A family of British detectives has its hands full with an insistent woman informing them of her husband's suspicious acts, a persistent surveillance equipment salesman, a stranger claiming to be part of the family business, and a vicious murder

Three generations of the Lunghi family live and work together, and when they take on a new case right before Christmas, it proves quite a handful. Especially when everyone seems to be a bit preoccupied: Mama wants to open a cafe; nerdy David is head over heels for a Dirty girl; Marie is meeting strange men in bars; Gina and Angela are out to help a glamorous client—and that's just the beginning.

Nation Day is a big day on Walcot Street. Thousands of people gather to enjoy music, food, drink and the eclectic pleasures of a giant street party. But it's different for people who live on Walcot Street and have businesses to run. Like the Lunghi family and their detective agency. For them Nation Day must be endured, overcome and only peripherally enjoyed. This year Angelo must fight through the crowds to meet a new client. His sister, Rosetta, took the if-you-can't-beat-'um option and joined the organizing committee so now she's on troubleshooting duty. But who expected the trouble to include a deaf body?

FAMILY TRIO contains three individual stories about the Lunghi family of private detectives in Bath. Previously published in Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazines, the stories have been significantly rewritten for inclusion here. The stories are “Gun Point,” “The Jane Case,” and “And Maybe More.” The Lunghi family is comprised of members from three generations who almost all live in the family complex on Bath’s Walcot Street. Everyone gets involved in agency cases, often making progress on them over meals or after-dinner wine. In "Gun Point" Angelo gets held up after his art class and Rosetta meets a policeman who is new to Bath.. In "The Jane Case" the Old Man starts going to the gym and ends up finding a client there. He solves the case with David's help. In "And Maybe More" Salvatore goes to dinner with a woman who advertised in a dating column in the newspaper - strictly business, of course - while Gina (with Mama's help) unravels the mystery of Marie's new source of income. There have been three novels about the Lunghi family (Family Business, Family Planning and Family Way, due for publication in December 2011.) Five other stories about the family have been published, with another due soon in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.