The UCOS team are called in when the body of a lottery winner is discovered seventeen years after she went missing. It was assumed that she had just left the country as her car was found at Dover and her passport was missing but now it is clear that she was murdered. When she first disappeared her husband was questioned and he is the prime suspect now; although he protests his innocence and shows the team his research into her disappearance; is this proof of his innocence or an elaborate cover? He isn't the only suspect; the dead woman had been having an affair with one man and meeting another in Bristol. Away from the case the UCOS team, along with Danny's girlfriend Fiona, try to set Sasha up with a man
something she doesn't really appreciate.
This was another enjoyable case with a good range of suspects even if it does ultimately fall for the cliché of having the least obvious of the main guest characters as the guilty party; at least the motive for the crime wasn't too obvious. The suspects are mostly members of the winning lottery syndicate who are also members of a pub quiz team; this leads to an entertaining confrontation between two suspects in a pub as Ted and Steve watch. The guest cast; which includes Jack Deam, as the victim's husband, and Amanda Root, who plays his friend; do a good job keeping their characters believable. The side story with the team trying to find a boyfriend for Sasha doesn't add much to the overall story but it does provide some laughs especially when we learn that the boys were running a book on how far she'd go with the man Fiona had introduced her to.
This was another enjoyable case with a good range of suspects even if it does ultimately fall for the cliché of having the least obvious of the main guest characters as the guilty party; at least the motive for the crime wasn't too obvious. The suspects are mostly members of the winning lottery syndicate who are also members of a pub quiz team; this leads to an entertaining confrontation between two suspects in a pub as Ted and Steve watch. The guest cast; which includes Jack Deam, as the victim's husband, and Amanda Root, who plays his friend; do a good job keeping their characters believable. The side story with the team trying to find a boyfriend for Sasha doesn't add much to the overall story but it does provide some laughs especially when we learn that the boys were running a book on how far she'd go with the man Fiona had introduced her to.
