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Teenager Serendipity Dahlquist hires Los Angeles private investigator Leo Bloodworth to find her missing dog. Their unlikely partnership takes them beyond a lost-pet search into violent criminal territory, where the headstrong girl and weary detective face unexpected murders.

Private investigator Leo Bloodworth and teenage partner Serendipity Dahlquist take on a missing teenager and a pair of sapphire earrings. The two searches send them through Los Angeles, raising questions about whether their apparently separate cases are connected.

Fresh out of rehabilitation, New Orleans investigator Terry Manion refuses to accept his mentor's apparent suicide. With fellow detective Nadia Wells, he follows a trail of endangered associates toward a killer operating deep in the Louisiana swamps.

Terry Manion reopens the decades-old killing of a Black activist for a television producer. Connections to his father and mentor make the inquiry personal, while earlier murders marked with voodoo dolls complicate the history he must unravel.

Prosecutor Nikki Hill is recalled from Compton to handle a talk-show personality's death in Los Angeles. Working with veteran detective Ed Goodman, she faces powerful entertainment figures, political pressure, and a network of lawyers, criminals, and compromised police.

Nine mysteries follow detectives through Los Angeles and New Orleans. Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity Dahlquist investigate a suspicious suicide and deadly blackmail, while Terry Manion and J.J. Legendre confront murders rooted in their city’s tangled relationships.

The murder of a wealthy woman leaves her drunken lover as the obvious suspect and her young son without answers. Prosecutor Nikki Hill joins the case investigated by her own lover, encountering powerful family interests and unexpected maternal feelings.

Ambitious lawyer Mercer Early's defense of a drug dealer is followed by his client's murder and a police detective's arrest. Blackmailed into representing the officer, Mercer risks his career and hidden past as the case reaches powerful Los Angeles interests.

Lawyer Mercer Early takes on a Los Angeles police officer accused of killing his wife. What appears to be a routine defense becomes more troubling when two other officers kill their spouses, complicating his understanding of the case.

In 1965, young copywriter Harry Trauble joins men's magazine Ogle, where an executive dies beneath its giant frog statue. Harry and receptionist Terry O'Mara suspect murder as management rivalries and additional deaths disrupt the company's supposedly carefree atmosphere.

Chef and morning-show personality Billy Blessing becomes the prime suspect when a network producer dies after eating poisoned food from his restaurant. To save his name and career, Billy investigates a dangerous secret hiding behind television's polished surface.

Billy Blessing heads to Los Angeles to help launch a late-night television show, where an old unsolved murder and a vengeful chef await him. An explosion during taping forces Billy to untangle a web of secrets, money, and betrayal.

Celebrity chef Billy Blessing travels to Chicago with his morning show, only to face blackmail over a buried part of his past. When a murder rattles the show's circle, Billy must uncover who is turning old secrets into fresh danger.

Ex-convict Dave Mason accepts a crime boss's assignment to watch his former girlfriend, who now loves a rival. When that rival dies, Mason's surveillance job becomes a dangerous investigation into a failed deal and concealed motives.

Crime novelist Diamond Jack Barker has been murdered, and Lieutenant Rudy Cugat faces trial for the killing. Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity Dahlquist investigate on their friend's behalf, seeking the actual murderer before the case against him proceeds.

Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity Dahlquist are hired to protect rapper B.A. Dawg after he receives death threats. Their investigation turns a celebrity security assignment into a murder mystery, with unexpected complications surrounding the performer and the danger facing him.

Los Angeles investigator Leo Bloodworth looks into a Satanic cult and encounters a dubious reality television star. Russian criminals, federal agents, animals, and murder complicate the case, drawing him into a web of competing interests and dangerous secrets.

Leo Bloodworth and other participants in an old murder case are lured onto a Christmas Eve radio panel. As they revisit the crime thirty years later, emerging secrets suggest that a killer may be among the guests.

Hollywood magazine employee Harry Trauble's 1960s lifestyle is interrupted by suspicious deaths and a strangled corpse in his car. As an assassin threatens Ogle's staff, Harry must uncover the scheme behind his workplace's increasingly dangerous turmoil.