The Dinner
Two couples meet for dinner in Amsterdam to decide what to do about a violent crime their teenage sons committed.
2,958-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: crime
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The Bone Collector
A quadriplegic forensics expert and a rookie patrol officer hunt a taxi-driving kidnapper who leaves bone and paper clues across 1990s New York. The rescue…
2,960-word summary · 13 min read
The Alienist
In 1896 New York, alienist Laszlo Kreizler, reporter John Moore and Sara Howard hunt a killer of boy prostitutes while police commissioner Roosevelt backs…
3,099-word summary · 14 min read
Lethal White
When troubled Billy reports a buried child, Strike and Robin untangle blackmail around minister Chiswell in a long London case that strains their partnership.
3,063-word summary · 14 min read
I Am Pilgrim
A retired spy turned crime writer is pulled back when a grisly New York murder points toward a hidden bioterror plot, and the hunt runs from forensics to the…
3,023-word summary · 13 min read
House Rules
Jodi Picoult's 2010 House Rules follows Jacob Hunt, a teen with Asperger syndrome accused in his tutor's death, as his mother Emma and brother Theo face police…
3,079-word summary · 14 min read
Firekeeper's Daughter
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine stays on Sugar Island past graduation and helps the FBI look into overdose deaths tied to a drug ring in her Ojibwe community.
3,035-word summary · 13 min read
Billy Summers
A hitman takes one last job in Red Bluff, poses as a writer, and runs when the setup turns on him.
2,882-word summary · 13 min read
Watching You
A new wife in Bristol fixates on a charismatic neighbor while a teen boy logs every move before a murder.
2,363-word summary · 11 min read
The White Tiger
A poor driver writes to the Chinese Premier about rich masters, corruption, and murder.
2,251-word summary · 10 min read
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
A blocked writer tries to clear his mentor Harry Quebert after a girl missing since 1975 is found buried with his famous manuscript.
2,192-word summary · 10 min read
The Rainmaker
Broke rookie Rudy Baylor sues an insurer over a denied transplant and faces Leo Drummond at trial.
3,040-word summary · 14 min read
The Naturals
Teen profiler Cassie Hobbes joins an FBI program for gifted teens and hunts a killer tied to her past.
2,401-word summary · 11 min read
The Good Daughter
Twenty eight years after a home invasion shattered her family, a lawyer witnesses a school shooting that reopens old wounds.
2,505-word summary · 11 min read
The Black Echo
Harry Bosch links a fellow veteran's death to a tunnel bank robbery and a dangerous FBI investigation in Los Angeles.
2,133-word summary · 9 min read
Shutter Island
A U.S. marshal hunts a missing patient on a locked asylum island in 1954, where every clue turns back on him.
2,761-word summary · 12 min read
Paint It All Red
Lana Myers faces her final targets as FBI agent Logan Bennett closes in, forcing a choice between love and law.
2,827-word summary · 13 min read
Naked in Death
In 2058 New York, Lt. Eve Dallas hunts the killer of a senator's granddaughter and collides with suspect Roarke.
2,470-word summary · 11 min read
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
A broke single mom novelist is mistaken for a hitwoman over lunch and takes the job. Funny crime caper, first in the series.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
All the Lies
Logan doubts everything he trusted as Lana returns to the town that buried the truth, in Mindf*ck book four.
2,633-word summary · 12 min read
A Is for Alibi
Out of prison after eight years, Nikki Fife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to re-investigate her husband's poisoning, and a second death cracks the case open.
2,118-word summary · 9 min read
The Kind Worth Killing
A plane seat chat about murder becomes a pact, then a game where no one tells the full truth.
2,080-word summary · 9 min read
The Butterfly Garden
An FBI team questions a tattooed survivor of a garden where girls were kept as living butterflies.
2,096-word summary · 9 min read
Something in the Water
Honeymoon divers find a bag of cash and diamonds at sea, then lie until lies cost more.
1,943-word summary · 9 min read