Mila begins with the story of her parents passed away when she was a kid but she thinks her story should starts with her journey from the Mexican desert, far away from her country, Belarus. She and her best friend, Anja together with other five girls were promised a decent…
The story begins with a prologue which involves a girl called Alice, taking a test in school but got distracted by her classmate, Elijah. Everyone seems giving her a cold shoulder except Elijah. He earns her trust and she follows him back home to see his Science project. From kitty…
The Adventure of the Western Star Poirot receives a visit from Miss Mary Marvell, the famous American film star on her visit to London. She has received three letters, handed to her by a Chinese man, which warn her to return her fabulous diamond jewel, the "Western Star"…
In this story, a brutal murder occurs involving two nuns in a Catholic convent. Rizzoli and Isles are called to the crime scenes. The murdered nun, a young woman about to make her final vows, hid untold secrets from the rest of the aging convent. Another dead body turns up…
Brennan returns to Montreal to solve a case which relates to biker gang war. At a biker clubhouse, the excavation reveals the bones of a young girl from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Before this, nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. Brennan has herself assigned to…
"Ah, I am glad she has come. There is a woman with a head and a heart too, Hastings. Though the good God gave her no beauty!" Hastings (the narrator of this story) was on his sick leave from the First World War. His old friend John Cavendish…
A series of shocking crimes occurring recently in Boston, which involves wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalised. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. The series of crimes have the similar pattern with the serial killer Warren Hoyt who is still spending his…
Nigel Bathgate is invited to a weekend house party at the country house of avid collector, Sir Hubert Handesley. The host intends to hold a ‘murder’ game but ends up one of the guests is found dead. The victim is stabbed through the heart by a ceremonial knife (a symbolic…
Inspector Wallander has tons of personal problems: he is recently divorced; he’s estranged from his daughter; drinks too much; lousy diet; and his father is showing signs of senility. One frozen January morning at 5 a.m., an elderly couple is robbed and brutally murdered at an isolated farmhouse.…
The story begins with a homeless woman charms a businessman into paying for dinner and a room. While she is enjoying the one night luxury in her room, she recalls some of the memories of her past before her homeless life. When the police knock her door the next morning,…