"To appreciate the value of freedom one must first be denied it. To know real fear gives special meaning and yearning to being free of fear." At the beginning of the book, Deng Adut shares a glimpse of some of his best childhood memories with his family before…
Maura meets an attractive man at the Boston Museum event. The gold name tag on his suit indicates that he is a wealthy man who had donated a lot of money to the museum. After a short and pleasant exchange of conversation, Maura feels tipsy after drinking the champagne. He…
One-Sentence Summary: A martial arts teacher seeking for the truth of her husband's death for nineteen years, and she believes their best friend is not the killer. A severed hand is found on Beach Street at Boston's Chinatown by a kid from the Chinatown Ghost tour. On the rooftop of…
A short story of Jane and Maura investigating a corpse found beside the coffin. The body is identified as a seventeen-year-old girl named Kimberly Rayner. On the satin pillow inside the coffin, they found half a dozen black strands of hair. At the same time, an eighteen-year-old boy named Henry…
One-Sentence Summary: A serial killer who kills for justice thought he has 'sleepwalking' and killing people without his knowledge but the actual killer is someone who is close to him whom he has forgotten of his existence. The narrator of the story is Dexter Morgan, who works for the Miami-Dade…
One-Sentence Summary: Maura was trapped in the heavy snow with a group of acquaintance but accidentally found an abandoned village (Kingdom Come) which is a cult village with young girls married to their spiritual leader. Maura travels to Wyoming for a medical conference. At the conference, she meets her old…
"The difference between the attitudes of these two girls - Sondra with everything offering all - asking nothing of him; Roberta, with nothing, asking all." Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents to help in their street missionary work. Clyde always struggles with the inferiority…
"I will fear no evil" While Charlie Campion is on night duty, a deadly virus escapes the military complex he is monitoring. He manages to flee with his wife and baby daughter before the base enters lockdown. When they reached the East Texas town of Arnette, Charlie's car…
Eight self-drive cars are hacked when their passengers are on the way to their destination. The passengers are a TV star, a pregnant young woman, a disabled war hero, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an illegal immigrant, a husband and wife - and parents of two - who are…
Twelve months ago, a 14-year old boy named Ben Rifkin was murdered in a suburban Massachusetts county. Andy Barber, an assistant district attorney for more than twenty years in the town, is handling the case. When investigating the case to find out the murderer, Andy received an anonymous email of…