Рианнон кажется самой обычной женщиной: у нее есть парень, который ей изменяет, непризнанная работа и любимая собачка. Она составляет списки тех, кого хотела бы убить, от грубого кассира в супермаркете до водителя, который ее подрезал, от соседки-клептоманки до начальницы, называющей ее дорогушей. Иногда она переходит к действиям; никто не заподозрит тихую секретаршу, которая однажды обезвредила и обесчленила напавшего на нее человека.

Set in contemporary Kolkata, the novel follows three interlinked lives after a deadly incident on a commuter train: an impoverished Muslim gym instructor whose impulsive social-media comment is spun into a terrorism charge; an ambitious young woman from the margins who sacrifices everything for a shot at stardom; and a self-serving political operator who exploits the scandal to advance his career. As courtrooms, news cycles, and rumor take over, the story exposes how hunger, ambition, and rising nationalism warp justice and destroy relationships.

Set in 1960s Chicago, this vividly illustrated coming-of-age tale is narrated by a ten-year-old who documents her life in a monster-filled sketchbook as she investigates the suspicious death of an elderly Jewish neighbor, unraveling hidden family histories, neighborhood violence, and questions of identity, grief, and otherness through a mix of childlike noir forensics, graphic imagery, and intimate memoir.

Sent to rural Florida for the summer to live with his grandparents and his sixteen-year-old aunt Delia, twelve-year-old Travis becomes absorbed in the closed ways of small-town life. He is captivated by Delia as she tries to find a place in the gossip-driven town. Her secrets are beyond his understanding, but he believes he alone can save her, a conviction that forces him to grow up fast and leads to a dangerous, disturbing climax.

In Leningrad in 1968, Alexander Karpenko is, from an early age, clearly destined to lead his countrymen. After his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother flee and must choose at the docks between a container ship to America or to Great Britain. A coin toss decides his future. Spanning two continents and thirty years, the story follows his triumphs and defeats as an immigrant who ultimately faces the past he left behind in Russia.

A New York editor Maris Matherly-Reed receives a partial manuscript from an anonymous writer traced to a Georgia island and travels to meet him. She meets Parker Evans, a wheelchair-bound man who hides his past, and coaxes from him a tale about a boat trip that leaves only one person returning. Troubled by her attraction to Parker and doubts about her marriage, Maris returns home when new chapters suggest the tale is real and pursues a truth tied to a crime and vengeful man.

After actress Natalie Raines is found dying from a gunshot, police suspect her agent and soon to be ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. Two years later a criminal says Aldrich tried to hire him to kill Natalie, and assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace takes the case. She gives a seemingly well meaning neighbor a key to care for her dog, unaware of his violent past. The trial draws headlines and eerie sentiments haunt Emily after the jury decides Aldrich's fate, putting her transplanted heart and life at risk.

When three children discover a shallow grave in 1984, a California community is shaken. The victim is a young woman with her eyes and lips sealed, the third in two years, and the FBI identifies a serial killer called the See-No-Evil killer. Agent Tony Mendez focuses on Dr. Peter Crane, a respected volunteer and father of one of the children. Tommy's teacher, Anne Navarre, is asked to probe tangled connections between two families and a revelation of evil so deep no one may survive.

Marissa Fordham is dead. Her daughter is found at the crime scene, injured but alive. Sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez and child advocate Anne Leone begin to peel back layers of Marissa’s life, and the shocking truth they uncover puts them directly in the sights of a killer desperate to protect a stunning secret. Marissa Fordham never existed.

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.