During the town's Pirate festival robbers in appropriate fancy dress pull off a wage snatch at the same time that Jane finds a body washed up on the beach. Ruby Hamilton, ...

A young man is found dead on a country road beside a Porsche but the car's owner, haughty entrepreneur Jason Daniels and his wife Anna claim not to know him with Jason te ...

Called to the local jail after inmate Charlie Macendrick has over-dosed Jane is approached by his cell-mate Sidney Sutton, a man accused of murdering Sophie Marks eight y ...

After an argument with Mick, Tam Bryant, landlord of rival pub the Captain's Pipe is found dead beneath a rock-fall though Jane learns that he was actually killed by a bl ...

After Beth shows him a photo of a dead sheep on the nearby moors journalist Ben Fairhead approaches her claiming there is a big cat at large though he is disbelieved by a ...

Erica Ryland, a member of the local lifeboat crew, drowns when she is washed overboard but Jane believes her life-jacket was deliberately sabotaged. The boat's skipper Ch ...

Building work on a deserted and long-abandoned cottage unearths a baby's skeleton from forty years earlier. The link is made to a former children's home and three orphans ...

Rafe Phelps, owner of the Drop Zone sky-diving school, is killed when his parachute fails to open, the cords having been cut. Devastated widow Jess has long feared for hi ...

As Lighthaven prepares for a Latin American dance weekend Isabella Martinez, a Cuban dancer who has come for the event, is found dead in a street.. The dance evening goes ...

Robert Talbot is found dead in the freezer at his ice cream factory on the eve of its sale to an American company. His son Andrew and Jane are suspicious of his glamorous ...

Bullying aristocrat Donald Sidwell is slain and a violin once belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte stolen. His agoraphobic daughter Olivia, her boyfriend Terence Brooks, cowed ...

Peter and Molly Walker are astounded when their teenage daughter Leah, presumed drowned some months earlier, reappears in Light haven. She has apparently no memory of rec ...

Ian Igby's corpse is found in a container washed up from a shipwreck and, given Ian's criminal past, Davey believes he was trying to steal from it - as does the ship's ow ...

Metal detectorist Errol Prowse is killed after finding a cache of valuable coins. Locals believe it is Long Ben's treasure and anybody who finds it will be cursed. Museum ...

Wealthy restaurateur Peter Bradshaw is shot by a sniper whilst launching his latest eaterie and his wife tells Jane that he was in receipt of death threats. Arrogant Scot ...

After antagonizing several people by stamping out traditions, including Punch and Judy, abrasive mayor Una Drake is found dead in a hotel room. For all her moral stance s ...

Ragnar and his men - three boatloads in total - arrive in England and build a camp. King Aelle welcomes his brother and asks him to lead his army but they are quickly def ...

Ragnar issues the challenge to Earl Haraldson who initially declines on the grounds Ragnar is a criminal. He remembers what the soothsayer told him however and decides to ...

Ragnar insists that they wait until the next day to attack the village - knowing it's Sunday and that most will be at mass. They sack the village and Knut rapes one of th ...