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"Former pro wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead, now a fully-fledged private investigator, is riding high after his first successful case. In this second episode, Jed leaves the wrestling realm to enter a new arena: women's flat-track roller derby. When old acquaintance Stormy Daze seeks his help finding her team's missing coach, Jed discovers that the turnbuckle-and-metal-chair mayhem of the wrestling ring pales in comparison to roller derby's four-wheeled ferocity.

On a Saturday bright with harbingers of spring, Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their family prepare to celebrate the season. Joanne's life is full, and at 60, she has been given the chance to understand a part of her history that for years was shrouded in secrecy. Living Skies is producing Sisters and Strangers, a six-part TV series about the tangled relationships between the families of Douglas Ellard, the father who raised Joanne, and Desmond Love, her biological father. Joanne is working on the script with Roy Brodnitz, a brilliant writer and friend.

When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.

A local lord asks Hugh of Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit, identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith.

When the body of a young woman is found at a popular ski mountain, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team. They quickly have a suspect and a confession, but not everyone on the team is convinced.

Former SAS soldier David Shelley was a special forces operative and has settled down to civilian life in London. But the mysterious death of a young girl sends her parents seeking his help.

With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.

Librarian Lucy Richardson unearths a mysterious map dating back to the Civil War. But after bodies start turning up, Lucy realizes that if she can't crack its code, she may end up read and buried.

Willie Black knew he had a father, even if he didn't know where he was buried. Artie Lee, a saxophonist and race man who did not suffer bigots gladly, died in a car crash. Willie knew that. When he starts figuratively digging, though, he finds out more than he really wanted to know. Eventually, he'll discover how a double-homicide at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1960 connects with an auto wreck on a deserted road a year later.

There is a serial killer loose, targeting men with AIDS. Dave Brandstetter's search for the killer leads him into the dark side of gay Los Angeles, where death comes without warning and life is a fearful dream.