Harry Wild

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.

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.

A stuffy dinner party in the home of Harry’s former colleague goes awry when a vomiting bug hits all the guests but Harry. After the cause of the sickness is traced to a dead body in the home’s well, Charlie’s sergeant, Vicky Boyle, leads the investigation. Too eager to prove herself, Vicky makes some rash choices and zeroes in on Harry as the culprit, leaving Fergus to prove her innocence.

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.