New Tricks — Series 9
Sandra Pullman leads UCOS – the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad – a unit dedicated to breathing new life into cold cases left behind by other investigations. Comprised of former police officers who’ve chosen early retirement, Pullman's team possesses a unique blend of experience and perspective. Series nine takes an unexpected turn when Jack Halford announces his departure, sending shockwaves through the squad. Before they can even begin to understand his reasons or convince him otherwise, a mysterious figure from Whitehall Intelligence, Stephen Fisher, intervenes with a baffling request: solve a century-old murder – and they only have 24 hours to do it.
Jack made an announcement: he’d decided to depart the team. Before Sandra, Brian, and Gerry could press him for an explanation, a figure from Whitehall, Stephen Fisher, arrived with one of his confidential cases – the century-old unsolved m…
The team was summoned to reopen the inquiry into the vanishing of physical education teacher Jason Bowe following the discovery of a body near the boundary of the prestigious boarding school where he had worked. The timing could scarcely ha…
DS Pullman disregarded protocol to investigate what appeared to be a deliberate concealment within the halls of the Foreign Office.
Following his retirement, former Detective Inspector Steve McAndrew of Glasgow joined the unit to revisit an earlier case; the discovery of a teenage girl’s DNA—a young woman who had disappeared years before—at the site of a recent petrol s…
A sense of unease settled over the team as news arrived: a computer specialist previously employed by Scotland Yard had been found dead at a teaching hospital, listed under an assumed identity. The discovery raised fears that ongoing underc…
The investigators turned their attention to the death of a sixteen-year-old tennis prodigy, found fallen from a penthouse balcony in the aftermath of a crucial loss to her competitor. Whether she fell or was forced over the edge remained to…
The UCOS team has reopened the investigation into the death of Sean Docherty, a gifted young poet whose charred remains were found a decade prior within the yard belonging to a notorious gangster. Detective Standing believes the murder stem…
The detectives were drawn into a case involving the death of an East German émigré, their only lead a cryptic phrase he uttered in his final moments. While striving to reconstruct the extraordinary narrative of his life, Detective Sandra so…
Strickland dispatched McAndrew and Standing to Scotland for a week’s assignment, tasked with assisting the Glasgow Police in establishing a new UCOS unit under the direction of DCI Fiona MacDougall. Their presence, however, soon entangled t…
Three decades earlier, Strickland and a circle of colleagues—among them Stephen Fisher—participated in a clandestine undertaking for MI5. Now, those involved are being systematically targeted for assassination, and Strickland has sought ass…
