Mystery Woman

Samantha inherits a mystery bookshop and questions an apparent suicide. The pilot introduces her habit of treating an accepted explanation as the beginning of an investigation.

An attempted murder at the bookshop brings Samantha and Philby back to work. Watch this after the pilot to move from the introduction into their regular partnership.

A customer suspects a family death was deliberate, then dies herself. Samantha must consider what that accusation exposed. This is a case to watch for competing accounts within a family.

A charity concert turns the bookshop into a crime scene when the band's manager dies. The performers give Samantha a different circle of suspects to question.

A spa weekend ends with a guest's death. Moving Samantha away from the shop changes who she can call on and gives the investigation a new setting.

A reclusive writer dies after a bookstore appearance. For a series built around mystery readers, this case brings the distance between crime fiction and actual violence especially close.

A hereditary health concern sends Samantha looking for her birth mother. Keep this in sequence if her personal history matters to you as much as the weekly case.

A cowboy dies when a travelling Western show visits town. The performance setting makes a useful change after At First Sight's more personal starting point.

A baby arrives at the bookshop without its parents. Samantha's search connects their disappearance with a murder, giving her an immediate responsibility beyond identifying a killer.

Renovations do not keep trouble out of the bookshop: a visitor's murder gives Samantha and Philby another case. This is the later Redemption film in the sequence.

International espionage draws Samantha and Philby into danger. Save this final film for the end, when his secretive nature has had time to become part of the series.