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- The arson murder of a socially-conscious mullah in Manchester's Pakistani community stirs simmering racial tensions.
- DCI Lewis finds that a hit-and-run she witnessed that killed a young girl and the mutilation murder of an illegal immigrant lap dancer may be linked.
- A twelve year old autistic child holds the key to the stabbing murder of his caregiver if DCI Lewis can get him to talk.
- DCI Janine Lewis, faced with a disintegrating marriage and an unforeseen addition to the family, investigates the murder of a teacher.
- A crematory worker points out to DCI Lewis that a computer analysis of the weight of ashes proves that two people, not one, were cremated in the same coffin.
- A petty crook is found dead in the same lake that has been frequented by four old fishing buddies.
- An investigation starts when a teenage girl knocked down by the getaway car after a jewellery robbery.
- After a three-year old boy disappears, suspicion points to his father until DNA tests prove that the body found in the sewer does not belong to him.
- DCI Jeanine Turner and her team investigate the murder of a senior NCO at an army base. They're getting some cooperation from the military, but they're worried about bad publicity and aren't being entirely truthful about what they know about their personnel. From the beginning, she finds the case has all of the hallmarks of a family dispute but a second and then a third death points to illegal drug use, affairs and the challenges of having to face an impending relocation to a war zone. Jeanine has to deal with her own feelings for Major Tim Fairhead who she had only recently met and who feels the same about her. That relationship also elicits a sharp reaction from DI Richard Mayne.
- DCI Lewis and her team are on the scene quickly when a 19 year-old lad is stabbed just outside their local. The young man, Dwayne Kent, was out celebrating his birthday with his brother and others. He was an up and coming footballer that the papers referred to as the Golden Boy. He was found by his brother Lee just a few minutes after Dwayne had a run-in with three other young men who chased after him. It doesn't appear however that they were responsible. Dwayne was clearly living well beyond his means and seemed to own his own flat, which is news to his parents. False assumptions and mixed identities are key to solving the crime.
- DCI Jeanine Lewis and her team investigate the murder of Dr. Donald Haliwell who was shot as he was leaving his surgery. There are several possible suspects. He had just been exonerated at a Coroner's Inquest over the drug overdose death of a young woman whose mother, Marcie Young, believes he reduced their daughter's methadone dosage too quickly. Then there's a young associate, Dr. McKee, who has just learned that he was to be released at the end of his contract. Lastly, the surgery in question had previously been the subject of a burglary by the Wilson gang and the police had intelligence that the gang was planning another major robbery. Staff at the surgery also think Dr. Halliwell may have been stealing drugs. The solution definitely lies in a connection with the surgery.
- After being released from prison after only 18 months for the strangling of his wife and dog, a murderer is found strangled by a dog chain.
- A cheer leading coach is bludgeoned to death with a hammer after her team loses a tough competition.
- After being honored as a "super cop," DS Shap begins a private rogue investigation of the murder of an illegal Belarusian immigrant.
- With Tanya Lucas dead - apparently killed by the same person to killed Peter Williams - Shap finds his own situation deteriorating. He admits to DI Mayne that he slept with the girl the evening she was killed and it eventually comes out that he was using her to try and locate Terry Camerton. He's still holding out about his true relationship with Terry and his ex-wife Sally Jowell. Meanwhile, the evidence begins to point to Sally's new husband Derek as the likely murderer. DCI Lewis still has major problems at home with son Tom and thinks she will apply for the the Superintendents' Board thinking she may have more regular hours and a more balanced lifestyle.
- The investigation of the murder of a rock star takes Janine and her team into the seamy side of Manchester's rock world.
- A woman is found strangled in a rural area of Greater Manchester and DCI Lewis thinks it may be linked to a string of local arson fires.
- Detective Mayne risks his life to go undercover in prison to expose a murderer.
- With her elder son Michael in trouble at school and her younger boy Tom suffering from an asthma attack,Janine faces criticism from her ex-husband that she is putting her work before her family. At least she is able to tell Lesley Tully that Dean Hendrix has been arrested,but then she gets a phone call that makes her realise that she could be in danger.