Lesley Sharp

From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...

As the team makes a significant breakthrough in the case, Rachel's position as Acting DI is jeopardized. Janet's attempt to help Taisie results in a complaint, rocking her faith in justice.

Syndicate 9's new Sergeant is thrown in the deep end with a historical missing person's case. Their biggest challenge is to hide their contempt for the poor police work that hampered the original investigation. Janet keeps Gill's secret but shares another secret with Rachel. And when Mandy Sweeting's body is discovered, 23 years after she went missing, the new Sergeant takes on huge proportions.

When Janet gets called in to Gill's office to explain a cheeky email that she's sent to Rob, she's adamant that it wasn't from her, and mortified that Rob will think it is. Meanwhile, Catherine, daughter of care home resident Gerald French, raises concerns about the level of care her father had been receiving, so Scott and Bailey are sent in to investigate.

With their friendship in tatters, the lack of communication between Rachel and Janet is making even the simplest of tasks difficult, and it takes a call about Gill's possible abduction to reunite them as a team.

Retrospective episode set immediately after the events of season two. Rachel faces further accusations of masterminding the fatal attack on ex-lover Nick and finds comfort in the arms of ever-faithful Sean, agreeing to marry him. The detectives also investigate the case of a businessman suspected of murdering a tramp.

The discovery of slaves on the Pritchard farm has turned a murder inquiry into a huge, multi-agency investigation. Under investigation for the crash, a devastated Janet finds solace in Chris's calm reasoning. When an incandescent Evie Pritchard smells alcohol on DCI Gill Murray's breath, she has all the ammunition she needs to discredit both the investigation and Gill.

Syndicate 9 are left reeling at the identity of the mole in the team, and when a body is found in Oldham town center, the detective duo discover that a spate of street robberies may lead them to the killer.

Battle-scarred from their conflict, Rachel and Janet are determined to move forward. Rachel aims to give her career her best shot, and not be bogged down by the chaos of her personal life, while Janet wants the opportunities she feels she deserves. Scott and Bailey find themselves in front of the promotions board, being interviewed for the post of sergeant.

Troubled by Gill's comments about her relationship with Will Pemberton, Rachel gets cold feet about accompanying him to an awards ceremony. When a couple are shot at close range in their pub in the early hours, their son Simon feels utterly alone, having lost his sister Carla when he was three.