After spending the night with a pipe-smoking gentleman caller, a woman is found dead with a jigsaw puzzle and a face full of cold cream.

Great Slaughter's annual giant marrow contest is interrupted when a dog digs up some seemingly ancient bones on the site. Is it the archeological discovery of a lifetime? Or is it murder?

Great Slaughter plays host to the summer roadshow of kids’ TV show ‘Jolly Roger’, much to the annoyance of editor Dinah Morgan. Timbers are soon shivered however when Dinah is discovered smothered onset during a live show. Sister Boniface is called in to investigate who could have committed the deed.

Peggy is delighted when an old school friend and supermodel Robin returns home to film a documentary but all goes awry once Max Savage, Robin's manager, is found dead locked in his bedroom.

It’s Christmas and Britain is in the grips of the worst winter on record. When a precious jewel is stolen from a snowbound train, the crime-solving nun uncovers murder, ancient curses and dark family secrets.