Joanne Kilbourn was a top police detective, until her distress over the unsolved murder of her husband caused her to leave the force to become a university lecturer. Still trying to help her three children deal with the death of their father, she gets drawn back into another murder investigation when her old friend, flighty artist Sally Love, comes back to town for an exhibit. When Sally's ex-husband turns up dead, Jo's old partner Millard lists Sally as the main suspect. Jo must determine if Sally is innocent or guilty; she also must figure out how the present day murder fits in with the mysterious death of Sally's father at their summer cottage twenty years ago.
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband, Ian. At a fund raiser picnic thrown by her husband's old running-mate, Andy Boychuk, Jo and her old partner Millard overhear Andy arguing with a young woman who claims he is the devil. When the woman turns up dead later that night, Andy is Millard's chief suspect. Jo must determine whether or not her friend is guilty, and get to the truth behind the murder. Meanwhile, she continues to try to help her three children deal with the death of their father, and to integrate her newly adopted daughter, Taylor, into the family.
When one of her daughter's employees is murdered, ex-cop Joanne Kilbourn discovers that the girl is merely the latest victim of an apparent serial killer. After publicly accusing the police of bumbling the investigation, she is assigned by a local TV station to investigate further and produce an exposé.
Ex-detective Joanne Kilbourn now works as a university lecturer and a ""law and order"" commentator for the local news. She is reminded of the reason why she left the force when the six-year-old case file on her husband's murder is reopened and a suspect, Kevin Tarpley, is arrested. Kevin denies being the killer but does seem to have insider information about Ian's death; unfortunately, Kevin is gunned down in the street soon after his arrest. When Joanne is confronted by Kevin's mysterious wife, Maureen Gault, at a party in front of all of Ian's old politician friends, she begins investigating. Soon, she finds herself the chief suspect in a murder, and she also discovers that Ian's old friends aren't exactly friends to her. This film is the fourth in a series featuring Joanne Kilbourn; it resolves the murder of her husband and her longstanding flirtatious relationship with her ex-partner, Millard.
Joanne Kilbourn investigates the murder of the dean of a university School of Journalism where she was once a professor.
When a prominent and wealthy judge is murdered just as she is about to retire, Joanne's biographical piece on the judge's career turns into a search for the who and why of the killing. Former convicts she was helping become the prime suspects, particularly one with whom she was romantically involved.