Richard Lindsell

A wired but charming and educated junkie couple ("we prefer the term chemically dependent") run their stolen car into a nice well to do thirty-something couple and when it gets all too hard, end up staying with them - first for a night, then a week and then for way too long.

Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked. Both books were integrated as episodes in the TV series. The series dealt with the cases confronted by an unconventional team of homicide detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden.