Elizabeth McKay

Les trois frères McMullen viennent de perdre leur père. A la veille de son départ pour son Irlande natale, où elle doit rejoindre l'homme qu'elle aime en secret depuis des années, leur mère leur donne un précieux conseil : ne pas gâcher leur vie sentimentale par lâcheté. Chacun des trois frères trouve bientôt l'occasion de se demander quelle est la meilleure façon d'interpréter les paroles maternelles. Jack, l'aîné, est marié à une femme qu'il adore, mais qu'il trompe avec une véritable bombe sexuelle. Patrick, le plus jeune, fervent catholique, attend de son frère, Barry, qu'il lui apprenne à approcher le sexe opposé, tandis que Barry, bien embarrassé, a beaucoup de mal à s'engager avec ses petites amies...

Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.

Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Parks. The house has been all but abandoned since its previous owner, Gerald Harboys had been committed to an asylum for the apparent murder of his wife Muriel on their wedding night. Harboys had been obsessive about the physical perfection of women and, discovering that Muriel had had her right middle toe amputated as a child, had murdered her. But her ghost is said to still haunt the old house.

A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues

After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.