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When adults moving back home becomes a death sentence for their parents, retired FBI Agent Kate Wise is pulled from her peaceful life into a malignant game of domestic malice—a killer's blueprint drawn in the very floorplans of suburbia.

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But Ella is stumped when victims of a new serial killer turn up with the signature of a real-life horror movie….

FBI agent Mackenzie White is reluctant to return to the Midwest, this time to a starkly rural setting that reminds her too much of her upbringing, of her own ghosts in her closet. She also seeks her own father's murderer, with darkness haunting her at every turn of her trip. Plunged deep into the world of farms, of silos, of slaughterhouses, of long stretches on empty highways, Mackenzie feels as if she's falling back into the depths of her psyche, and into the nightmares she always feared to face.

FBI Agent Ella Dark, 29, is given her big chance to achieve her life’s dream: to join the Behavioral Crimes Unit. Ella’s hidden obsession of gaining an encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers has led to her being singled out for her brilliant mind, and invited to join the big leagues.

Still reeling from her former partner Lucy’s death and from her partner Bill’s PTSD, FBI Special Agent Riley Paige does her best to try to keep herself stable and to patch together her family life. She has to decide what to about April’s boyfriend, recovering from his abusive father, and about Blaine, who is ready for their relationship to move ahead. But before she can work it out, Riley is summoned for a new case. In an idyllic suburban town in the Midwest, teenage girls are going missing - and a body has already turned up.

Wealthy couples are torn apart when a killer strikes at the heart of their perfect lives, leaving one dead and one to mourn.. LAPD's finest profiler, Jessie Hunt, is on the trail of this vengeful predator, but as she closes in, will the hunter has become the hunted?

In a high-end Los Angeles suburb, wealthy wives are being found dead in their luxurious homes, with seemingly no connection. As Jessie plunges deeper into their exclusive world of clubs, lunches, vacations and every possible perk, she quickly realizes that appearances are not what they seem in their silver-spooned world - and that a killer is actively hunting amongst them.

In A Trace of Crime, Keri Locke, missing persons detective in the homicide division of the LAPD, follows a fresh lead for her abducted daughter. She winds her way through a twisted underworld, and step-by-step, she gets closer to finding her daughter. Yet she has no time. Keri is assigned a new case: a dad calls from an affluent community and reports that his teen daughter vanished on the way home from school. Shortly after, ransom letters arrive. Twisted, filled with riddles, they make it clear that there is little time to save the girl.

In a wealthy, competitive suburb where parents will do anything to get their kids into a top college, parents are turning up dead. With seemingly nothing to connect the murders, and yet with potential suspects everywhere, Jessie soon realizes that sometimes, in the most perfect of places, darkness lies…

Women are turning up dead on the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley is on paid leave, recovering from her encounter with her last serial killer, and, fragile as she is, the FBI is reluctant to tap her brilliant mind. Yet Riley, needing to battle her own demons, comes onboard.

The college community is shocked when the unthinkable happens: a famous, untouchable professor has been found murdered on campus. From harassed students to aggrieved colleagues, his list of secret enemies is long. Too long. The deeper Jessie digs, the more she realizes that nothing is as it seems. And that this killer may just strike again.

FBI Violent Crimes Division Special Agent Chloe Fine, 27, still reeling from the secrets of her past, finds herself thrown into her first case: the murder of a nanny in a seemingly perfect suburban town. Immersed in a world of secrets, of unfaithful couples, of pretense and artifice, Chloe soon realizes that anyone - and everyone - may be guilty. Yet at the same time, with her own father still in jail, she must battle her own demons and unravel her own secrets, which threaten to bring her down before her own career even begins.

Paige King, 25, in her PhD residency at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, is summoned urgently by the FBI: Her most notorious patient, a diabolical and elusive serial killer, has escaped. And they need her to help hunt him down.

The serene suburbs are shaken as book club enthusiasts begin dying in scenes ripped from their latest reads—forcing FBI Agent Kate Wise back into action to decode the literary clues before the final chapter claims another victim.

When the hostess of a decadent Malibu beach party is found dead in her home, it seems clear that a killer is stalking these parties and looking for his next victim. But as Jessie digs deeper and enters this killer’s mind, she realizes there is more than meets the eye: these murders are personal. And if she doesn’t stop him soon, another woman will be dead.

Fifty-five-year-old FBI agent Kate Wise is called back in from retirement when a second husband from a wealthy suburb is found murdered, shot to death on his way home. Can it be a coincidence? There was one case that has haunted Kate her entire career, the one that she couldn’t solve. Now, 10 years later, a second husband is killed in the same way - and from the same, exclusive town. What is the connection? And can Kate redeem herself and solve it before it goes cold again?

FBI Agent Riley Paige faces a calculating serial killer who turns abandoned classrooms into macabre crime scenes, complete with unsolved math problems on the blackboard.

FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. A victim of a new killer is found dead, an ancient water clock mysteriously dripping on her body—and Ella knows she has precious little time to decode this killer’s riddle, and stop him before he finds his next target…

When members of an HOA board meet grisly ends that mirror the petty rules they enforce, FBI Agent Kate Wise must again step out of her quiet life to track a murderer who's rewriting the covenant in blood. Will she untangle this web of suburban secrets before the killer adds more bodies to their twisted homeowner's association?

Homicide Detective Avery Black has been through hell. Once a top criminal defense attorney, she fell from grace when she managed to get a brilliant Harvard professor off - only to watch him kill again. She lost her husband and her daughter, and her life fell apart around her.