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All the Colors of the Dark
In 1975 Missouri a one-eyed boy saves a girl from abduction and is taken himself, and the friend who refuses to stop looking for him spends decades chasing the truth.
And Then There Were None
Ten strangers with buried secrets are lured to an island off the Devon coast, where a nursery rhyme begins counting them down one by one.
Blood Will Tell
A teen search-and-rescue volunteer in Portland becomes the prime suspect in a murder, and his two friends race to clear his name.
Long Bright River
A Philadelphia patrol officer hunts for her missing, opioid-addicted sister while someone is strangling women on the streets she polices.
The Arrangement
A wife proposes that she and her husband each date a stranger once a week to save their marriage, and the rules they set are broken almost at once, with terrible results.