Alexandra Sinclair and her new husband, Benedict Nash, Viscount Litton, are celebrating their marriage at an outdoor reception when children and their dogs discover a woman’s body in the adjacent woods. The victim is a resident of The Home for Unfortunate Women, a place for former prostitutes to learn new trades. When Alex discovers local residents now want to close the Home, she quickly joins the Home’s board, never guessing she is making a very dangerous choice.

More deaths follow, each victim connected in some way to the Home. When local constables are unable to catch the killer, Alex and two friends set out to capture the ruthless murderer.

Laid off from her magazine job, Lauren Prescott reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a memoir for a woman who calls herself the Queen of Dumpster Diving. She attends a potluck dinner where guests bring food they found dumpster diving. By the end of the night one guest is dead, poisoned by toxic nuts. Days later another woman is poisoned by gifts sent to the Queen by “A Grateful Former Student.” Lauren is determined to bring the killer to justice while also keeping herself alive.

Liz James is totally shocked when her former best friend, investigative reporter Caroline Marshall, kills herself. Liz steps in to help Caroline’s newspaper colleague finish her last story concerning psychiatrists who sleep with their patients. She learns that Caroline was dangerously close to the subject, and her death starts to look very much like murder.

Liz receives an anonymous, hand-printed note at her office: IT’S YOUR FAULT, BITCH. I HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE. She has no idea what it is she’s done. Two other mental health center employees receive similar notes. No one takes the poisoned-pen letters seriously—until one of the recipients, a therapist, is killed. Then a second employee is murdered. The pressure is on Liz to discover the murderer—because she is now the only person who received the note and isn’t dead.

Liz is asked to help a charismatic colleague, Kate Quinlan, who holds Powerful Woman workshops. One of the newly empowered workshop graduates runs over her husband, and now Kate is accused of murdering her own unfaithful husband. Liz has to discover if Kate is innocent or if she has begun to practice what she preached.

Lauren Prescott is an affluent, fifty-year-old wife and mother whose dentist husband abruptly leaves her, taking all their money and valuable art and furniture with him. To land a magazine job, Lauren writes a profile of a fitness guru who died while jogging—a death that looks increasingly suspicious the more she probes. Her search for her missing husband reveals criminal secrets. Lauren has to uncover the stark reality behind the two men’s public facades, unaware that her investigating has put her own life in danger.

Plastic surgeon Kate Dalton, who was the victim of bullying during high school, is a prime suspect in the murders of several members of a cruel high school school clique, known as The Six. But Kate insists she is innocent. Will the real murderer be found before the last members of The Six meet their fate at their fifteenth high school reunion?

Best-selling mystery writer Katherine March dies from an injected overdose of a potent anti-anxiety drug—a murder technique straight from one of Katherine’s novels. Katherine’s daughter, criminology professor Molly Patterson, must push aside her resentment of her secretive, workaholic mother to dispel the rumors that Katherine killed herself and discover who really murdered her.