The Inspector Lynley Mysteries – Pilot & Complete First Series – DVD – 15

When Scotland Yard teamed the suave, sophisticated Inspector Thomas Lynley (the eighth Earl of Asherton) with the working-class, prickly and unpopular Sergeant Barbara Havers, few gave them much chance. Could colleagues from such different social spheres gel? Would his easy-going nature and her no-nonsense approach clash? But when faced with a brutal murder mystery, they come to respect each other’s professionalism and discover they have more in common than they might have thought – including a chequered love life.