The successful ITV series Scott & Bailey starring Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp, returns with a new series of eight episodes, starting (I believe) on Monday 12th March on ITV1.A month later, on 12 April, Cath Staincliffe's prequel to series one, Dead to Me, is published by Corgi.
Official blurb: A prequel to the hit TV series Scott and Bailey, and a chillingly authentic story of murder and hunting killers on the mean streets of Manchester
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 drug-pusher 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 doubts.
Together Scott and Bailey must hunt a killer, but a life fighting crime can be no life at all...
Cath Staincliffe is no stranger to tv work as she is the creator of the hugely successful Blue Murder series and also novelised two of the episodes.
Thanks for the news. I enjoyed series 1. Not sure about the book though. I did see the first episode of Blue Murder recently and thought it utterly formulaic and uninteresting. I got a shock when I saw from the credits who wrote the script! Though I did think her last (?) book, Witness, was very good.
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