The Perfect Marriage
A defense lawyer defends her husband accused of killing his mistress.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: mystery
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The Lost Symbol
Langdon races through Washington to save Solomon from a tattooed killer seeking an ancient Masonic secret.
2,145-word summary · 10 min read
The Husband's Secret
Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.
1,985-word summary · 9 min read
The Couple Next Door
After a dinner next door, Anne and Marco find baby Cora gone and every neighbor has a motive.
2,053-word summary · 9 min read
Remarkably Bright Creatures
A widowed night janitor, a lost young man, and a grumpy octopus circle the same old loss in a small seaside town.
2,012-word summary · 9 min read
Rebecca
A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca.
2,008-word summary · 9 min read
Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.
2,004-word summary · 9 min read
Hush, Hush
Nora Grey's new biology partner Patch is gorgeous, infuriating, and hiding wings he was never meant to keep.
2,137-word summary · 9 min read
Hopeless
Homeschooled Sky starts public school and falls for Holder, whose past links to hers in painful ways.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
Dark Places
Libby Day, sole survivor of family murders, is paid to rethink her testimony.
1,910-word summary · 8 min read
We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
1,923-word summary · 9 min read
Thirteen Reasons Why
Clay Jensen gets tapes from Hannah Baker naming thirteen reasons for her death, and must walk town listening through one long night.
2,278-word summary · 10 min read
The Last Thing He Told Me
Hannah Hall gets a note saying Protect her, then her husband vanishes and she must team with his teen daughter to find why.
2,951-word summary · 13 min read
The Inheritance Games
Avery Grambs inherits billions from a stranger and must live a year in Hawthorne House.
3,286-word summary · 15 min read
The Housemaid's Secret
Millie takes a job for the Garricks and hears strange crying behind doors.
3,260-word summary · 14 min read
The Guest List
A storm traps Jules and Will's luxury wedding on remote Cormorant Island off Ireland, where secrets among Hannah, Olivia, Johnno and Aoife turn celebration…
2,380-word summary · 11 min read
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Lisbeth Salander is framed for murder while Blomkvist digs into trafficking and her past.
3,101-word summary · 14 min read
Sharp Objects
Reporter Camille Preaker returns to Wind Gap to cover two murdered girls, facing her cold mother Adora, wild sister Amma, and scars that spell her past. Full…
2,434-word summary · 11 min read
One of Us Is Lying
Five Bayview teens enter detention and Simon dies, leaving Bronwyn Nate Addy and Cooper suspects.
3,158-word summary · 14 min read
Never Lie
Newlyweds snowed in at a missing psychiatrist's house find tapes of patients.
3,849-word summary · 17 min read
Big Little Lies
In Pirriwee three mothers collide over school, marriage, and secrets until a trivia night death forces the truth about Perry abuse, Celeste fear, and Jane past.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
Verity
Colleen Hoover's Verity explained: Lowen, injured Verity Crawford, the hidden autobiography, and the letter that flips everything.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient retold: Alicia's silence, Theo's obsession, the Alcestis clue, and the final flip.
2,412-word summary · 11 min read