When a malicious poison pen writer targets both new and old residents of a small village, the prime suspect hires Hetty to find the real writer.
Blainthorp Village's Golden Voice competition is a tradition, but someone is systematically eliminating the contestants.
When the mentally challenged daughter of a local mayor runs away from the institution she lives in with her challenged boyfriend, they come across a dead body.
The daughter of an elderly, recently widowed woman feels that her mother is being bilked by a phony spiritualist and hires Hetty to expose her.
The family of a recently widowed older woman suspect the man she's involved with is a fortune hunter, so they hire Hetty to expose him.
Hetty goes undercover as a battered wife in an isolated shelter after an abused woman is accidentally killed fleeing her husband under questionable circumstances.