Blue Murder

- Season 5

(2009)

A cheer leading coach is bludgeoned to death with a hammer after her team loses a tough competition.

Detective Mayne risks his life to go undercover in prison to expose a murderer.

A woman is found strangled in a rural area of Greater Manchester and DCI Lewis thinks it may be linked to a string of local arson fires.

The investigation of the murder of a rock star takes Janine and her team into the seamy side of Manchester's rock world.

After being honored as a "super cop," DS Shap begins a private rogue investigation of the murder of an illegal Belarusian immigrant.

With Tanya Lucas dead - apparently killed by the same person to killed Peter Williams - Shap finds his own situation deteriorating. He admits to DI Mayne that he slept with the girl the evening she was killed and it eventually comes out that he was using her to try and locate Terry Camerton. He's still holding out about his true relationship with Terry and his ex-wife Sally Jowell. Meanwhile, the evidence begins to point to Sally's new husband Derek as the likely murderer. DCI Lewis still has major problems at home with son Tom and thinks she will apply for the the ...