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Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

The final chapter of the Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney mystery series sees the Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield return to the grid, forcing the detectives to confront his new‑age, suicidal clientele.

When a middle‑aged spinster abandons her city life for a summer home in the Adirondacks, she becomes tangled in a murder investigation carried out by town detectives.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case. It was discovered after her death that the victim had been working as a high-class prostitute, and the police are content to assume she was killed by a client, common in such a dangerous line of work. Yet as Till digs deeper, he realizes that the victim is just one of several young female escorts killed in different cities in the exact same way--all had strawberry blonde hair, and all were shot with a 9mm handgun in the sanctity of their apartments. Till must find his way around the tawdry and secretive online escort business, and decode ads placed by young women who all use false names, sometimes advertise using other women's pictures, and move from city to city every few months. Yet when Till is finally able to catch up with the killer, he finds that the man he's after is far more dangerous and volatile than he ever could have imagined. As the body count rises, Till must risk his life to find this seductive and ruthless killer whose murderous spree masks a far deadlier agenda.

Four-year-old missing child found in grave 20 years later sparks a mystery in small Ohio town.

Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton investigates a mutilated murder in remote Shetland and uncovers an ancient legend that turns her life into a lethal game.

Benjamin Thorpe, a Los Angeles architect, slips into New York’s underbelly in search of companionship, becoming entangled in a prostitution murder that forces a detective team to investigate his possible involvement.

Kellen Adams, scarred and amnesiac, takes a job at a North Pacific resort where a murder forces her to confront her past and the guests who may be killers.

A British actress in New York is hired as a decoy by divorce lawyers to entrap a suspected serial murderer. When police ask her to lure the suspect into a confession, the line between undercover and prey blurs, threatening her life.

Equine therapist Taylor Dawson teams with Baltimore PI Clay Maynard to solve a young mother’s murder, uncovering a dark family secret that turns her into a target of real evil.