The Gentle Touch

Maggie's skills are put to the test by an unusual robbery case; Maggie faces a moral dilemma after overhearing her son talking about watching a "dirty" movie.

Maggie goes under cover as a bar maid hoping to trap a serial sex offender, but making herself a target places her in grave danger.

A burglary at the office of a solicitor who prosecutors for the police leads to a crisis situation.

Maggie investigates after Ivor Stocker, a successful businessman and lawyer, is threatened with blackmail.

A series of robberies with violence have been reported. All have a similar pattern, and all are carried out by women. Maggie Forbes and her police team are puzzled to know who these women are. Or could it be one woman in many disguises.

Det.-Insp. Maggie Forbes spends a frustrating day at the law courts. She feels she would be much usefully employed trying to solve the criminal cases that keep arriving on her desk.

When Mrs Beresford, wife of a wealthy and respected businessman, is threatened with a knife by a menacing masked figure, who then runs away, leaving her unharmed, DI Maggie Forbes find herself assigned to the case.

Maggie is looking forward to a hard-earned weekend break and a with Alan Lawson. Her son Steve wants mum out of the way and it looks as though both plans could be thwarted - until help arrives from an unexpected source.

Maggie investigates when a badly beaten boy refuses to name his attackers.

Maggie's delight at being courted by the wealthy Dave Connolly, who gives her a Victorian ring, soon changes to suspicion.