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Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients' genetic puzzles, while hers remain shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents' identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who's hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth, Amelia is blindsided by a deadly one.

A year after a brutal home invasion that left her traumatized, Cecelia, along with her husband and their three-year-old daughter, move into a new house with a complex security system that is supposed to make her feel safe. But reality proves different as strange things begin to happen at home and the security system reveals that the house had a prior occupant: Lydia. On her quest to discover the fate of the mysterious Lydia, Cecelia realizes that that no one's secrets are safe, including her own.

Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why? To find the answer, she's going undercover into the shelter as a brutalized woman. Though Nina is playing a victim, she's anything but. Yet this isn't her only secret.

Even as Lizzie Kitsakis is realizing that her marriage is in trouble, she is working late at the law firm when she gets a call from an old friend asking for help. Zach Grayson says his wife, Amanda, has been found dead in their home, and Zach is the primary suspect. As Lizzie investigates, she learns that Zach and Amanda weren't what they seemed. She is left wondering not only whether her own marriage can be saved but what it means to have a good marriage in the first place.

A newly married woman finds her life turned upside down when her husband goes missing.

Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But she soon faces charges of theft, embezzlement, and a brutal double murder.

Ally Linden's boss seems surprised to see her, because she hasn't worked there in five years. When Ally learns that she's experienced a dissociative fugue state, she tries to think of triggers and remembers that she'd been seeing a therapist about a traumatic event from her childhood, in which she came across evidence for a murder that was never solved.

Sadie and Will Foust have traded bustling Chicago for small-town Maine. Their new neighbor, Morgan Baines, is found murdered in her home. All eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town.

One woman's life is turned upside down when her brother brings his new girlfriend to visit, but no one is telling the truth about who they are.

Bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on his old list.