The Killings Begin
Feeling abandoned again, the killings begin.
Across the Atlantic, a young woman’s life begins in The Peacock’s penthouse.
At eighteen, Gia Delgado flees her small farming village and her father's threat of an arranged marriage for Madrid. Working as a maid leaves no room for the life she wants—until an unusual arrangement with three men offers her a way out. The first big decision she's ever made for herself. A stunning apartment in a restored building where historical elegance meets modern luxury—a future on her own terms.
It's unconventional. It's liberating. Gia becomes the keeper of their secrets—secrets even they don't share with each other. And no one is allowed to fall in love.
For five years, it works. She has time to figure out what she actually wants. Now she's ready to see the world. She takes a job with the Spectrum River Cruise Line to work with her best friend Mari. They spend their days off in hidden corners of Europe, in intimate cafés filled with the aroma of fresh coffee, exploring sun-drenched cobblestone streets.
But you know something Gia and Mari don't.
One of the passengers is running from what he's done. Judge Tracey Lauch crosses the Atlantic hoping distance will quiet the urge he doesn't understand and can't stop. Four murders behind him. The need still there.
Three lives. One summer in Europe. And the growing certainty that someone won't make it home.
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Death in a Dark Alley
Some choices define you—and the killer is traveling again.
In France, a riverboat captain has everything she didn't know she needed.
Isabelle Ronaldo fights harder than any man to become Spectrum's first female riverboat captain. No desk. No office. Just the world—tracing intimate rivers, meeting passengers immersed in art and history.
But her personal life is messier: wrong men, worse timing. Until she falls for someone unexpected. Now she has a love that surprised her, and a choice she never thought she'd face.
Frank has been her best friend since they were teenagers in Brazil. They've always called each other "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" even though they never were. But something's shifted. The easy intimacy they once had is fraying.
Tracey Lauch is traveling through Europe again as a sophisticated tourist, a passenger on a Spectrum river cruise. In Strasbourg, he meets a woman heading to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame. Gothic artistry draws them both. They strike up a conversation. She doesn't sense the danger walking beside her.
Captain Ronaldo commands a different Spectrum vessel—one that also docks in Strasbourg. Frank and his beautiful business partner are passengers on her boat. Isabelle tries to avoid them both while maintaining her professional demeanor, but some bonds don't break cleanly. They fray slowly, until something snaps.
Five lives. One city. One night that changes everything.
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A Body Washes Ashore
Friendships deepen quickly—but the urge to kill hasn’t left him.
Living in Italy, his new friends see a version of him that finally feels real.
Tracey Lauch has never belonged anywhere—until now. He and his wife Charlotte are seated for dinner with an interesting group of passengers on a Spectrum river cruise pulling away from the Eiffel Tower. After the trip, they invite each other into their lives. Murder mystery dinners in Milan. A road trip to Budapest. Dancing around a bonfire on an Italian beach.
The group becomes inseparable. Fong and Tracey bond over art and elaborating on a made-up story about Henri, an art thief. Lee, Charlotte, and Remy grow especially close—the kind of friendship that feels like it's always existed—with long conversations over good wine, shared secrets.
Remy’s secret is that she’s built a careful life with rules designed to protect her heart. Until she breaks the most important one. Now she's crossed a line she swore she never would. She's in too deep to walk away cleanly.
Meanwhile, Charlotte has no idea what her husband really is. Their friends think he’s charming. And Tracey wants to keep it that way. This is everything he's wanted: connection, normalcy, trust.
But Tracey's murders are getting sloppier. More personal. The version of himself he's built—husband, friend, philanthropist—is cracking.
Close friends. One affair. One killer they never suspect.
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After the Killings
The past always resurfaces—and this killer is coming home one last time.
In Raleigh, a retired detective who's never let go is about to get her answers.
Divorced for many years, Penelope is now retired from the Raleigh Police Department. She channels her relentless energy into training—marathons at first, now her first triathlon. She's never been good at sitting still.
She's also not good at walking away. Even though the case officially belongs to the department, she keeps working on it—the Parking Lot Strangler case. On her own time, she spends hours studying the evidence. The dead women deserve better than to be forgotten. She's determined to be their voice, their advocate. She can't give up on them.
Tracey Lauch is returning to Raleigh to tie up loose ends. He has it all now—Charlotte, his beautiful wife who adores him, and baby Sarah, recently christened and surrounded by love. He's selling his Raleigh house, handing off his philanthropic work, and moving permanently to Sicily. It's a meticulously constructed life where his past is buried deep enough to stay hidden.
Then Tracey invites Penelope to his house—he doesn't tell her why. What she discovers there redefines her entire investigation.
Unexpected evidence. A killer's day of reckoning. Betrayal that cuts deep.
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