A murder is discovered on the grounds of Belle Vie, a working antebellum plantation in Louisiana that now operates as an event venue. The estate’s manager becomes entangled in the official investigation and the local upheaval that follows, with labor relations and the plantation’s history intensifying the stakes.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

An espionage thriller centered on a woman trained by Russian intelligence to use seduction and deception as tools of recruitment and infiltration.

A government research zone has been sealed off after decades of strange phenomena. A team of four unnamed female specialists enters as the twelfth expedition to survey the area and record observations.

A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

A literary mystery shaped by old films and the archival traces they leave behind: a narrator follows production records, stills, and fragments of silent cinema to reconstruct a troubling past and the people connected to it.

An ordinary-seeming encounter between strangers escalates into a plotted decision about murder and consequence. The setup focuses on characters who trade confidences and proposals that test ethics and self-interest, then follow the fallout as allegiances and truth become unreliable.

An anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole embedded in the South Vietnamese army, recounts life after the fall of Saigon while living among a South Vietnamese exile community in the United States.