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Meet the women of Buckhead--a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Who amongst them will be clever enough to survive, and who will wind up dead?

Ellie, an NYU grad student, is eager for the perfect weekend away with her boyfriend Steven, a wealthy and privileged professor at Barnard College. When they head out for their romantic break, they're both excited to get to know each other better away from prying eyes. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, they begin to realize that neither of them is quite who they say they are, and that one of them won't escape the weekend alive.

In this mother and daughter story, one is running from a horrible truth and the other fighting to reveal it. And the first rule is: Make them like you. Second rule: Make them need you. Third rule: Make them pay.

Private eye and WWII veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case involving Hollywood and mob-ridden Las Vegas.

In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered abandoned on the beach, they take matters into their own hands.

Lorraine, "Rainy," lives a secluded life hiding from the disturbing past she wants to forget. If she's allowed to. During a weekend in Vegas her friend disappears, but Rainy knows who they're really after.

The search for a ruthless hit man turns into a deadly alpine chase. Tracking leads in her sister's disappearance could make a K-9 handler the next victim. Finding a missing girl depends on a K-9 and his handler.

After witnessing a congresswoman's murder, wildlife photographer and mother-to-be Jamie London is forced into the protective custody of K-9 cop Ben Sawyer and police dog Shadow. Ben's Wyoming cattle ranch is the perfect place to hide and wait for the trial to start, until they're tracked down by the assassin.

Six years after his wife, Brie, vanished, Andy has finally put his life back together. But when a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her appears at his old address, old questions, and dark suspicions, resurface.

It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline phone rings. The caller says just one word: "Geiger." Agneta hangs up, finds her old pistol, kills her husband of fifty years and then disappears from their home without a trace. Sara Nowak, a police officer in the prostitution unit, is called by a colleague who is investigating the murder. Against regulations, Sara gets involved in the investigation.