ELEMENT OF DOUBT

DOOMED TO DIE

When wealthy barrister Vanessa Broxton returns home unexpectedly early she finds her children’s temporary nanny murdered. Inspector Thanet suspects her estranged husband but gradually more suspects emerge.

LAST SEEN ALIVE

While Alicia was a schoolgirl a jilted boyfriend had killed himself, and her parents had moved from Kent. When she turns up after twenty years she is welcomed back although nobody knows why she has returned. Within hours Inspector Thanet has to investigate her murder.

PUPPET FOR A CORPSE

When prominent GP, Arnold Pettifer, is found dead of an overdose, Inspector Thanet is immediately suspicious, for Dr Pettifer apparently had everything to live for. The finger of suspicion points at Mrs Pettifer particularly when it emerges that she has a lover.