When Jamie breaks into a nursery school with a gun and takes hostages, he is trying to find his lover, Miro, who is missing together with a large sum of money intended for reconstruction in Iraq.

A woman is killed by a train and her lover doesn’t show up at the funeral. PI Zoë Boehm is hired to find him. Attempting to unlock the woman’s secrets, Zoe finds more and more questions.

One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker's explodes. The reported cause is a gas leak, but when a little girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah—a young married woman, bored with her life—becomes obsessed with finding her.

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down some robbers, she’s just looking for cash to pay off the taxman; she’s not expecting to wind up in a coffin. But death, like taxes, can’t be avoided forever.