Amateur jockey Ian Pembroke uncovers a dark secret from the past and finds himself in a situation more dangerous than a high stakes horse race.

In a small town in Quebec a woman supposedly loved by her community is found in the woods, murdered.

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect.

Spunky Phryne Fisher leaves her adopted London for 1920s Australia to investigate the desperate letters she has been receiving from well-bred Lydia, a young woman married to a low-down scoundrel.