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
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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
The Paris Apartment
Jess finds her brother missing in Paris where every neighbor hides something.
2,040-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
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
Haunting Adeline
A writer in a gothic manor is stalked by Zade while reading her great grandmother's diary.
2,090-word summary · 9 min read
Dark Matter
Abducted from his Chicago family, Jason Dessen wakes in a life he never chose and fights through worlds to return.
2,707-word summary · 12 min read
11/22/63
A Maine teacher steps through a diner portal to 1958 to stop the Kennedy assassination, and learns the past resists change while a new life pulls him in.
2,799-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 Perfect Marriage
A defense lawyer defends her husband accused of killing his mistress.
2,084-word summary · 9 min read