On the job, Janine Lewis deals with drive by executions, decomposed bodies, and abducted children. At home, she interviews nannies, schedules parent teacher conferences, and bolts breakfast on the run. Such is the life of a Detective Chief Inspector on the Manchester police force who also happens to be a single mum raising four kids. Caroline Quentin (Jonathan Creek,Men Behaving Badly) brings sensitivity, passion, and wry humor to her role as a woman balancing the demands of a high risk, high profile profession with the need to nurture her high maintenance g-british, g-family. Ian Kelsey (Casualty) co star as DI Richard Mayne, Janine's sexy second in command. - a source of romantic and sometimes professional tension on their tight knit team. In four taut crime g-british, g-dramas, Blue Murder realistically depicts the everyday toils and triumphs of police work alongside the insistent tug of g-british, g-family life for a single mother.