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It is 1997, and in a basement flat in Hackney, Isla Green is awakened by a call in the middle of the night: her father phoning from Sydney. Thirty years ago, the Greens' next-door neighbor Mandy disappeared. Isla's father Joe was allegedly the last person to see her alive, and now he's under suspicion of murder. Could her father be capable of doing something terrible?

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.

Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she is forced to turn her gun on her partner, a decorated FBI agent who suddenly turns inexplicably violent. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core, but what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself but the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent's body. Soon she is on the trail of a mysterious figure named John Silence, a mystery man who may be involved.

When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force. Caught between two complicated and determined women, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets, and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.

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.

The lives of five very different women are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though not all of them know that yet. The careful existence they have built for themselves starts to crumble when two murders rock their neighborhood.

Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy makes a shocking discovery that connects a crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.

Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.