Wheelchair bound Spinner congratulates himself on finishing some artwork by logging on to his favourite internet games forum. His pleasure is short lived, however, as a shadow falls across him and a lead pipe takes him out of the game.
A woman is found lovingly washed clean in a trash bag and then another is found. Did the policeman who found her kill her too or is he just unfit for the job?
A faded football star is found dead in his bed - was it his aggrieved wife? His disappearing mistress? His bitter children? Or his shady manservant? Steve and Tessa discover they all have their secrets.
When Maddie Herman, a paparazzi photographer who made her living out of the gossip and innuendo of the lives of others is found murdered, Steve and Tessa have no shortage of suspects.
A man is found dead in the bushes of a Sydney zoo, wearing a gorilla suit. Tessa and Steve find themselves in the midst of a family drama with deadly stakes.
Tessa is suspicious about the supposed suicide of a model train collector whose death exposes the secrets those around him were trying to keep from the victim.
Former football star Wayne Pascall is found dead in the lift of a publicity company owned by Anita Black. Anita is successful, attractive and now missing.
Fisk has a personal connection to the apparent murder attempt on a husband and wife. But Tessa and Steve must discover whether it was a murder-suicide, a double murder attempt - or something else.
When a mummified body is found in an empty house, it is identified as that of Karen Diskin, the daughter of police inspector Snowy Muldoon, who went missing two years earlier.
When the general manager of a department store is found dead during the store's opening, the owner and employees become the main suspects in the investigation. Steve is haunted by a face from his past, and Tessa pursues the case alone.
