Laura Edwards, a student of Gender Studies,is found murdered in the university library. George and Jack investigate,though he annoys her by going on about new girlfriend Danielle. Laura's tutors point the detectives towards her circle of post-genderist,butch friends and the pair go undercover,George as a tutor and Jack a mature student. He manages to antagonize most of Laura's clique including ex-lover Rainbow,who says that Laura left her for a man,Ian,but he claims Laura used him and had sex with lots of men and women. One of these - or their jealous lover - is the murderer.

Alison Clarke is murdered and Over-Done scrawled in ketchup on her wall. She was a leading contestant in 'Kitchen Maestro' a TV cookery contest with abrasive chef Robert Randell and George goes undercover to take her place. She soon finds that,aside from nerdy but affable young Marcus,the other entrants are frighteningly competitive - and then a second contestant is killed. George is revealed to be a truly excellent cook but it is Jack who uses a culinary ruse to trap the culprit. However he is exposed when he tries to claim George's superb cooking is his own to impress new girlfriend Beth.