A financially struggling married couple starts filming themselves for a podcast when a gunshot rings out and they find their next-door neighbor is murdered. To find the killer, they invite the other residents over to probe for clues over cocktails. It gets more complicated when another body is found. No one is safe, and no one can be trusted as they try to unravel the mystery.

"A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth ... Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected business associates. Myron made peace and moved on--until now, when two federal agents...

NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.

"The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What's more, the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes...

When we were called to the home of a banker who'd taken his own life, little did I suspect this would lead to an actual case. But then the banker's daughter asked Odelia to investigate, convinced her father had been murdered. And so we set out to prove the impossible. The police were satisfied with a verdict of suicide, and we had nothing to go on except the girl's plea. Meanwhile Dooley had his own theories about the case, and then there was his...

"When the manager of Marysburg Music, Darcy Gaughan, returns to work after a vacation, she expects to jump right back, into work as the store gets ready for the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations. She's also celebrating five years of sobriety and is confident that there are good things in her future. She doesn't expect to find her boss in his office, dead from an apparent self-inflicted stab wound."--Page 4 of cover

"Jazz's best friend, Annika, has been kidnapped. She can't call the cops, so she forges a truce with her nemesis, Phoenix. In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 hours to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die"--Page [4] of cover.

Ideally reporters aren't supposed to take on paying clients. It's against the reporter's code - if there is such a thing as a reporter's code. I may be thinking of doctors. At any rate, when Joshua Curtis showed up in Odelia's office, asking her to catch a person in the act of being unfaithful, it's only understandable that my human balked at the request. But then she took comfort in the fact that a juicy article might come out of this, and so she...