In 1960s East End London, getaway driver Ray and his nightclub singer fiancée Vikki are all set to give up life of crime when a fatal explosion forces Vikki to become a killer.

Travel and cookery writer Verity Hodge finds a corner of France that nobody else has written about or visited. Her best-selling book, 'Mangez Merveillac', changes all that forever - with murderous consequences.

75-year-old Lily goes to stay with her daughter Jocasta and her husband Tom. Tom has just been made redundant and the couple are short of money so Jocasta plots to murder Lily for her inheritance.

When old Dr Adams dies, Maud masquerades as his long lost son to become a doctor in Victorian England. Then the real son reappears, and Maud must somehow get rid of him.

Hairdresser Denise Cunningham is taken hostage by a fleeing bankrobber who forces her to drive him to Scotland. Over the course of their journey they begin to develop a friendship.

Tina Mellish is a woman at end of her tether. During a suicide attempt in an hotel bedroom, Tina encounters an international hit woman planning to bump off a local businessman.