten years ago, but has Richards found the missing link? DCI Mira D'Aramitz gets word from her brother Giuseppe that her father is dying, so after twenty years away she decides to travel back to Agropoli in Italy to say goodbye to him, but it becomes a lot more complicated than a simple goodbye when her father, brother and sister-in-law are all murdered. Commissioner Marco Righi takes charge of the case, and between them they must stay one step ahead of the killers to unravel a thirty year-old mystery. Stick takes leave, because he's been invited to the reading of the will in Poole, Dorset of a half-brother he never knew he had. Xena returns from the Cayman Islands and invites herself along. What should be a simple inheritance turns into the hunt for a mechanical combination safe in a designer house where they become prisoners. Then, they have to go to No Man's Fort in the Solent near Portsmouth to find a message from Stick's dead father. Pearls Before Parish and Richards are given the case of a semi-naked female body found on the side of the A10. It appeared that the young woman was pregnant and the only thing found on her is a necklace with a biblical quote on one side and "Tom" on the other. As they investigate, it gradually becomes clear that the teenager was the victim of a registered sex offender, but is he the killer? And who is "Tom"? Where and who is Michael Blair? And how does Tilly Nicholls fit into the puzzle? And who is JL in Angie's phonebook? Xena and Stick have the case of a body that has floated to the surface, after being submerged for a month in Barclay Park lake. There are twenty-one penetration wounds around the head, neck and chest. They discover that the victim was a drug addict and low-level dealer working for County Lines. The Drug Squad won't give them any information, because they're running an operation and have an officer deep undercover that they need to protect.