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Nikki Quinn is devastated when her best friend Barbara is knocked down and killed by a hit-and-run driver who claims diplomatic immunity. But Nikki has her work and her lover, fellow lawyer Jack Nolan, to keep her going, whereas Barbara's mother, Myra, has nothing. Festering in a sea of recriminations and hatred, unable to gain a sense of perspective, Myra is lost...until one day she switches on the evening news and sees Marie Lewellen, mother of...

Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.

Pierce Quincy, a P.I. and former FBI profiler, is very concerned when he finds the abandoned car of his partner and former lover, Rainie Connor. Especially when she had disappeared and blood stains covered the driver's seat of the car. Rainie had been working on a case involving a foster child, trying to discern if the child had been abused, or was in fact, the abuser. But now the boy had vanished too. With many questions to be answered, Pierce began...

"Five years ago, Myra Rutledge's pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver--the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. In an outright travesty of justice, the remorseless murderer was free to return to his lavish lifestyle with no fear of ever having to pay for his crime. But not for much longer. Myra and six of her lifelong friends have convened to devise a plan for long-awaited, justly deserved, and very sweet revenge..."...

Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.

Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters--until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves. They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still their lives would never be the same. Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned...

Documentary filmmaker Evan Casher's life comes crashing down when his mother is brutally murdered and he narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life, only to learn from the enigmatic mercenary who saved him that Evan's entire life has been little more than a carefully constructed lie.

Diane Mayfield, a correspondent for the television news magazine "Hourglass," reluctantly travels to Ocean Grove on the New Jersey shore to interview Leslie Patterson, a troubled young woman who is widely believed to have faked her own kidnapping, but the story gets interesting when a second victim disappears, only to be found dead days later.

Kate Burkholder, the new chief of police in the small community of Painters Mill, Ohio, investigates the brutal murder of an Amish family of seven. When she discovers a diary, she realizes a haunting personal connection to the case and swears she will track down the killer and bring him to justice, even if it means risking her life.