The essential episodes of Murder in Suburbia
Watch these 10 in order and you've got Murder in Suburbia — each pick states its reason.
- 01
DI Kate Ashurst and DS Emma Scribbins investigate the mysterious death of affluent party girl Nikki Pengelly. Her distraught fiancé Ralph blames Nikki's besotted ex-husband Gavin but the investigation leads the detectives to the Applejacks dating agency, run by Redmond Appleby and his wife Maxine and a back-to-school disco. Then Ralph's bitter ex-girlfriend Hazel goes missing.
- 02
DI Kate Ashurst and DS Emma Scribbins investigate the stabbing of respectable charity shop worker Lyn Chichester soon after hosting a dinner party with her husband Nick. They discover the pair were involved in wife-swapping (including lesbian love) – and Lyn was the star attraction among the swingers.
- 03
One of the owners of Middleford's private golf club – womaniser Charlie Egan – is found dead, in handcuffs, in the swimming pool on his raucous stag night. The old boys network interferes as DI Kate Ashurst and DS Emma Scribbins line up suspects including stripper Shelley Simon Weaver, Charlie's business partner and club manager Grace Bailey who was besotted with Charlie.
- 04
Dowdy Helen McKee the secretary at Middleford Comprehensive, is the victim of a hit and run. DI Kate Ashurst and DS Emma Scribbins discover she had a big say in admissions to the popular school, so desperate parents could be responsible, or maybe it's headmaster John Stanton whose car is damaged.
- 05
Ash and Scribbs find themselves investigating a case involving witchcraft when a young witch is found murdered in a graveyard.
- 06
An estate agent is murdered and it is up to Ash and Scribbs to find the killer.
- 07
The brides father is found dead in a pond.
- 08
Ash and Scribbs enter the sensual world of salsa dancing when a young dancer is pushed to her death from her own balcony.
- 09
Ash and Scribbs investigate a murder at the dog kennels.
- 10
Ash and Scribbs visit a rest home where the corpse of a 1950's singing star is discovered in a bathtub.
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