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A tropical ghostwriting assignment turns into a murder investigation when Roxy Parker finds her hotelier client buried in the sand. Wealthy guests and secretive locals complicate the search, while the victim's daughter may be the next target.

Ghostwriter Roxy Parker doubts the apparent suicide of a socialite whose life story she has been writing. Following the woman's hidden history from Sydney to rural Australia exposes old grievances, threatening strangers, and secrets among Roxy's own acquaintances.

Vilia inherits a remote Papua New Guinea island after her estranged mother's death. The bequest includes clues to her father's disappearance thirty years earlier, pulling her away from Manhattan and into an investigation of her family's buried history.

A series of murders targeting bestselling authors points investigators toward Roxy's literary agent. Determined to clear him, the ghostwriter follows the clues along Australia's east coast, unaware that another writer could soon become the killer's next victim.

Alicia starts a book club devoted to crime fiction, but its members soon face a real mystery. A socialite disappears and her husband dies, prompting the readers to apply their favorite fictional detectives' methods to the troubling evidence.

A dying man's unexpected mention of Roxy Parker draws her into a puzzling murder. His daughter hires Roxy to locate a missing photograph, whose concealed significance may explain both his final words and the threats surrounding the investigation.

Roxy's estranged boyfriend disappears from a Swiss resort while his roommate is murdered in Berlin. A cryptic message convinces her he is in danger, sending her and his sister across Europe to reconstruct his movements and find him.

Writing a rock star's biography takes Roxy to Byron Bay, where her client is electrocuted during a performance. His many enemies offer plenty of suspects, but Roxy's attraction to one of them puts her judgment at odds with a detective friend's.

After being stabbed, Lulu Gold's spirit remains at the crime scene rather than moving on. Determined to identify her killer, she revisits her relationships and final moments, especially the disturbing possibility that her teenage son was involved.

Alicia and her crime-reading friends board the SS Orient for a cruise from Sydney to Auckland. A passenger's death and another woman's disappearance interrupt the voyage, giving the amateur detectives two unsettling mysteries to investigate at sea.

Shot during her own pool party, Maisie watches from beyond death as the celebration continues. Her boyfriend, friend, and brothers become possible suspects, while a strange letter and unexplained cash offer clues she must decipher before crossing over.

An outdoor movie ends with the book club discovering a murdered woman on a nearby blanket. Hundreds of people were present, yet nobody noticed the attack, leaving the amateur sleuths to investigate a crime that appears to lack witnesses.

Millie faces a choice between leaving a Greek ferry with an alluring stranger and staying with her friends. Two parallel versions of her life follow that decision, each carrying secrets that converge thirteen years later around disappearance and murder.

Roxy agrees to write the story of a woman whose family disappeared overnight twenty years earlier. Investigating what prompted their vanishing becomes more compelling than the memoir, while her detective friend tackles an equally strange death in a hot car.

A wealthy grandfather recruits five unlikely detectives to overturn the apparent murder-suicide committed by his heir. With two weeks and millions in rewards at stake, the competing sleuths must combine their skills despite their personal troubles.

The book club gathers at a remote rainforest lodge with four secretive new members. Murders turn their meeting into a struggle for survival, and a spreading bushfire cuts off escape as they try to identify the killer among them.

The Sleuths of Last Resort investigate the murder of the mining magnate who brought them together, with his assistant under suspicion. Meanwhile, Kila revisits his sister’s death after discovering that the convicted killer may have been innocent.

The Sleuths of Last Resort have three days to locate a young woman who vanished during her daily walk. A charming kayaker's inconsistent story launches an investigation through a wealthy coastal suburb, where fresh suspects and another death complicate matters.

A guest disappears during a birthday party at an isolated mansion, and the book club begins searching. Other bodies surface as police suspect the missing man, forcing the amateur detectives to examine his family and their own friend’s secrets.

Claire Hargreaves expects a romantic honeymoon on a yacht exploring the Great Barrier Reef. A dead passenger brings her book club into an investigation among secretive guests and crew, while possible sabotage leaves everyone trapped with the killer.

Alicia Finlay sees a body fall from the Indian Pacific during her hen party, but her friends doubt her. When a passenger is reported missing, the book club has two days to solve a mystery aboard the locked train.

When Ginny DeRosso dies beneath a city train, her former colleague Alicia Finlay suspects murder. Four cryptic clues and another suspicious death bring the book club into a magazine-office investigation that also threatens Alicia’s detective husband’s career.