Blue Murder: Set 1

If you thought being a single mother was tough, try running a police department on top of that! Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis (Caroline Quentin, Jonathan Creek, Men Behaving Badly) is a thoroughly modern woman. She’s in charge of a force that investigates Manchester’s most grisly murders. Meanwhile, back at home she’s in charge of four demanding children—including a newborn. Somehow she manages to meet every challenge with passion and energy, balancing her devotion to her family with her dedication to justice. Welcome a unique crime drama guaranteed to race your mind, speed your pulse and warm your heart.

Cry Me a River, Part 1 - Janine Lewis, mother of three and pregnant with her fourth child, is promoted to detective chief inspector. Coming home to celebrate, she catches her husband pleasuring the au pair. Newly single, she struggles to balance her demanding new job with a hectic home life. Lewis and her team investigate the murder of a schoolteacher found at his garden allotment, sliced open like a lab rat.

Cry Me a River, Part 2 - DCI Janine Lewis and her team continue their investigation into the murder of a schoolteacher.

Hit and Run - On the way back to school for the first time after her maternity leave Janine witnesses a hit and run outside her son's school. While wishing to investigate, she is at the same time summoned to view a corpse found in the river. A public appeal reveals the woman to probably be Rosa Milicz, who worked at Topcat, a lap-dancing club. Meanwhile the little girl involved in the hit-and-run dies. Richard and Shap go to Topcat where they discover that the manager of the club is James Harper, who coincidentally also owns the hit and run car.

Up in Smoke - What first looks like a straightforward suicide case soon turns much more sinister. Two weeks later, both the suicide victim's husband and a crematorium worker have gone missing. DCI Lewis opens an investigation and forensic tests reveal that another body was cremated with Charlotte. She has a murderer and a victim, but which is which?

Fragile Relations - A popular Mullah dies in a house fire and all the evidence points to a local politician. Janine thinks there's more to it, but nobody in the Muslim community will talk to her.

Lonely - When the only witness to a woman's murder is an autistic boy who cannot communicate what he saw, Janine has to get to the truth another way.

Written by Cath Staincliffe, John Fay, Jeff Povey, Karen Hill
Directed by Pip Broughton, Alex Pillai, Menhaj Huda, Suri Krishnamma, Graham Teakson, Paul Wroblewski
Produced by Hugh Warren, Jane Macnaught
Executive Produced by Carolyn Reynolds
Original Music by John Lunn, Nicholas Hooper, Kevin Sargent
Cinematography by Tony Coldwell, Andrew McDonnell
Film Editing by Fiona Colbeck, Tony Cranstoun, Jeremy Strachan, Adward Mansell
Costume Design by Inez Nordell, John Lindlar