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
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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