Four years after her sixteen-year-old daughter disappeared, Lauren Lawton is the only one still chasing the ghosts of their Santa Barbara life. She believes she knows who took her daughter but has no evidence. Her husband killed himself and the suspect still stalks the family. They move to Oak Knoll, but the suspect turns up there as Leah nears sixteen. Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and his team begin to close in on an increasingly disturbing case that poses a stunning question.

Three people have been killed: one pushed to her death, one who suffered a fatal overdose, and one shot in the heart. The victims are people labeled as obstacles and deserving of death. Cissy Cahill's family is unraveling as members die and she begins to feel watched. She hears footsteps, smells a woman's perfume, notices small personal items missing, and must uncover a shocking family secret rooted in the past before more blood is shed.

A serial killer stalks New Orleans, leaving victims tattooed with a series of numbers. The only lead points to a crumbling asylum, Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, and to Eve Renner, who grew up exploring its secret chambers as the daughter of one of its doctors. As new bodies appear, Eve races to assemble a deadly puzzle while a killer watches and lures her back to the ruins where past betrayals may be revealed.

A prank at Camp Horseshoe one summer intended to scare a fellow counselor left two girls missing and one presumed drowned. Two decades later, detective Lucas Dalton, whose father ran the camp and who worked there that summer, investigates human remains found in a cavern and has jeopardized his career by removing evidence. Five former counselors return, each with secrets, and start receiving notes bearing a personal memento and the message You will pay, then murders begin.

The Cahills are a wealthy San Francisco family with twisted secrets. Marla Cahill wakes from a coma after a highway crash with no memory and a reconstructed face while another woman died. Her family calls her Marla, but they are strangers as she recuperates in an isolated mansion and grows increasingly certain she is not who they say and that her life is in danger.

Sisters Cassie and Allie leave Oregon to pursue acting in Los Angeles, but Allie becomes a star while Cassie remains stuck in bit parts. When Allie's body double is shot and Allie goes missing, police trace a last call to Cassie though she has no memory of placing it, and she is confined to a Portland psych ward amid public suspicion. Cassie checks out to find Allie, but macabre murders that mimic her family make her doubt everyone and herself.

A Harvard symbologist awakens in a Florentine hospital with no memory and finds himself thrust into a frantic international chase after a reclusive scientist obsessed with Dante, following a trail of art, architecture and cryptic puzzles drawn from the Divine Comedy; aided by a young physician, he races through Florence, Venice and Istanbul to decipher clues and stop a plot to release a bioengineered agent intended to address catastrophic population growth, all while confronting fraught ethical questions about sacrifice, security and the value of human life.

A searing, epistolary account in which a mother writes to her estranged husband to trace their son’s life from infancy to the moment he orchestrates a school massacre, examining her ambivalence toward motherhood, the unraveling of family life, and the wrenching questions of nature versus nurture, responsibility, and the social consequences of violence.