Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.

A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, his victims drawn from among the the women who answer his personal ads in New York's trendy weekly magazines.

"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--

Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

Lucy Stone, a local reporter in Tinker's Cove, Maine, is at a Mother's Day brunch with her family when she witnesses a nasty spat between Barbara Hume and Tina Nowak, but when Tina is shot to death on the public tennis courts right in front of Lucy, her editor takes charge of the story, leaving Lucy to conduct her own investigation behind the scenes and putting herself in the killer's sights.

Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.

"When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all"--

The past comes back to haunt three men who shared a friendship as children when Sean Devine, now a policeman, is assigned to investigate the murder of Jimmy Marcus's teenager daughter, a crime the third member of their group, Dave Boyle, is suspected of committing.

Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend after becoming obsessed and delusional over a novel, but on the anniversary of their friend's death a discovery pulls them back together to find out what actually happened that night.