The premiere of Jazz singer Olivia Maitland's life story is being filmed in London. The book caused a furore when it was first published over fifty years ago, the threads of the story being woven together with a potent mixture of fame, wealth, drugs and murder. However the ghost-writer is the only person left alive who has extracted the truth from the tangled web of lies hidden within its pages.

Apple Orchard is not everyone's favourite character in the long running soap opera The Orchards of Bluestone Bay. But, when she is murdered and DCI Norman Freeman's relative is the chief suspect, Private Investigator Richie Stevens and his assistant Sandy Smith become involved in the investigation. Solving the case amidst a seething cauldron of inflated egos and jealousies involves a shift of emphasis in the existing relationship between Richie and Sandy. But how with this develop and why has Sandy suddenly disappeared?

Successful artist Olwen Pritchard returns to the village where her family house is being sold. Memories of the year she was eight and thought to have died resurface and mingle with the present. But there is a sting in the tale of this poignant story of recollection.