- After a young wife hangs herself, an altercation ensues between two employees in the mortuary cremating her body. One is her presumptive lover and the other her grieving husband. Someone evidently has been murdered because computer records at the crematorium show the weight of two bodies in the ashes., but as both men …
- Part I:Annie Jordan is arrested when it appears that she has abducted a little boy from his whom but she convinces Creegan that it is her son from whom she was coerced into parting by a child-brokering scheme, a paedophile group who buy and sell children. Acting on Annie's evidence Susan and DC Rivers pose as a childle…
- Harriet Farmer is attacked in woods on her way to elope with boyfriend Finn Robson and left in a coma.Finn vanishes and a year later,as the annual Bishopwood chess tournament begins,Harriet wakes up with temporary amnesia. The chess club president,unpopular writer Edward Stannington is murdered,his sole heir being his …