They planned his murder, they just didn't mean to kill him.

Never in the history of the world have there been more things to become addicted to. Unsurprising then that addicts today come in all shapes and sizes. A gentle doctor. An overachieving daughter. A prickly old lawyer. A cool younger husband. A kindergarten teacher. An ER nurse. An almost famous actor. A feisty academic. A disenfranchised priest.

You probably know an addict. Maybe you are one. Maybe you just don't know it.

The Nine

The Nine meet in a 12-step recovery group. They soon bond over hating the same guy. During a misguided attempt at catharsis they plot his perfect (theoretical) murder. Years later they watch in horror as someone else commits it. What should they do? Call the cops? Confess? Cover it up? Do monsters deserve justice? Can all Nine hold the line?

The Kids

Three, young, delinquent, quasi-celebrities find themselves on the wrong side of the law. A fallen sporting hero and TV star, busted for cocaine possession. Again. A handsome, champion boxer, turned outlaw biker gang member, locked up for GBH. And the daughter of a famed brain surgeon, booked for DUI.

To keep them out of jail, their lawyers leverage Section Ten, a little-known sentencing law which allows them to swap jail for a Byron Bay rehab. They all assume rehab is safer than jail. But is it?

London, 1980s

Jenny McLean and Jill Darling are living every '80s housewife's dream. There’s just one hitch—Jenny’s little boy, Larry, isn’t grasping social concepts. But Jenny is determined to love him into normality. When Larry meets Jill’s sweetheart son, Hamish, there’s an instant rapport between the eleven-year-olds. Larry is transformed. Jenny is convinced he's fixed. Then he does something so unimaginably horrific, the entire world is shocked.

Detective Sergeant, Emma Jones

DS EJ is thirty-two, five-foot-four, has spicey red hair and is a homicide squad hot shot. She's also six months pregnant, totally single, happily clueless about babies and determined not to let her bosses "belly bench" her.

Can EJ unpick the threads that bind The Nine, The Kids, the McLeans and the Darlings to the dead man? Will her dogged addiction to the truth push her past the limits of the law? How far is too far?

Ten secrets, six addictions, four decades, three bodies, two cops and at least one killer. You'll be Addicted too.