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Vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles, Detective Philip Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases while struggling through his confounding relationship with his father.

When Harriet Wermer arrives on Marble Island she discovers a mystery. One that seems to involve her Dad, back when he was a young boy living on Marble Island. One that Harriet is absolutely going to solve.

As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at Southern Oregon University. The unveiling of the Bard's lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, will be celebrated, but just before the manuscript makes its appearance, rumors swirl that it's missing, and the security guard tasked with keeping the priceless artifact safe has been murdered.

In a deserted tenement in an occupied city, two dead bodies lie on a dusty floor as if they have fallen out of the air. One corpse is cut in half, the other is utterly unmarked. One is human, the other isn't. The city of Ambergris is half ruined, rotten, its population controlled by narcotics, internment camps, and acts of terror. But its new masters want this case closed, urgently. Detective John Finch has just one week to solve it or be sent to the camps.

It's 1959 and a new killer dubbed The Florist haunts the streets of London. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance, and second year Marion Lane is assigned the case.

Rachel Innes, a middle-aged spinster, has barely settled in at the country house she has rented for the summer when a series of bizarre and violent events threaten to perturb her normally unflappable nature. Before this spine-tingling tale ends, five connected deaths shatter the normally placid atmosphere of the vacation retreat.

At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. Yet the fallout from Brexit and a tumultuous US election prove to be the least of Queen Elizabeth II's worries when a staff member is found dead.

When Jennifer Smiley's grandmother leaves her an old farmhouse, she can't pass up the chance for a new start. But she soon learns there is a lot to uncover in Ross County, and more than one secret better left buried.

When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found, her half-sister Lena Scott becomes determined to find justice, even if it means untangling her family's darkest secrets, or ending up dead herself.

Nine strangers, including FBI Agent Jessica Winslow, receive a cryptic list with their names on it. There seems to be no connection between the people, until they begin to die in unusual circumstances.