Jonathan joins forces with theatrical agent Carla Borrego to solve the baffling mystery surrounding the murder of a glamorous movie actress in a Scottish castle.

It's Jonathan's birthday and he's been given a book on using playing cards as weapons, a set of Adam Klaus bathroom products, and a dangerous case involving a murdered corpse that has come back to life for revenge.

A young woman, who has led a scandalous life that has shocked the local village community, suffers severe burns in an appalling accident. But how can she have returned to her village church in order to seek forgiveness for her past sins, when she is lying in a coma in hospital? Enter a man in a duffel coat and shaggy hair with the answer... But this time it isn't Jonathan Creek!

When Maddy's glamourous former colleague Mimi Tranter turns up with a mystery in an old house in Norfolk, it's all change. Jonathan turns investigator, as Maddy finds herself turning into an illusionist...

Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery: a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. Although the American military have other plans and arrive to retrieve the skeleton. However, when they open the case at their military base, it's nowhere to be found...

Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams when an international businessman is murdered in a way in which she foresaw. Further confounding Jonathan and Maddy, there is then another death which she also appears to have foreseen.

A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death.