Murder in Suburbia - Series 2 - Region 1 DVD

Caroline Catz and Lisa Faulkner return as the cheeky police detectives Kate "Ash" Ashurst and Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins, still cracking wise as they crack six all-new cases in the tony British ’burb of Middleford. "Let me see," observes one of their adversaries. "You must be the blonde, dizzy, but at the same time practical, down-to-earth one." (That would be Scribbs.) "And you’re the dark, intense, ever-so-slightly neurotic one." (That would be Ash.) "Just one question—who does the jokes?" Actually, they both do, skewering middle-class mores while solving all manner of baffling mysteries. Their bemused boss (Jeremy Sheffield) keeps his charges under a loose rein—so long as their unorthodox style leads to closing cases.

Join Ash and Scribbs on their suburban beat, and see why their unique blend of humor and chutzpah has won legions of devoted mystery fans on both sides of the Atlantic.


The brash British crime-fighing duo of Ash and Scribbs--Kate Ashurst and Emma Scribbins--are back in fine cheeky form in the second series of Murder in Suburbia. The BBC series is unlike any American crime procedural, partly because of the comely and very real young women detectives who play the leads--they're slightly neurotic, their love lives are messy, and they actually admit to getting rattled when solving creepy cases. But their focus and offbeat crime-solving methods nearly always save the day. The series is as enjoyable for the banter between the two as for the actual crime plots involved. The episode "Witch," for instance, centers on a murder of a student at an exclusive country school, and draws Ash and Scribbs into not only an unsettling clique of witchcraft practitioners, but forces them to relive some of their own not so ideal high school days. Dry humor as much as their ingenuity saves the day. Scribbs: "Do you think there's some kind of IQ test you have to fail to be come an estate agent?" Ash: "Yeah. It's the same test all my ex-boyfriends failed." --A.T. Hurley