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Things haven’t been great for Finlay Donovan lately. Her nanny and partner-in-crime just got arrested for theft and extradited to Maryland. Vero swears she didn’t steal her former sorority’s treasury funds—even if she was treasurer when it went missing, had the opportunity to do it, and her alibi is a date who then ghosted her. 

Finlay refuses to let her best friend get convicted of a crime she didn’t commit. But to prove her innocence, Finlay has to find the real thief first.

Rachel Holohan was supposed to marry the son of a local big shot in a small Irish village. Instead, she went missing and was found dead. Her death raises generations-old grudges and resentments, sparking a power struggle. 

Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper finds himself torn between loyalties. His friends want his help; his fiancé doesn’t want anything to do with the feud. 

But as the violence escalates, he stumbles on a scheme that might reveal more about Rachel’s death. Even worse, this buried truth might put both Cal and his fiancé directly into the line of fire.

Beverley, Elise, and Margot became friends after their husbands were all discovered to be serial killers. Now that their exes are either dead or in prison, they’re trying to move on with their lives. Too bad the world doesn’t want to let them. 

But when a string of new murders hit the news, the women band together to prove the world wrong. After all, who better to catch a killer than the women who shared their lives with one?

Cordelia West has no intention of returning to her tiny hometown of Sarsaparilla Falls. But when her great-aunt dies and leaves her the Chickadee Motel, she has to do exactly that. Cordelia can’t sell the motel until all of the residents leave or pass away. 

Only, when she gets there, she discovers that the motel is a brothel and the women running it have nowhere else to go. When the town’s pastor and most vocal opponent of the brothel is found dead in one of the madam’s beds, all of their futures are in jeopardy. 

Cordelia never wanted to come back home, but she’ll be damned if she’s forced to leave before she’s ready. And to do that, she has to find the killer.

Union Springs, Alabama, may only have a population numbering a little over 3,000, but that doesn’t mean the respect Judge Mary Stone garners isn’t deserved. In addition to presiding over her courtroom, she also runs her family farm. 

But when the most controversial case in the history of the South enters her jurisdiction, Judge Stone finds herself balancing an ethical landmine with nothing less than life or death on the line. 

No decision can satisfy everyone, but only one can bring justice to the town and its people.

Nellie Thorne has disappeared. And she’s not the first. Over the last fifty years, five Nellie Thorne’s have vanished. 

It’s not the case Jane Pye and Simon thought they’d get when they signed up for a private detective night class. And for good reason. They quickly discover they’re in way over their heads. 

But what they lack in experience, they make up for in enthusiasm. And they intend on solving the case that has baffled detectives for decades.

Emma Sharp was raised by a famous doomsday prepper. The one thing she knows how to do is stay alive—even if she doesn’t want to. 

But when she meets Logan Grant, she realizes that letting him control every aspect of her life might be the only thing keeping her from falling apart. Then she meets Taylor. 

And her plans change. The two women make a plan. Take Logan on a hike in the Hundred Mile Wilderness, a stretch of the Appalachian Trail known for its difficulty. 

All of them have secrets. All of them are lying. Only one of them is willing to do whatever it takes to survive.

When Ana breaks up with her boyfriend, she does the only reasonable thing: she throws a girls' brunch. 

But instead of celebrating, the gathering takes a dark turn when shocking news about Paul and his new girlfriend comes out. As the angry ex with a less-than-stellar reputation, Ana is the primary suspect. Ana has secrets she doesn’t want coming out. 

And she knows she didn’t kill him. Together with her sister, they set out to find the truth. After all, she isn’t the only one who wanted him dead. She just has to prove it.

When Ernest Cunningham went to the bank, the last thing he expected was to be taken hostage. It might not be a murder, but it can’t be that difficult to solve a heist. 

The doors are locked, and there are only ten people inside, so when someone is killed, Ernest knows that one of them is a murderer. But as he probes, he realizes more than one person was planning on stealing something from the bank. 

To solve the murder, Ernest has to figure out who wanted to steal what and why. Because one of them was willing to kill for their prize.

After a horrifying end to her television career, news reporter Minnow Greenwood is forced to help her brother with the family's shark-fishing business in the small town of Kangaroo Bay. It’s not ideal, but something is alluring about the work that appeals to her. 

Until she finds a body. It turns out, there has been a steady number of missing persons in the area for over forty years. Solving the case would do wonders for her career, and it would potentially answer the question of where her father went ten years prior. 

But as she digs deeper and another body washes ashore, Minnow realizes that someone will do anything to keep their secret buried, including murder.