Retired detective Alexa Crowe is intent only on fixing her bread maker when her old boss contacts her for help on an unsolved case, and Alexa can’t help but investigate.

A man is shot dead in a motel room, with the windows and door locked from the inside. Madison discovers a connection to a crook Alexa knows from her undercover work.

When the CFO of a hospitality empire dies on a cycling ride with friends, the coroner rules it death by misadventure, but Kieran suspects the involvement of Hugh’s boss.

When a culinary student is found dead in the school’s kitchen, Alexa goes undercover to a cooking class to smoke out the killer.

A PR assistant’s death by a drunk driver seems like a closed case, but a mysterious message prompts Alexa to investigate the woman’s glamourous boss for answers.

When a true-crime podcast blames Kieran for the lack of progress on an investigation into the killing of a young gay man, who was found with a cult-like symbol on his forehead, Alexa is determined to help Kieran out. It soon becomes clear that not only does the podcaster want to remain anonymous, but that he or she knows intimate details about the victim.

Alexa revisits better days-or at least younger ones-after her beloved high-school teacher is crushed to death by a boat rack. Acting on Kieran’s hunch that the rack didn’t collapse by accident, Alexa looks into Miranda Lee, the new principal-who also happens to be her old classmate and frenemy.

While jogging one morning, Alexa collapses on the bridge named in honor of her late husband. As she confronts her mortality, Kieran takes the opportunity to hand her the case of Patrick Mandel, a gambling addict found buried in an already occupied grave. Alexa investigates the victim’s girlfriend-who is suspiciously a funeral director.

When Kieran presents Alexa with another unsolved murder-a nurse stabbed in the back a week after proposing to his girlfriend-Alexa declines until Kieran mentions the involvement of clairvoyant Chloe Angel, who knows details about the case not released to the public. Ever the skeptic, Alexa is determined find the killer and prove that Chloe is a phony.

As Alexa’s birthday approaches, Kieran gives her an early present: the case of a plastic surgeon obsessed with getting her own cosmetic procedures, who died after self-administering an anti-wrinkle drug she developed. Alexa questions the husband-and-wife team that own the clinic where the victim worked.

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