When her much despised sister Del goes missing, leading an unwelcome cast of characters back into her life, Bryn Collins teams up with her fourteen-year-old nephew to find Del and must face her own fears to piece her family back together again.

When her 9-year-old nephew disappears without a trace, Hope Chen, guilt-ridden, fears the worst, while a woman with dangerous secrets, to save her marriage, finally gives her husband the one thing that will make him love her again, until their lives collide in an explosive battle of wits.

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog - is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino's murder. Poldi has tasted blood....

A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.