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A girl vanishes from an Adirondack summer camp, and the investigation ripples through the camp's wealthy families and the locals who serve them.
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The Last House Guest
In Littleport, a Maine resort town, Avery Greer, a local who manages the rental houses of the wealthy Loman family, is left under suspicion after their daughter Sadie, her best friend, is found dead the night of the end-of-summer party.
Long Bright River
Mickey, a Philadelphia police officer, patrols Kensington, the neighbourhood where her sister Kacey lives as an addict, and when Kacey goes missing during a string of murders, Mickey goes looking for her.
A Fatal Inversion
In the hot summer of 1976 a group of young people drifted through months at Wyvis Hall, a Suffolk country house one of them had inherited. Ten years later the bones of a woman and a child are dug up in its pet cemetery.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
In 1913 Laura Lyons lives in an apartment inside the New York Public Library, where her husband is superintendent, and is drawn into a club of radical women. In 1993 her granddaughter Sadie, a curator there, faces a run of thefts of rare books.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
Heartwood
Valerie Gillis, a forty-two-year-old hiker known on the trail as Sparrow, disappears on a dangerous stretch of the Appalachian Trail in Maine, and Lieutenant Beverly Miller of the Maine Warden Service leads the search, while an old woman in a care home follows it online.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Sylvie Lee flies from New York to the Netherlands to see her dying grandmother, who raised her, and vanishes. Her younger sister Amy, who has never travelled, goes after her.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
The Quiet Tenant
A small-town widower who has kept a woman chained in his shed for five years moves his daughter and his prisoner into a new house together, and the prisoner starts to look for a way out.
The Perfect Couple
On the morning of a lavish Nantucket wedding, the maid of honour is found dead in the harbour, and as the police chief questions the bride, the groom, his wealthy family and their guests, each turns out to be hiding something.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.