When three women are brutally murdered in four nights, private detective John Duval, ex-lieutenant commander in Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for the sexual killer stalking Portsmouth's silent hours.
'Girls like Magic' explores the blurring lines of the friendship between MAGIC, a naive people-pleasing Brit and JAMIE, a hard-edged, self-sabotaging lesbian as they fall for each other in more ways than one.
A young couple's sex acts are witnessed by a young man through a hole in the wall. When the wife seduces him, they engage in an illicit affair. Chaos ensues when the husband learns about them.