"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband...

The stalwart investigative team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus tackles a case that has unsettling repercussions for their own lives.

When the sex-starved daughter of a screen star claims to have been raped and beaten, Peter Decker and his wife sift through a morass of family secrets in order to get to the truth.

While on his honeymoon, Detective Peter Decker becomes involved in an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from a strict Jewish community. Decker soon learns that the boy is running with a known serial killer who is only too happy to show the runaway the glorified life of crime. With his new marriage already strained, Decker must not only get to the boy before the killer corrupts him, but before his relationship falls apart as well.

In 1924, while visiting an old school friend's home for the annual Guy Fawkes celebration, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is stunned by the supposed suicide of the tyrannical head of the family, who may also have killed a guest.

Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son's biological mother upends Decker's home life.