murder

It's the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests' healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. And yet, outside The Manor's immaculately kept grounds, and ancient forest bristles with secrets. The local community resents what they see as the Manor's intrusion into the local woods and attempts to privatize the beach, and small skirmishes have erupted on the edges of the property between locals and the staff. And the whispers keep coming, about an old piece of pagan folklore--it must be folklore--the Night Birds, an avenging force that can be called upon to make right wrongs that elude the law. Though surely everything at the Manor has been done aboveboard. On the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. There's been a fire. A body's been discovered. Something's not right with the guests. What happened on the grounds of the Manor the past 36 hours? And who--or what--is the cause? Everyone has an agenda. Everyone has a past. But not everyone will survive...The Midnight Feast.

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.

In the quiet neighborhood of Hollow's Edge, Brandon and Fiona Truett are murdered and a neighbor, Ruby Fletcher, is sent to prison on the testimony of her neighbors. While Ruby's in jail, the neighbors cannot sell their homes and are forced to stare at the Truett's empty house. Fourteen months later, Ruby's conviction is overturned and she returns to the house she shared with Harper Nash. Harper is terrified, and to make things worse, she begins receiving threatening notes. She realizes someone didn't tell the truth about the night of the murders and now Harper must learn who the real killer is before he or she strikes again.

Lily Armitage is summoned to her family's grand manor for Christmas by her estranged aunt who wants her to take part in a family tradition to play the Christmas game, promising that whoever wins will secure the deed to the home. As Lily gathers with her cousins to play the game, she realizes that each of them have their own agenda and they're not about to play fair. But Lily isn't interested in the home, she wants to learn who killed her mother there twenty-one years ago. When a snowstorm strands them however, she realizes someone is hiding a secret and the game takes a deadly turn.

Jamie Watson wins an unwanted rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school not far away from his estranged father. Also at the school is Charlotte Holmes, great-great-great-granddaughter of the famous Sherlock. Jamie decides to admire the volatile girl from afar, but when the two of them are framed for murder, Jamie and Charlotte have no choice but to come together and clear their names.

Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie.

When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.

"Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot, was one of them. Without his account of events, the other two kids might have gone down for Mr. Larkin's murder--but instead, thanks to Tripp, they're now at the top of the Saint Ambrose social pyramid. Tripp's friends have never forgotten what Tripp did for them that day, and neither has he. Just like he hasn't forgotten that everything he told the police was a lie. Digging into the past is bound to shake up the present, and when Brynn begins to investigate what happened in the woods that day, she uncovers secrets that might change everything--about Saint Ambrose, about Mr. Larkin, and about her ex-best friend, Tripp Talbot. Four years ago someone got away with murder. More terrifying is that they might be closer than anyone thinks."--.

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Detective Will Dormer goes to Alaska to solve a brutal murder and ends up shooting his own partner accidentally.