Literature professor Harriet "Harry" Wild is struggling to adjust to her recent retirement when she's mugged. While recuperating at the home of her son, Charlie, a senior detective in the Dublin police, Harry reads case files and notices that his current murder inquiry bears striking similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie rebuffs her input, Harry decides to find the killer herself to prove she was right. Little does she realize that this decision will lead her to a whole new life. When Harry crosses paths with wayward teen Fergus Reid, she recruits his help in her investigation. Much to the dismay of Charlie and his wife, soon the unlikely pair are solving mysteries involving criminals who range from fledgling serial killers with Dostoevsky fixations to kidnappers, con artists, and psychopaths--Adapted from container.