Unofficial Rosie
          In the heart of Liverpool lives Roisin Theresa Monaghan, known as Rosie. A newly unemployed, divorced mother of two, Rosie’s prospects are not bright. Crime beckons, but Rosie’s always disapproved of the criminal classes — "thieves, murderers, politicians". She was once (briefly) a store detective, though. And so Rosie advertises herself as a private eye.
          For a month the phone never stops ringing — mainly because it never starts ringing. Then comes the call that takes Rosie to her first case: unearthing corruption in the Refuse Department of Mersey City Council.
          As Rosie starts to dig the dirt, she is drawn into a web of blackmail and murder — and quickly learns that, even in the world of private enterprise, things don’t always come up rosy….

Rosie Among Thorns
          While trying to bring up two teenagers, juggle an increasingly complicated love-life and pay bills which arrive in various shades of red, Rosie finds herself involved in a bizarre case of kidnapping, only to discover that she is Suspect Number One….