Böcker av Adriana K Wood

In the title story of this collection, Alysson was raised to believe in a sisterhood of women. She is plunged into a world where the 'sisters' are twisted. Women set her up at work by a malicious prank. A manager tries to molest her. These events occur in the stories set in a fictitious agency where she is a badly treated casual. In 'Bad Neighbours', Trudy, Alysson, the owner of the property, and most of the street, are victimised, any hour of the day and night, by a rowdy drug fiend, Trixie. while police and public health agencies are only concerned about Trixie's civil rights and political correctness. Unexpected allies come up with a shady solution. Alysson meets a sinister character in 'Death at a Railway Station' and a few snake charmers in 'The Snake Charmer'. In the final stories, a feisty, red-haired private investigator, Kristy, tracks down various mysterious characters, including a runaway house wife, Isobel, Lindsay, a university student, and his mysterious wife, Tamsin. Kristy also searches for a mysterious hacker who isn't what he seems. She is put in danger by a shady character in 'The Cult'.

Kristy and Lawrence are a couple who work together as Private Investigators.Kristy is fascinated by the paranormal while Lawrence remains sceptical.She has added psychic skills to her resume which has lead her to being relegated to the role of nanny when she applies for investigate work. She is rescued from this role by a distraught mother, Suzanne, who is convinced her son , Eddy, was murdered.Eddy has died in a house fire, along with a young girl assumed to be Ashlin,who had been left in charge of the house. Kristy is led deeper into the maze of relationships of Eddy and Ashlin and Eddy's family. Kristy finds Ashlin's journal and is fascinated by her account of a young boy and girl dying, in a fire, in a house by the sea. Finally, the case appears to have been wrapped up, at least from sceptical Lawrence's point of view, but following events show all is not as it seems.