Memory Man
Amos Decker, a detective who cannot forget, hunts the link between his family murder and a school shooting.
2,931-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: crime
264 books with this tag.
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Jar of Hearts
At sixteen Geo helped bury her best friend. Fourteen years later the body is found, she goes to prison, and the killing starts again.
2,389-word summary · 11 min read
How to Kill Your Family
Grace Bernard avenges her dying mother by hunting her rich estranged family, narrating from prison with dark humor.
2,913-word summary · 13 min read
Four to Score
Stephanie hunts waitress Maxine Nowicki through coded clues, firebombs, and counterfeit cash while living with Morelli in Trenton.
2,870-word summary · 13 min read
End of Watch
A dying Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney face Brady Hartsfield again, as rigged game consoles push hurt teens toward suicide.
2,923-word summary · 13 min read
Camino Island
A Princeton manuscript heist pulls a blocked young writer into spying on a charming Florida bookstore owner who may hold the loot.
2,984-word summary · 13 min read
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two Louisiana women swap lives for twelve hours to spy on a husband, then he turns up murdered and only one of them has an alibi.
2,278-word summary · 10 min read
Three to Get Deadly
Stephanie hunts a beloved candy man holding army money everyone wants.
1,981-word summary · 9 min read
The Sign of Four
Mary Morstan's pearls lead Holmes and Watson from foggy London to Agra treasure and a Thames chase.
2,114-word summary · 9 min read
The Lost Colony
Artemis and Holly chase returning demons while a rival genius risks everything for fame.
1,903-word summary · 8 min read
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Blomkvist chases a murdered AI scientist's story while Salander shields an autistic boy who draws killers.
2,035-word summary · 9 min read
The Fury
A playwright narrates a murder on a movie stars private Greek island and admits he is lying.
1,962-word summary · 9 min read
The Big Sleep
Marlowe takes a blackmail job for the Sternwoods and finds murder and daughters money cannot save.
2,243-word summary · 10 min read
The Arctic Incident
Artemis ransoms his father in Russia while Holly hunts goblin batteries.
1,952-word summary · 9 min read
Stillhouse Lake
Acquitted wife of a serial killer becomes armed Gwen Proctor, but trolls and followers find her lake refuge.
2,086-word summary · 9 min read
My Sister's Grave
Detective Tracy Crosswhite reopens her sister disappearance and finds town secrets still guarded.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read
Little Secrets
A mother missing a son finds her husband cheating and handles both herself.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
Joyland
Heartbroken Devin works a 1973 carny summer, probes an old Horror House murder, and befriends dying Mike.
2,059-word summary · 9 min read
Finders Keepers
A boy finds a murdered writer's notebooks while the killer leaves prison hunting them and Hodges closes in.
2,157-word summary · 10 min read
Déjà Dead
A forensic anthropologist names bagged women police dismiss in Montreal.
1,960-word summary · 9 min read
A Slow Fire Burning
A young man stabbed on a London houseboat leaves three simmering women and a stolen memoir behind.
2,074-word summary · 9 min read
Two for the Dough
Janet Evanovich's Two for the Dough retold: Stephanie Plum's second hunt, a missing gun dealer, Morelli and Ranger, and why Trenton still charms.
3,677-word summary · 16 min read
The Whisper Man
Widower Tom Kennedy moves with his son Jake to Featherbank, where a child killer called the Whisper Man once hunted. When boys vanish again, Tom must face old…
2,492-word summary · 11 min read
The Likeness
A detective poses as her murdered double and moves in with four graduate students to find the killer.
2,751-word summary · 12 min read