Sleuth 101

John Wood plays Bill Quinn, a family man who is hated by his family and with good reason. Bill gets killed on Christmas Day, smothered by the stomach padding of his Santa suit. Guest detective Dave O'Neil is on the scene.

Frankie J Holden stars as Kyle Bowman, lead singer of 70s rockers The Dead Dogs, who gets murdered - stabbed by his own ARIA award. Match wits with a not-so-great detective as you try to sort out fact from fiction, clues from red herrings and the innocent from the guilty. Guest detective Frank Woodley must unravel the mess of lies, infidelity and Lily Allen.

In the office of TorbLab creator and designer of the virtual online world of Sirius 9. System administrator Cache (Sam Johnson), or Darren Gablonsky as he is known by his parents, has been deleted. Cache collapses after drinking his regular black coffee. But which of his nerdy colleagues, stopped playing the online role-playing game long enough to poison his cup? Claire Hooper is on hand to unravel the mystery.

Karma Kutz Beauty Salon. Bridget Wilmott (Caroline Craig), bride to be, has been found dead, crushed by the solarium she was using to make herself beautiful on the most important day of her life. There is no shortage of people who wanted to see her dead, so Adam Richard has a curly one to solve.

Ramsay McGordon (Mark Mitchell) keels over while tasting the last meal in the final of a new reality show. Given that the contestants are all convicted felons, he probably should have seen it coming. Pete Rowsthorn gets the taste for murder as he tries his hand at detective work.

Breaking news is that late night news reader for radio station Noyz FM, Rachel Timms (Kimberely Davies) has been murdered. It’s the biggest news story of the year and she won’t be able to report it. A radio newreader with a great future ahead of her - that is until someone strangled her with a mic cable before the midnight news. Guest detective Julia Morris is thrown into the graveyard shift on this one.

Picture this: an artist's model (Annalise Brackenseck) turns out to be the country's most wanted criminal. She also turns out to be quite dead. Was this someone's idea of justice, or is there another motive? Can Hamish Blake draw himself away from the photos of the body long enough to solve the crime?