Murder Most Horrid

Tim Mellish is a woman at the end of her tether. During a suicide attempt in a hotel bedroom, she encounters an international hit woman planning to assassinate a local businessman.

Hairdresser Denise Cunningham is taken hostage by a fleeing bank robber and is forced to drive him to Scotland. Over the course of their journey they begin to evolve a strange friendship.

When old Dr Adams dies, Maud masquerades as his son in order to become a doctor in Victorian England. When the real long-lost son appears on the scene, Maud must somehow get rid of him.

75-year-old Lily goes to stay with her daughter Jocasta and son-in- law Tom. Tom has just been made redundant, and they are short of money. Jocasta plots to murder Lily for her money, but this is not so easy.

Travel and cooking writer Verity Hodge finds a corner of France than nobody else has written about or visited. Her best selling book changes all that with murderous consequences.

Ray and his night club singer fiancée Vikki live in the East End of London in the 1960s.They are all set to give up their life of crime when a rather fatal explosion forces Vikki to become a killer.