When Helen Tudor-Fisk's life falls apart, she takes a job in a small suburban firm specializing in wills and probate, assuming that because the clients are dead she won't have to deal with people.
Helen mediates a case about division of cremains, between a bereaved daughter and and the new, much younger partner of her dead father. She also has an awkward family lunch at Dad and Viktor's house.
Helen meets with a woman who is demanding power of attorney over her mother and attends her ex-husband William's writer's festival run by literary interlocutor, Lindy Baxter-Smythe.
The office is abuzz because their favourite temp Peggy is coming in to help out with a deceased estate. Helen doesn't understand what's so fun about Fun Peggy, but everyone else, including George, thinks she's a 'hoot'.
Helen meets formidable opposing counsel Alice Pike, and stumbles upon Roz's passion project; an all-woman harmony group for funerals called The Sadrigals. Alice Pike makes a complaint to the board about Roz.
Gruber and Gruber is nominated for a Small Business Award and Helen consults with a man who believes he is the son of a famous newsreader. At Dad's house, Helen meets personal trainer, Blayden Tork.
