When Peregrine and her friends take a fishing trip to soothe their various heartaches, Sam manages to hook a corpse, but all the bystanders have airtight alibis.
Peregrine gets a lesson in all things culinary when celebrated head chef at Samuel's ex-mother-in-law's international cookery school, Graham King, is murdered.
Birdie's past comes back to haunt her when her friend is found murdered after sending her a cryptic message. Peregrine's investigation takes her to a top secret military facility and rumours of alien abductions and UFOs.
A brawl at a bowling alley between rockers and mods leads to decapitation; when the police arrest Violetta's nephew for the murder, Peregrine tries to prove his innocence.
Peregrine's ex-boyfriend has been implicated in the murder of a pop singer from a popular television show and Peregrine is determined to investigate. Violetta's past may just be the key to solving the case.