15 Minute Drama: Deadheading

Best-selling crime writer Val McDermid turns to comedy capers among the carrots, as we rummage through the undergrowth with a murder on an allotment starring Julie Hesmondhalgh and Miriam Margolyes.

It is a case for Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, the Alpha Detective, her sergeant Jason Trotter, and Jo Blake the crime scene manager. Watch how the women behave towards each other. Rivals? Not quite. There may even be a barely detectable flirtatiousness between them.

In Episode 1 a body is found on an allotment in Cranby.

Director and producer/Justine Potter for Savvy Productions

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