Eisenmenger's relationship with Helena Flemming has deteriorated to the point that Helena wants it to end, leaving Eisenmenger devastated. In order to cope, he throws himself back into his work as a forensic pathologist and is immediately consumed by a disturbing discovery. A man has been found stabbed to death on an industrial estate.

It's been seven years since the brutal murder of Emma Cardale's best friend, Laura, and Emma's only just managed to pick up the pieces and start her life over in a new town. But one day she returns home with bad news from work to find an unwelcome ghost from the past on her doorstep: Tom Burdock, Laura's husband, who's believed to be her murderer.

Charlotte Honeyman jilts her long-time swain, and on the spur of the moment marries a stranger. His pride damaged and his matrimonial plans upturned, sea captain Nick Thornton threatens to take revenge. Charlotte's younger sister, Marianne, takes pity on Nick and secretly boards his ship, where she meets with an accident.

Jay, the orphan boy, doesn't want to hurt anyone. He tries so hard not to. Yet he has a frightening secret hidden under the ancient ruin. Nurse Laura Parris is determined to protect the children in her care. After Laura meets Victor Brodman, a widower, she wonders if she can trust him enough to reveal Jay's disturbing past.

It is seven years since a stake was driven through the heart of the infamous Count, and the Dracula was beheaded and allowed slowly to crumble to dust. Neither Jonathan and Mina Harker nor their companions can find any trace of the horrific events. But beneath the earth, Dracula's fierce soul lies in limbo.

Rose Paton doesn't think she'll be singing at second-rate pub The White Horse for much longer. After all, she's got good looks, youth, and talent. But when Marcus Bennley asks her to be his birthday present to his sister Marie - by singing at her party - she accepts. Is Rosie making a terrible mistake in entangling herself with the Bennleys?

Charles Edward Stewart, better known as 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', is famous for his doomed attack on England and his subsequent flight from Scotland disguised as an Irish serving maid, aided by Flora Macdonald, a poor shepherdess who took pity on his plight. This episode made him a legend in his homeland, but what happened next?

The triumphant end of the war has not allowed beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, alias the Countess von Widerstand, to retire gracefully. Working for the SS her principal antagonist was the Soviet Union, and to Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lavrenty Beria she remains the most wanted of all war criminals.

Carly Paladino, an investigator for a San Francisco security firm, re-evaluates her life and decides to strike out on her own. Her first case involves the death of the daughter of an old and moneyed Pacific Heights family. A mysterious young man is arrested for the murder, but Carly suspects the real murderer is inside the Hanover mansion.

Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that doesn't 'do' murder. There's nothing sinister about Zander's request for Bea to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it's awkward because it was Zander who'd exposed the scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust... after which Denzil had, unexpectedly, died.

Meg Oliphant was a schoolgirl when the war started. After her brother's death she continued writing to his best friend, Steven Caraford. Now the war is over and she is about to go to college. Steven has longed for the day when he can return to Scotland and continue the life he loves, but is dismayed to find he is no longer welcome there.

Novelist Tom Oliver is not the most popular man in the world and, initially, he isn't much missed when he disappears at the end of a week tutoring at a writer's centre in rural Shropshire. Is his disappearance an innocent affair, or has he himself now been Written Out?

Meet the hot-house student talent in a University Creative Writing course for would-be poets, novelists, dramatists - and some talents not so hot. Rivalries burn and grow dangerous. Meantime, Principal of the University must do what he can to suppress these internal wars and pull the college up from its low spot in the league tables.

Englishwoman Clio lives in Paris. Twice-married and unhappy in love, she has now become a realist. What she craves above all is stability for her son, Alex, the light of her life. This means she should marry her lover, Philippe, a handsome cultured Frenchman with a large and conventional family.

Polly wonders how she, the one plain sister of four, managed to capture Seth. Her husband - cool, poised, perfectionist - cuts a handsome figure in the minimalist interior design world he inhabits. It is also odd, given Seth's usual talent for getting what he wants, that they have not been able to have a family yet.

The Mallorcan police receive an anonymous call to say a body has been found at the foot of a steep wall of rock. Hoping it is an accident rather than a crime, Alvarez makes cursory enquiries only to find that the medical evidence reveals this could be a murder case.

On Ely Island, the Normans are proclaiming their authority with a magnificent cathedral. Its construction means the Saxon chapel dedicated to St Etheldreda must be destroyed and, to those who revere her memory, this amounts to sacrilege.

Something smells fishy, and the always tenacious Rachel won't stop until she reels in the killer - and makes the island safe for humans and other 'endangered' species as well.

Marrying her boss, prominent businessman Cormick Grayson, was a very reasonable proposition for a woman who'd been hurt in love before. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement at first. But something wasn't right. The heat in Gray's eyes told her there was more to this than a polite, passionless marriage.

When Shona MacInnes, a crofter's daughter from a remote Scottish island, qualifies in the 1950s to train as a vet, she meets prejudice not only from her father and brother, but also from handsome Ross MacMaster, an islander who is to become a vet himself.