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Effie Watson thought she had it made when she married Hugo Fincham. He was rich and good-looking with an exclusive central London home. But marriage to Hugo has drawn her into the orbit of a wealthy, dysfunctional family with a dark secret at its core. When Effie confides to her best friends that Hugo is trying to kill her, no one believes her.

Empty-nester Carole Cabobianco and her dog Poopsie have set out to clear her husband's name after he is heard raging about man who turns up dead three months later.

Just back from her second tour in Afghanistan, NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli goes undercover to expose a ring of dirty cops. But when she's ordered to kill to prove her loyalty, she aborts the operation without having identified the leaders. Now, Corelli is the one exposed. With her brothers and sisters in blue ostracizing her, can she trust Detective P. J. Parker to watch her back?

For the picturesque town of Oceanview on the Oregon Coast, May brings blossoming fruit trees and the annual UFO festival. As Aunt Eloise tries out alien costumes on their Havana brown cat Everett, Wren is off to meet with a her go-to guy for local fruit tree honey. But when she arrives, Elias Brentwood is lying on the ground amidst destroyed hives and a swarm of angry bees. As blue-eyed Officer Jim Hampton investigates and the town is invaded by its own swarm of crackpots, Wren and Aunt Eloise decide the only way to catch the bee wrangler's killer is to set up a sting.

American Alana Eastwood is researching her family tree. Remarkably, Alana traces her Eastwood lineage to an African child, living at Wortley Hall Manor on England's 1801 census. The boy is known as Otobong. Alana believes Otobong to be her earliest traceable ancestor and plans to visit her distant relatives still living in Nottingham. Discovering he was connected to a homicide in 1835 sets Alana on a mission to prove his innocence. Then the body of a man turns up on a beach in Mississippi, eerily close to where Alana's father was born.

Leipzig, Januar 1920. Der Polizist Paul Stainer kehrt aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft zurück. Deutschland taumelt durch die Nachkriegswirren, nichts ist mehr so, wie es einmal war, und in viel zu vielen Nächten wird Stainer vom Grauen der Schützengräben eingeholt. Doch ein aufsehenerregender Fall zwingt den Kriminalinspektor, sich mit der Gegenwart zu befassen: In der Villa eines Fabrikanten werden mehrere Menschen erschossen.