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Stuck in a bar at Heathrow, Ted Severson drunkenly tells a beautiful stranger named Lily that his wife is cheating on him and that he would like to kill her, and Lily, quite calmly, offers to help.
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The Woman in the Window
An agoraphobic Manhattan psychologist watches her new neighbours across the street through a camera lens and is certain she just saw the wife being murdered.
The Housemaid
Millie, fresh out of prison and desperate for work, takes a live-in job cleaning for the wealthy Winchesters on Long Island, whose lady of the house is impossible to please, and is told that her room in the attic locks from the outside.
Dear Debbie
Debbie Mullen, a New England advice columnist with a genius IQ and little patience, loses her job on the same bad day that her daughter is dropped from the soccer team and her neighbour accuses her of sabotage, and she decides the people who have wronged her should pay.
Confessions
On her last day of teaching, middle-school teacher Yuko Moriguchi tells her class that her four-year-old daughter's death at the school pool was no accident, that two of the students in the room killed her, and that she has already taken her revenge.
Who Is Maud Dixon?
Florence Darrow, a young publishing assistant desperate to be a writer, lands a job working for Maud Dixon, the anonymous author of a bestselling debut, and follows her to Morocco to research the next novel, where things go badly wrong.
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.
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.
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.
Down River
Adam Chase, acquitted of murder five years ago but cast out by his family, comes home to Rowan County, North Carolina, when an old friend asks for help, and bodies start turning up.
Woman Down
Suspense novelist Petra Rose, broke and blocked after a viral backlash over the film of her last book, retreats to a secluded lakeside cabin to write, and when Detective Nathaniel Saint arrives with disturbing news, she finds him a little too inspiring.
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.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley, a charming, rootless young American, is paid to travel to Italy and bring home a rich man's son, Dickie Greenleaf, but becomes fixated on Dickie and the life he leads.