The South is on the rise, and the North is on the march in this humorous mystery where Alabama proud Emme Dickson meets Boston born Jackie Mayson. Two women, complete strangers, each summoned by a cryptic letter to Washington, D.C. In the capital they will discover family secrets, big, weird, bat-crap crazy secrets, tick off numerous government agencies, just miss an assassins bullet and be given new lives sharing the same house, where the only thing preventing another war between the states is the mystery that has become their lives. On the trail of secrets they discover that together they have a knack for solving murders. Mayson and Dickson Investigations is born over a pitcher of margaritas, one disgusting dead body on the beach, and along a line of division that gets a little twisted. Investigating family secrets under the guise of being private investigators seems like a good idea until real dead bodies keep dropping on them. Northern Logic, Southern Charm and Murder!