User Reviews

This episode is very strong and powerful from the very start. All the characters are potential killers. They all have a motive and none has an alibi. And the solution that will come out is a little bit easy because of the final discovery of the murder weapon that should never have been found and especially not with finger prints on it if the ultimate outcome is to be believed. That's maybe a weakness among the plot-writers. A Deus Ex Machina coming out of nowhere. The end of the second season. The need of a vacation, or is it a holiday? We'll see in the next series if the weakness has been strengthened enough to enable the series to last some more. But the culprit is unluckily a very difficult case that cannot be depicted in any way, thence the weakness in the plot.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

A young woman is found stabbed in her house, and the only witness seems to be the autistic boy she looked after and who cannot speak. There are indications that the killer must have been very tall, and the victim had no defense wounds on her arms. DCI Janine Lewis and her team start investigating her past; it seems that she had an ex-lover that she was running away from.

Though not as good as "Up In Smoke", this episode of "Blue Murder" still has plenty of red herrings to divert you; the final solution is both very simple and makes perfect sense. A new addition to the team, a female detective played by Liz White, is very cute ("Do you think he'll go for me?", she asks at one point, about a suspect she's going to meet in speed-dating. "I'll say he will", is everyone's reaction, including mine). **1/2 out of 4.

Series 2 rounds off with the grisly murder of a childminder stabbed to death in her own flat.

DCI Lewis finds an important lead but he is a 12 year old autistic boy called Fergus who might have been present when the murder took place. Fergus is unable to talk to anyone and lives in his own world.

The dead woman seemed to have had a secret lover and was into speed dating. Her landlord is creepy and she had a violent ex.

There are a lot of suspects and Lewis finds that DI Mayne could be leaving for new pastures.

As ever some some suspects are crossed off the list and new ones emerge.

I kept wondering if Fergus was left alive. The killer would had knew him or were confident that Fergus would be no help to the police. That really should had narrowed the pool of suspects.

I did not buy the reveal at the end. I was not impressed by it when the police placed so much emphasis on the height of the potential killer.