Sara Gleeson

Drama. A delirious prisoner on death row tells Dr Lucien Blake he is innocent of the police shooting for which he is soon to hang. Dr Blake pulls out all stops to uncover the truth.

Drama. The death of a foreman at a shoe factory looks like a hideous industrial accident. The body of Polish migrant Giulio Mosca is found mangled in a press, with his hand amputated. It's the fourth accident in nine months. Dr. Blake is furious the factory has such a lack of safety measures and calls for its immediate closure. The owner, local businessman Patrick Tyneman, admits there was no safety guard on the press despite Blake's previous two reports calling for it to be added. Things get physical and Chief Superintendant Lawson has to intervene. Dr. Blake leaks a story about the industrial accident to a reporter, hoping the pressure will force Tyneman to improve safety. The deeper Dr. Blake digs into the foreman's death, the more suspicious he becomes about the veil of silence between the migrants at the shoe factory. What exactly are they hiding?

Period drama. Blake returns from China, and finds himself thrown straight into an investigation: the newly elected Mayor of Ballarat is found dead at the bottom of the Town Hall steps. But threats of betrayal, adultery and double-dealing lead him to some high and low places. Jean kept in the dark worries for him.

Drama. The community is shocked when the body of Ballarat Hospital's first female doctor is found hanging in the laundry. District nurse Mattie O'Brien and her friend Linda make the grim discovery after a night of celebrating Macdougal's win in the 1959 Melbourne Cup. Mattie tries in vain to resuscitate Dr Hazel Mahoney. No one can understand why such a successful woman would take her own life.Police Surgeon Dr Lucien Blake is suspicious the minute he arrives at the crime scene and his suspicions are quickly confirmed when evidence suggests Dr Hazel was dead before her body was hung up in the laundry and sets out to find the murderer.