Jemma Hines

Troubled gothic teenager Ellie feels isolated, angry, and betrayed by her fractured family. Seeking connection and understanding, she turns to the legend of Lizzie Borden, the infamous axe murderer of Fall River.

After her family is murdered, a champion swimmer infiltrates the killer's home-ready to drown his world in vengeance.

Jevan moves her family into her late mother's home, only to discover her mother, Iris, a genetic scientist, created a deadly raptor that's now on the loose. As the creature hunts them, Jevan and her family must fight to survive and find a way to stop the ultimate predator.

David's 29th birthday also happens to be the day of his father's funeral. When David discovers that he shares that birthday with a Hollywood star, it begins to feel like his life is a series of missed opportunities. But that self-obsession threatens to destroy his relationships with his unemotional mother and disabled teenage sister when they need him the most.

A year after his wife leaves him; Jeff seeks solace in meeting women through lonely hearts dating. His attempts are emotionally unsuccessful and Jeff can't seem to move on. His denial manifests itself as a talking soft-toy pig that gives Jeff advice on his dating technique. But when Jeff meets a pretty girl in a sandwich shop; he realizes that he has promised to take the pig along on his next date.

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.