Sally Abbott

Crime investigations against a stunning seaside backdrop are at the heart of this drama series following a high-flying solicitor who returns to live and work in the small town she escaped as a teenager. As coroner, Jane Kennedy's job is the investigate sudden or unexplained deaths in the beautiful seaside community.

Suicide or murder? Searching for the truth makes Coroner Jane Kennedy glad she left her big-city law practice. Her beautiful coastal hometown has everything she could ask for: corpses, suspense, and a childhood sweetheart. Natural death, accident or foul play? It's all in a day's work when a skydiver opens a faulty parachute, a lifeboat volunteer drowns in a hoax alarm, and a faceless man washes up on the beach. Ten entertaining episodes of mystery,...

Jane is reconnected with an old school friend when she tries to find out who left a teenage girl to die after a car crash.

When Mick's rival landlord is found dead on the beach, Jane is forced to try to clear his name before he is charged with murder.

When a local journalist tries to convince the people of Lighthaven that there is a big cat on the moors, nobody believes him, until the discovery of his mauled body.

When building work at an abandoned cottage unearths a child's hidden remains, Jane uncovers other well-kept family secrets.

Jane's fear of heights is put to the test when she and Davey investigate a skydiving accident and discover that someone has tampered with the parachute.

After a hoax callout, a volunteer in the Lighthaven lifeboat crew drowns. Jane suspects foul play, but Davey is skeptical - until other volunteers start to be targeted.

When a treasure hunter is found dead in his own home, Jane wonders whether one of his colleagues wanted the loot for themselves, while the locals fear it was something more supernatural...

The mystery of why a window cleaner is found dead next to a sports car he doesn't own leaves Jane with questions for a property entrepreneur she suspects is hiding something.