One-Sentence Summary: A bottle of perfume which reluctantly being sold to Bess leads to the adventure of capturing a counterfeit syndicate. When waiting for the train to return to River Heights, Nancy is contemplating their encounter with the mysterious woman in the Oriental perfume shop. She still feels suspicious with…
One-Sentence Summary: Three specific children being targeted by a killer for an unknown reason and murders are following them wherever they go. Thirteen-year-old Claire Ward should have died on the night when she was in the car with her adoptive parents. They had an accident. Claire rescued by a woman…
One-Sentence Summary: Ishmael joins the adventure of hunting whales but almost lost his own life due to Captain Ahab's obsession of hunting the white whale (Moby Dick) which he had lost his leg to it. "Call me Ishmael." The narrator introduces himself as Ishmael. He recalls his life…
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…