Don’t drive at night. Don’t drive alone. And if you do break down, don’t open the door to anyone even if you believe they’re there to help you.
Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he spends his days disposing of the sick and injured hens.
Ryan Lamb captures the raw side of city life through the lens of his camera. But when someone starts sending him tip-offs about incidents involving the emergency services, he is lured into a deadly game.
An ex-Royal Marine finds himself up against some of Manchester’s most ruthless criminals.
Manchester has just hosted the Commonwealth Games and the city is buzzing – until a series of shocking murders spreads fear through the streets.
The Butcher of Belle Vue has struck again. The third victim has been partially skinned and dumped on waste ground, her muscles, tendons and ligaments exposed.
The body of a woman with her throat ripped out is found on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester. She is discovered in an area where numerous sightings of a mysterious big black cat have been made.
The deliberate torching of a church creates outrage across Manchester. And when a charred corpse and satanic symbols are found in the ruins, DI Jon Spicer and the city’s Major Incident Team are called in.
It's the phone call DI Jon Spicer has long feared - his wild younger brother has been found dead. He has been murdered and horribly mutilated.
DI Jon Spicer’s investigation into the vicious slaying of a Russian asylum-seeker grinds to a halt when the man’s identity turns out to be false.
Out walking with his family in the local park, Jon Spicer’s life is shattered forever. The dog – aggressive and huge - appears from nowhere.
First day in his new role as a Specialist Firearms Officer and Jon Spicer is plunged straight into an operation to halt a terrorist attack.
Something deadly is moving through the Manchester night. Bodies of rough sleepers are being found across the city; rumours circulate of a raven-winged presence that appears and vanishes at will.
Beautiful and ambitious, Mandy Cost is determined to achieve one thing: fame. The measures she takes soon get her the attention she craves – but not all of it is welcome.
Laura and Owen buy a secluded cottage. Old mines riddle the hills surrounding their new home and, soon after moving in, Laura starts to hear faint snatches of birdsong.
In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning.
The death of a teenage runaway leads Detective Constable Iona Khan into the most disturbing case of her new career.
His first week as a police constable, and Sean Blake is thrown into the hunt for a truly depraved killer.
After a corpse is found in a Manchester canal, encased in a sleeping bag and weighed down by bricks, DC Blake’s investigation has hardly begun before another body is discovered.
A young woman travelling in the Far East accepts a strange offer from a fellow-backpacker: to climb a volcano. Unaware the local religion forbids it, they prepare to sleep the night at the crater’s edge...
Emily's dad is troubled: his young daughter sees people no one else can. But what happens beside a quiet reservoir on a sunny afternoon takes things into far more disturbing territory...
The incessant sound finally forced his eyes open. There it was, sitting on the breezeblock beside the mattress. Tick tock, tick tock. Round-faced pain in the arse.
Peter’s in charge of a refuse collection site on the edge of town. He suspects something’s not right about the pair of men who regularly drop off several small boxes last thing on a Friday.
Malcolm’s life is on the line. He’s fled his master’s criminal empire, taking enough evidence to bring it crashing down.
For their honeymoon Sarah and Andy have booked into a pretty farmhouse. But the property has a sinister history.
The curries being served in Baba’s Bites are suddenly out-of-this-world. But then Rick finds a tightly-folded piece of paper hidden in one of his meals.
So begins the heartless quest of a con-man. But as his cruel plan unfolds, a lot more than money is soon at stake.