The Beat is a crime series set in an inner city police station. 15-year-old Hannah Brown is missing, just another teenage runaway. Or is she? Only PC Clare Coppola, working on her first police case, is convinced that this isn't just another routine case.

Violence is brewing on Ben's patch - deliberate organized violence. But who is behind it and what are they trying to achieve? Ben is determined to find out and he has more than a professional interest. He is black and some of that violence is directed at him because of it.

There is a serial arsonist at large, going by the name of Phoenix. First Clare's school is hit and then the library. What will be the next target? Clare is determined to find Phoenix, but it is hard to track down someone so elusive.

When 19-year-old Scott Travis is found battered to death, the police are baffled. Probationary police officer Clare Coppola delves deeper into Scott's past and a murky history emerges. Scott was a blackmailer. His victims included a medical student, a former prostitute and even a police officer. Which of them was desperate enough to kill to keep their secret hidden? Could it be somebody very close to home? A fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane series. Belbin takes the reader deep into the lives of a group of young police officers finding their feet in the inner city.

Life on the Maynard Estate is hard and Julie wants to escape. Gordon has won the lottery and lives in luxury - that is, until his house is burgled and his wife abducted. Called in to investigate, Paul and Clare uncover a network of crime based on greed and betrayal.

When Dean gets picked to play for Nottingham Forest it means a new start for him. Of course, he's always been into team games, just not legitimate ones. As the motorway team move in for a big-time burglary Dean has to decide which side he's on. Whichever he chooses, there'll be a penalty to pay.

The motorway team are still at large, but a key witness is behind bars and the police are just waiting for him to sing like a bird. But Joe isn't stupid. He knows that people who cross the team end up dead. Back at the station, the night shift is beginning for Clare.

Alan Wallace has just got off scot-free. The locals are outraged. But the police are duty bound to protect everyone. Even perverts. Then a two-year-old boy goes missing and the community blames Alan, even though the police say he's innocent.

Walk a final beat into Nottingham's seedy underworld in a feature-length climax to this gritty inner-city police series. Jo McCord thinks she's found love, Ben Shipman is determined to pin something on Ian Jagger and Claire's probationary period comes to an end.