Frank Hathaway's detective agency is struggling as cases are few and far between, until Lu Shakespeare shows up with suspicions that her fiancé is cheating on her.
Frank and Lu are enlisted by care home owner Penelope when she fears that someone is trying to sabotage her facility. But when Penelope suddenly falls to her death, everyone conveniently has an alibi.
Frank and Lu race against the clock after an undertaker is told by two odd hit men that he only has 24 hours to live.
Tragedy strikes when an old school magician's grand finale trick goes gruesomely wrong, but he and his daughter believe their act was subject to sabotage.
A local criminal, Billy `The Brick' Porters is the subject of the village's suspicion when the mayor of Arden is found murdered in his cottage, but nobody is able to locate Billy.
Frank and Lu look into death threats made against a former soap star who is on the verge of returning to the limelight.
Mark Benton
Frank Hathaway
Jo Joyner
Luella Shakespeare
Patrick Walshe McBride
Sebastian Brudenell
Tomos Eames
DS Joe Keeler
Yasmin Kaur Barn
PC Viola Deacon