A lonely call-centre supervisor, who has become obsessed with her married boss, decides that he is having an affair with one of her co-workers. She decides to eliminate all the competition by murdering the co-worker and framing the wife for the crime.

Stuart Wisher, a successful paediatric surgeon, is haunted by ghosts from his past. The happily married father of three appears to have the world at his feet. But he's tormented by a nightmare in which a nine-year old boy runs through dense woodland, pursued by a faceless individual. The nightmare always ends with the boy falling over and meeting his death. Desperate for answers, Stuart seeks psychiatric help. But nothing prepares him for what he discovers.

Edward Buttimore is a single man in his 40s living with his mother, Rose. One day, in a moment of a road rage he kills a man on isolated country road. He attends the funeral for the victim and preteds befront of everyone that he is an old friend of his. Soon he befriends his wife, the widow Samantha Johnstone, who leans on him for support when she discovers that her late husband was leading a double life.

Barry Coates, a married man after a long time discovers that his wife, Angela is having an affair with his brother-in-law. He is unwilling to dirupt his comfortable domestic situation, so he plans to commit the perfect murder. He meticulously sets about to murder his brother-in-law by giving the appereance that it was a random street mugging.

Jamie Holt, on runaway from the police, hides away in a small unknown village. There he makes a whole new life for himself and he starts running his own pub. Ten years after the runaway a fae from his past arrives in the town and starts to blackmail him into carrying out a murder for him.

The symptoms are distressing; the diagnosis is a shock and the future a lingering, undignified and distressing death. How many of us would rather make a quick, painless exit? The vexed question of euthanasia is at the core of Mercy as Dr Collins , a country doctor married for thirty years helps his wife Margaret with a so-called assisted suicide. After suffering from what they assume to be a bout of flu, the Collins' world is turned upside down at the devastating news that Margaret Collins has been diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disorder. With the only prospect being a long slow painful death, Margaret takes the decision to end her life, turning to her husband for his assistance. To the police, he is potentially a criminal. To the public and to the community that know him, Dr Collins is a hero. But what is the truth?

Decent, hardworking and respectable, Sanjay Patel is a corner shop owner facing financial ruin when regularly forced to pay protection money to two local bullies. When one of the thugs, Ronnie Brown, turns up at the shop, brandishing a knife and demands 'his cash', Sanjay's actions leads to disastrous consequences. With the thug missing, the investigating officer immediately suspects the corner shop owner. But with very little evidence and no body, will Sanjay be declared innocent?

A female author for children books, Hat Vezey, gets terrorised by an obsessive stalker that won't leave her in peace. After she gets enough of everything, Hat decides to resort to desperate measures to stop the stalker from terrorising her…

In a moment of madness respectable head teacher Edward Palmer approaches a rent boy on a council estate but the boy pulls a knife and is killed in the struggle. Palmer fears he has been seen and turns to his quick-witted daughter who devises a way out for him. However the dogged Inspector Quarry is breathing down his neck and he needs to keep his resolve if he is to escape detection

An Englishman's home is his castle, and woe betide anyone who breaches the moat. But just how far should one go if their next door neighbour is driving them up their very expensive walls? Nigel Liddy and his wife Joanne live in a suburban cul-de-sac somewhere in middle England. They drive a Ford Mondeo, they vote New Labour, they used to have nice neighbours. But their neighbours moved... and in their place came the Squires. Alan and his trophy wife Debra are moving up in the world. They drive a Range Rover and a BMW convertible, they vote Conservative, and they are the neighbours from hell. Alan is oblivious to the fact that he and his family are turning Nigel from the quiet English silent majority into a vindictive, obsessed man. Nigel records all the ""nightmare"" events but struggles to find anyone who will take his complaint seriously and very quickly reaches breaking point. He realises there is only one solution to his problem... one final solution.

Successful barrister, Nicholas Chadwack, plots to murder Angela Stephenson, his mistress, when she wants from him to give her money, so she would keep their affair as a secret. He successfully frames one of his clients with the murder by planting forensic evidence at the murder scene, whom he then ""defends"" in court. The story plays out in flashbacks which are presented in reverse chronological order - so we first see the trial, then the method of framing, then the murder, then the development of the motive.

Tara Stevens, a young night-club singer is lately feeling stifled by her rich husband Derek, so she plans to have him murdered. She ha san affair with Mark White, an ex-com who now works as a security guard in her husbands office. After she talks him into it, Mark agrees to kill her husband. After the murder has been comitted, the murder has been investigated by detective superintendent Mike Garret. Soon it turns out that Tara is really having an affair with Mike. They together plotted to set Mark White up to murder Tara's husband…

Fireman Joe Waterman believes his wife Sandra is two-timing him with a colleague and wants revenge, the perfect opportunity arising when a mystery man called Napeman agrees to kill her whilst Joe has an alibi. Unfortunately,once the deed has been done there is no evidence of Napeman ever having existed and Joe is squarely in the frame for murder.

Three city dealers' scheme to siphon off money from their company's accounts is suspected by Simon's boss so he and his friends hire ageing hitman Terry Cameron to do away with him. Cameron requires payment only on completion of the job, but when the boss publicly dies of a heart attack the dealers decide there is no need to pay the hitman. Cameron then starts killing the dealers one-by-one as a penalty for non-payment.