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Camille Preaker, a troubled reporter, is sent back to her small Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two girls, and has to stay in her mother's house to do it.
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Dark Places
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered on their Kansas farm and her testimony sent her brother Ben to prison, and twenty-five years later, broke, she agrees to revisit the case for a club of true-crime obsessives.
Gone Girl
A wife disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, and the investigation reveals that both partners are capable of monstrous deception.
Strangers on a Train
Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
A Simple Plan
Two brothers and a friend stumble on a crashed plane full of cash in a snowy Minnesota field, and the decision to keep it destroys all of them.
Psycho
Mary Crane, on the run with money stolen from her boss, stops for the night at an out-of-the-way motel run by Norman Bates, a lonely man who lives with his domineering mother in the house above.
The Woman in Cabin 10
Travel journalist Lo Blacklock, shaken by a break-in at home, joins the maiden voyage of a small luxury cruise ship in the North Sea, and in the night she hears a woman go overboard from the cabin next door, though no one is missing.
The Ice House
A body is found rotting in the ice house at Streech Grange, where Phoebe Maybury's husband went missing ten years ago, and the village, which never forgave Phoebe or the two women who live with her, waits for the police to finish what they started.
Verity
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is hired to finish the bestselling series of Verity Crawford, who was badly injured in an accident, and while sorting papers in the family's Vermont house she finds Verity's unfinished autobiography, full of confessions no one was meant to read.
The Turnout
Dara and Marie Durant run the ballet school their mother left them, with Dara's husband, a former student, but when a fire forces them to hire a contractor named Derek, the life they have kept closed off starts to come apart.
You Will Know Me
Devon Knox, fifteen, is a gymnastics prodigy whose family has given everything to her Olympic dream, and when a young man connected to her gym dies in a hit-and-run, her mother, Katie, begins to see how little she knows about any of them.
Bluebird, Bluebird
Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger on suspension, drives up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman have both been found dead in the bayou.