women detectives

Flamboyant divorcee Mary Alice, better known as "Sister, " decides to buy her favorite hang-out, the Skoot 'n' Boot bar despite the disapproval of her respectable sister Patricia Anne, but the disagreement does not keep the women from teaming up to solve a crime when a dead body is found in the pub's wishing well.

A peaceful Christmas weekend in the Berkshire countryside is disrupted by tragic events that no one, not even clever aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould, anticipated.

Resolving to avoid son of Satan and new next-door neighbor Reyes Farrow, Charley Davidson is forced to ask for Reyes's help when she is approached by desperate ghosts and her sister is targeted by a serial killer.

Stumbling onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint races to prevent additional deaths and realizes that the killer is taunting her with secrets from her past.