One into two equals bigamy

One into two equals bigamy
One into two equals bigamy

A body has sprouted in a front garden and Pc Joe Mason digs up evidence that suggests there were a few people who might have wanted to help the recently deceased male on his way out of this world. The dead man is Lesley Rumbold who, until he was shot dead, sold insurance and lived with wife Sonia (Susan Jameson – New Tricks). The grieving, newly-widowed Sonia tells Joe she thinks Ross Tilman murdered her husband because of he had a failed insurance claim. But Ross has an alibi: girlfriend Lynne Millwood. That’s that, then – or it would have been, but Joe finds a photo that leads him to Lesley’s other life and his other wife. She’s Margaret Millwood (Gwyneth Powell - Echo Beach) – Lynne’s mother. And Lesley was Lynne’s father. Now the police are thinking that Lynne killed Lesley with Ross’s help because she discovered he was a bigamist. The real murderer is much closer to home, though. The police discover that Lynne told Lesley’s other wife, Sonia, all about his double life and she didn’t take the news at all well. In fact, she’s planning on using the gun again... Oscar and co are tempted to use a gun on Alf when he moves into the pub while he has the builders in. Alf’s appetite and his snoring test their friendship to its limits...

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.