As Good As Dead
Pip faces online threats and a stalker as she investigates a serial case in the trilogy finale.
2,962-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: mystery
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Along Came a Spider
Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.
2,523-word summary · 11 min read
A Study in Scarlet
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
A Flicker in the Dark
Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.
3,074-word summary · 14 min read
Watchmen
A full retelling of Alan Moore's Watchmen: a retired hero's death in 1985 America sparks a sprawling plot with an exiled god and a shocking bid for peace, from…
2,762-word summary · 12 min read
Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes lives with intrusive thoughts while chasing a missing billionaire with Daisy.
2,007-word summary · 9 min read
The Thursday Murder Club
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must work with police…
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
2,286-word summary · 10 min read
The Paris Apartment
Jess finds her brother missing in Paris where every neighbor hides something.
2,040-word summary · 9 min read
The Maid
Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead guest and must use her eye for detail to clear herself.
2,031-word summary · 9 min read
The Inmate
A nurse takes a prison job and faces the ex who she helped convict for murder years ago.
2,060-word summary · 9 min read
The Cuckoo's Calling
Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Bad Beginning
After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune.
2,759-word summary · 12 min read
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich's One for the Money fully retold: Stephanie Plum's first bounty hunt, Morelli on a murder charge, Ranger, Lula, Ramirez, and why Trenton still…
2,339-word summary · 10 min read
Local Woman Missing
Two women vanish from one street. Eleven years later, a missing girl returns with no memory.
2,581-word summary · 11 min read
Layla
Leeds brings Layla back to the bed-and-breakfast where they met after a shooting changes her, then a new guest named Willow blurs every line he trusted.
2,211-word summary · 10 min read
Inferno
Dan Brown's Inferno retold: Robert Langdon wakes in Florence with lost memory, follows Dante's clues with Sienna Brooks from Palazzo Vecchio to Venice and…
2,395-word summary · 11 min read
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Pip swears off sleuthing, then podcasts a missing friend case that tests fame and cost.
2,011-word summary · 9 min read
Everything I Never Told You
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race, school and duty that…
2,711-word summary · 12 min read
Dead Until Dark
Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, falls for vampire Bill Compton as local murders close in.
2,751-word summary · 12 min read
Then She Was Gone
Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.
1,956-word summary · 9 min read
The Woman in the Window
Agoraphobic Anna Fox thinks she sees a murder across the street in Harlem.
2,026-word summary · 9 min read
The Woman in Cabin 10
Journalist Lo sees a body thrown from a luxury cabin, then learns no passenger is missing.
2,002-word summary · 9 min read
The Shadow of the Wind
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
2,000-word summary · 9 min read