Dead to Me

A daughter's death

A teenage girl is found brutally murdered in her squalid flat.





A mother's love

Her mother is devastated. She gave her child up to the care system, only to lose her again, and is convinced that the low-life boyfriend is to blame.





Two ordinary women, one extraordinary job

DC Rachel Bailey has dragged herself up from a deprived childhood and joined the Manchester Police. Rachel's boss thinks her new recruit has bags of raw talent but straight-laced DC Janet Scott, her reluctant partner, has her doubts.





Together Scott and Bailey must hunt a killer, but a life fighting crime can be no life at all...