The Cleaner

Wicky faces the ultimate test of self-control: a job in a pub, after he's promised his new girlfriend he'll stay off the booze. But resisting a pint is the least of his challenges once he meets hard-bitten landlady Lisa and muscle-bound barman Cuddle. Wicky is there to clean up the devastation left by a lethal brawl, but as a web of romantic and criminal intrigue slowly unravels around him, Wicky realises there's more to this job than just cleaning up blood (and the occasional severed human ear).

Wicky is called to a theatre where a male strip show has got out of hand, resulting in a 40-woman brawl. He is there to clean up the mess, but a blood-splattered auditorium is the least of his problems once a self-important clown, a whimsical theatre manager, a feckless assistant and a broken fire alarm all combine to create a nightmare day at work.

Wicky is called to a shooting in a technology shop, where he finds himself sharing the night shift with Kai, a shelf-stacking conspiracy theorist who is preparing for the end of the world – which he insists is just around the corner. Is he paranoid or just being sensible? Wicky isn't sure, but either way, he has to decide where his own priorities lie.

There has been a tragic death in a stately home, and Wicky is on his way to clean up. But he's not the only person at the mansion with a job to do: there's a shaman on the scene as well, and he has his own mystical agenda. Wicky's not sure that there's room enough for both of them, and when you factor in an owl and possibly a ghost, things are looking positively crowded.

Wicky is called to a quiet town where someone has chucked a bucket of blood over a new statue in protest - goose blood, judging by the feathers and the beak. Wicky sets to work cleaning it, but the row about the statue is far from over. Tempers in the town are running high, and Wicky finds himself embroiled in a debate that looks like it might turn nasty.

A gamekeeper has been murdered in rural Wales, and it falls to Wicky to clean up the mess – whilst trying not to get in the way of the undertakers. But Wicky and the undertakers aren't the only people at the scene of the crime, and things take a turn for the sinister. Wicky knows that whatever happens on the job, it's important not to lose your head.