Marybeth Medina, deputy director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, learns of the death of her former supervisor Ray King. In an attempt to find the killers, she takes Ray's clue and contacts Christian Wolff, a brilliant autistic mathematician and shadow auditor with killer skills. Enlisting the support of his brother Braxton, Christian gradually puts all the pieces of the puzzle together, but King's killers aren't slumbering either.
October 1990. Joe Deacon, a middle-aged deputy sheriff nicknamed Deaky, is sent on a minor assignment to Los Angeles. Five years earlier, he was a respected detective there, but one investigation ruined his life and his health. Dickie meets a young, ambitious colleague, Jim Baxter, who is working on a series of murders suspiciously similar to those unsolved five years earlier. Dickie decides to stay on the job, determined to see the case through to the end and track down the killer at any cost.
The girl Scottie Parker arrives at the university later than the other students, so she doesn't get a place in the student dormitory. Then she rents a room in a large old estate by the sea, in which live hermits: Mason Engels and his mother. Soon someone starts killing students on campus. Scottie begins to suspect the Engels family of committing these crimes. She learns that Mason's crazy sister Virginia, who is kept locked in the basement of the house by the owners, also lives on the estate....
In a small town many years ago children disappeared, and these cases remained unsolved. And now the nightmare returns to the sleepy town - on his birthday, Michael disappears on his way home from school. In search of her brother, Wendy Darling finds herself on the trail of Peter Pan, a maniac obsessed with the idea of eternal childhood who drags his victims to Netland.
Ted Beaumont is a successful writer. His bestsellers bear the name George Stark, but this is not a pseudonym; it is his mysterious doppelganger, who has been haunting his real half from the dark depths of the subconscious since childhood. It is he who has been guiding Ted's hand against his will for so many years.
Wanting to get rid of the fruit of his own imagination, the writer arranges a funeral for his invisible reflection. But no one can get rid of their own shadow. It comes to life and begins to take revenge...
An American professor specializing in hieroglyphics comes to Oxford to decipher a secret message, the contents of which are of interest to spies, oil sheiks, and a number of Middle Eastern leaders. He is aided by the sexy mistress of an oil tycoon with political ambitions.
Jessica has just been released from a psychiatric hospital. Her husband decides that she needs fresh air for her final recovery, and together with Jessica and a friend he moves to a newly purchased country house. Approaching the house, Jessica begins to hear voices and see strange things, but believes that it only seems to her. But the house is not empty. A charming homeless hippie girl named Emily has taken up residence in it. Jessica feels sorry for Emily and begs her to stay. It'll be more fun together. And with Emily is really fun - she is just the soul of the company and plays the guitar perfectly. But why does she look so much like the girl in the old portrait hanging in the house? Why are all the residents of the neighboring small town behaving so strangely? Maybe it's just a play of Jessica's sick imagination, or maybe not.
A killer with no memory of his name or past is being pursued by police inspector Frank Basted. His wife Emma is looking for him, strangers are after him, and he tries to make sense of what's going on through scraps of memory.
After every thousand generations, a perfect child is born, a child endowed with magical powers, whose destiny is to bring good to the world. The forces of evil have kidnapped the child... Now the most important thing in the world is to find him! The ancient oracle Nechung has predicted that only a chosen person will be able to save the Golden Child. According to the prediction, it must be a brave man with a pure soul. Only one mortal fits this definition - Chandler from Los Angeles. He must fulfill his mission, to wrest the Golden Child from the forces of evil and save the world....
