When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV?s Big Blubber - the hot new celebrity weight-loss show - is murdered on live television in front of three-million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. After all, everyone saw Martin do it - didn?t they? Cherry Hinton knows there?s more to this than meets the eye. As an investigative reporter, she went undercover on dating show Caravan of Love ? but after getting in too deep with one of the other contestants,...

Two sisters go into the family business they didn?t know they had - catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries - her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency and she has a teenage half-sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted the night...

With Molly Murphy?s wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan quickly approaching, the Irish P.I. heads to the Westchester County countryside, where Daniel?s mother can counsel her on a bride?s proper place. Surprisingly, Molly seems to be agreeing with her future mother-in-law?s advice. Molly promises to leave her detective work behind and settle down after becoming Daniel?s wife ? but she isn?t married yet. So when she gets word of a possible case,...

Pearl Nolan receives a wedding invitation from an old school friend she hasn't seen for years. Amy, a journalist, has chosen somewhere very special for her wedding ceremony - the 17th century Kent country house of Mount Ephraim. Nestled in an 800-acre estate, Pearl sees this break as a chance to leave crime behind, along with her own detective agency and her restaurant, The Whitstable Pearl. Accepting Amy's invitation, Pearl also looks forward to...

It really is murder on the dance floor ... A new dance school has opened in Whitstable run by celebrity tango champions Tony and Tanya Ballard. Pearl Nolan knows herself to be an ace cook and a sharp private eye but has always left the dancing to her mother, Dolly, a former member of the town's infamous Fish Slappers dance troupe. But Pearl becomes intrigued by the Ballards when they visit The Whitstable Pearl restaurant, and she realises that dance...

When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns about the proposed construction of the flashy Big Fun Hotel next to a graveyard, she allows herself to be persuaded. Her opponent is none other than Violet Sephotho, who is in the pocket of the hotel developers. Although Violet is intent on using every trick in the book to secure her election, Mma Ramotswe refuses...

Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father, the late Obed Ramotswe. She feels that she knows all about his life - but does she? Sometimes our parents surprise us, and we discover that things were not quite what we thought them to be. And the same goes for Mma Makutsi, Mma Ramotswe's feisty assistant, who also makes certain discoveries about her own past that cause some surprise. The placid world of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is further...

New York, Autumn, 1907. Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other?s opinions in all things. So when he tells her they?re moving...

Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for women?s suffrage that lands her in jail... Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out, what with Chinese gangs battling for control of a thriving opium trade. The only consolation Molly can take from her vexing afternoon in the clink is that it made her some new friends...