10 Bloody Slices

These 'bloody slices' of life, love and loneliness are packed with an eclectic range of characters and scenarios set in the UK, USA and one that takes the protagonist on a nostalgic journey to France to revisit the adventures of a former life. There's also a story about Mel and Fred, two wise-cracking New Yorkers, a budding actor playing the part of a super-hero and a sardonic Fleet Street journalist with a paranoia over the boring people he comes into contact with. There's tragedy here too with a long forgotten Blues singer and a story of a forty-year birth separation mixed with the capture of a serial killer. Whatever the story and the travails of the characters, can you guess the denouement for each of the bloody slices?