THE A3 RAID, THE EUSTON BY — PASS JOB, THE M40 HIJACK... they all worked a treat. All magic. All the work of one mastermind — Harry Rawlins. But Harry blew it in the Blackwall Tunnel. Harry always said that if anything ever happened to him Dolly would be all right: Joe and Terry would take over, the team would look after everyone. But when Harry got blown to bits in the Blackwall Tunnel, Joe and Terry (God help them) went with him. Which only left Dolly, Linda and Shirley to run the business — the WIDOWS. A hard-hitting new gangland series in the sensational tradition of THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY and MINDER

Facing life alone, they had turned to crime together. Dolly Rawlins, Shirley Miller, Linda Pirelli and Bella O’Reilly set out to do the impossible, hold up an armed security wagon. Using Dolly Rawlins’ husband’s plans, they succeed and make their escape to Rio, leaving the bulk of their cash hidden in London. The women are free, rich, and ready to start a new life. When the scream has died down, they will return to share out their cash. Only the shadow of the man they had presumed dead hangs over them. Harry Rawlins is alive, and he wants the women’s money — and he will go to any lengths to retrieve what he feels is rightly his, even more so when he discovers his ‘widow’ has laid claim to all his business and banking assets. Rawlins is desperate to find his wife and through her the haul from the robbery. The hunt is on and the widows’ freedom short-lived

Dolly Rawlins is out. The unforgettable heroine of the most popular and exciting TV drama of the 1980s is free after serving a nine-year sentence for the murder of her husband. Waiting for Dolly is a group of women who all served time with her. They know she has stashed millions of pounds worth of diamonds from a raid and they want a cut. Also waiting is a detective sergeant in the Metropolitan Police. He holds her personally responsible for the death of his sister in the diamond raid ten years earlier. And now he wants her back inside. Dolly Rawlins has other plans: to realize the dream that kept her going for years in prison. But against such determined opposition, the fantasy soon turns into a very different, tragic and violent reality