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A collection of short stories about love gone horribly wrong, featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Parker Pryne, Harley Quin, and Tommy and Tuppence, that will get your heart racing.

Phillipa and Judy find themselves embroiled in a mystery when a classmate dies. As they follow clues and wrestle with their feelings for each other, they learn that the killer is closer to them than they imagined.

Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are approached by the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective, a man who still maintains he never committed the murders. Could Decker have made a mistake? He digs into the old case and finds a startling connection to a new crime he may be able to prevent, if only he can put the pieces together quickly enough.

For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's War on Drugs. Elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, he finds that in destroying one monster, he has created thirty more.

Amos Decker's football career was ended by a violent collision. Now a detective, he is haunted by a side effect from the injury--he remembers everything. One night Decker comes home to find his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law murdered. When a man turns himself in a year later, Decker seizes his chance to learn what really happened. And the truth will stun him.

Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who's made her life a nightmare for the past year--desperate enough to run to her hometown. Her recent inheritance of her grandmother's house offers sanctuary, but she has no idea just how close to home her fears still are. 

When Detective Lucie Henebelle's friend goes blind after watching an extremely rare and violent film, Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of it, especially when nearly everyone who comes into contact with the film turns up dead.

FBI agent Genna Snow's successful career cannot fully erase the heartache of a shattered childhood. After breaking the silence surrounding the abusive acts of a summer camp counselor, young Genna was abandoned by her family even as justice was being served in the courtroom. Years later, Genna was forced to relive the pain of abandonment when the man she loved, special agent John Mancini, walked out of her life without explanation. Now, having returned from his own private hell, John is determined to win Genna back.

Bridey Kelly has come to the holiday home of Agatha Christie to care for children evacuated from the Blitz. When a body washes ashore, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing.

Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all as a corporate attorney with an Ivy League law degree. But everything changes one morning when she arrives in the executive suite and finds her boss with a gunshot to his head.