Former literature professor Harriet "Harry" Wild is trying to adjust to retirement when she's injured in a mugging. While recovering at the home of her son, senior detective Charlie, Harry looks at his files and realizes his latest investigation bears similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie dismisses her insights, she decides to find the killer—with aid from a surprising source.

Une femme aborde Harry et son nouvel acolyte Fergus Reid : son mari est mort dans de mysterieuses circonstances l'annee derniere et elle voudrait qu'ils menent l'enquete.

Due to their new notoriety, Harry and Fergus are approached by a woman desperate to find out how her husband died. Although reluctant to get involved, Harry's interest is soon piqued. When she and Fergus uncover a deadly gambling operation, Harry turns over the evidence to Charlie, vowing to stay out of it. Unfortunately, the killers have other ideas.

When a body is pulled out of the river near Harry's local pub, something about the dead man feels familiar to Harry. When she remembers how she knows him, she realizes she's stumbled onto the ultimate misdirect. Harry and Fergus go undercover, with the assistance of Harry's teenage granddaughter, Lola, to find the truth. Along the way, Harry starts to grow closer to Ray, Charlie's boss and mentor.

Harry and Fergus agree to help a local loan shark known as Happy find out who murdered his employee; in return, Happy will cancel the sizeable debt owed by Fergus's father. Harry notices links between the killing and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," which brings her to the attention of fledgling serial killer Billy Lund.

Le fils de Happy est brutalement assassine. Ne faisant pas confiance a la police, Happy fait appel a Fergus et Harry pour traquer le meurtrier.

When a vomiting bug ruins a dinner party that Harry is attending, the cause is found to be a dead body in the well. With Charlie away, Harry becomes the prime suspect.

A violent storm traps Harry, Fergus, and Lola in the local pub. Cut off from the outside world by flooded roads and downed phone lines, the trio are put in even more peril when they discover a kidnap victim in a car. After freeing the man, they realize the kidnapper must be one of the handful of strangers trapped in the pub with them.

When a wealthy matriarch is strangled to death during a video call with her horrified relatives, the woman's daughter employs the services of the Wild/Reid Detective Agency. The agency being Fergus's brainchild, Harry is as surprised as anyone to discover it exists but agrees to indulge him. Money seems to be the motive for the murder, but everyone who stands to inherit was on the call.

Zoe McCann is a recovering addict fighting each day to slay her demons. But when she is abducted only to wake up in a forest wearing a vintage ballgown, her sanity and resolve are pushed to the limit. Terrified that her unknown abductor will return, Zoe seeks out the help of Harry and Fergus. After When Zoe is kidnapped again, how far will they go to save her life?

Zoe McCann demande l’aide de Harry et Fergus. Victime d’un enlevement, elle a reussi a s’echapper, se retrouvant dans une foret vetue d’une robe de bal. La jeune femme etant une ancienne toxicomane, la police ne croit pas a sa version des faits…