Career of Evil
A severed leg delivered to Robin forces Strike to face four men from his past as a London killer stalks, testing the agency and her wedding plans ahead.
2,887-word summary · 13 min read
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All the Missing Girls
Told backwards over fifteen days, a woman probes two disappearances ten years apart in her hometown.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read
The Risk
Quiet Lana hunts past attackers by night while falling for Logan Bennett, the FBI agent tracking her.
2,360-word summary · 10 min read
The Last Flight
Two women swap boarding passes to flee husbands and pasts; one plane falls.
2,130-word summary · 9 min read
The Dry
Falk returns to drought-hit Kiewarra for Luke's murder-suicide, and an old secret about Ellie's drowning resurfaces to change the case.
2,100-word summary · 9 min read
The Dead Zone
Coma waker Johnny sees futures in touch and faces demagogue Stillson.
2,132-word summary · 9 min read
Sometimes I Lie
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
2,399-word summary · 11 min read
Postmortem
Four Richmond stranglings pull chief examiner Scarpetta into forensics, leaks, and sabotage from inside.
2,422-word summary · 11 min read
One of Us Is Next
A year after Simon's death, a copycat texter drags Maeve, Knox and Phoebe into a cruel Truth or Dare game in Bayview.
2,348-word summary · 10 min read
Luckiest Girl Alive
Ani FaNelli reinvents herself as a glossy New Yorker, but a documentary about her Bradley past threatens to expose everything.
2,222-word summary · 10 min read
Lock Every Door
Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.
2,224-word summary · 10 min read
Left Behind
Pilot, journalist, pastor, and student wake after millions vanish in Rapture.
2,050-word summary · 9 min read
Home Before Dark
Maggie renovates haunted Baneberry Hall her father made famous.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read
Firestarter
Fugitive dad and fire starting daughter run from the Shop that made them.
2,275-word summary · 10 min read
Ward D
A med student hides her own psych past while working a locked night shift where meds vanish and doors open.
2,042-word summary · 9 min read
The Night She Disappeared
Two teen moms vanish one night, and two years later a writer finds notes in the woods.
1,993-word summary · 9 min read
The It Girl
Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
The Good Girl
Taken from a bar, Mia vanishes into a snowy cabin winter while police read absences.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read
The Andromeda Strain
A town dies in seconds, and a sealed lab team races a germ that learns to eat seals.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
Recursion
False pasts feel truer than true ones as a memory chair lets the grieving rewrite deaths.
1,995-word summary · 9 min read
All Good People Here
A journalist returns home to care for her uncle and reopens a 20 year old child murder tied to a new abduction.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
Under the Dome
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
2,731-word summary · 12 min read
The Wife Upstairs
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
3,255-word summary · 14 min read