Since meeting 21 years ago while reporting on a Wellington murder trial for rival newspapers, friends Deb Morris and Dr Fran Tyler have turned their love of solving mysteries into a business.
Using their investigative skills and a “lifetime of knowing where to look”, the journalists-turned-genealogists have traced hundreds of lost family members, and beneficiaries of wills and estates.
But it was while unravelling the truth about their own family heritage that the pair uncovered a surprising plot twist – they’re actually