Cassandra had her eyeballs removed postmortem and the eyeballs placed in her open palm. She was found dead by her father in her apartment. The father suffers a heart attack and still in a coma in the hospital. Maura couldn't find the victim's cause of death. The next victim, Timothy,…
One-Sentence Summary: An identity thief is targeting the sole survivor of a safari trip who assumed the tour guide is the real killer. A group of seven tourists with two tour guides went to a safari trip in Botswana. The beginning of the story gives a brief description of each…
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…
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: 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…
A woman recalls her dream to go to Egypt when she was a kid. When she was in college, she thought she was lucky to be recommended for a summer job at an excavation in Egypt’s western desert. She never expects that the trip will change her and leads…
The boy is standing beside his father's grave. This is the first time he meets his uncle's family. He was in boarding school and just returned for the funeral. His aunt invites him to stay with them during the summer break. He rejects the idea at first and believes that…
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…