When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer, and loyalties are tested. The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from the outside world. Even worse, one Snooper hadn’t made it back from the slopes when the avalanche hit.

Astrologer, fortune teller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years—in just one week. With the help of his freelance illustrator friend, Kiyoshi sets out to answer the questions that have haunted the country ever since. With maps, charts, and other illustrations, this story of magic and illusion—pieced together like a great stage tragedy—challenges the reader to unravel the mystery before the final curtain falls.

34-year-old Savannah Mitchell has been forced into a co-parenting relationship with Max, a near-stranger she shared a brief fling with, and Madison, his seemingly sweet girlfriend, who is ever-eager to share responsibilities with Savannah. But as Madison’s demands grow increasingly coercive, Savannah wonders if her eagerness was a ploy to eliminate the need for co-parenting altogether. After all, it seems Madison never had any intentions of Savannah being in the child’s life.

Dr. Sanjay Patel once believed he would dedicate his life to serving those in need, but now he treats billionaires on private jets and gets paid in Gucci totes packed with cash. But when his estranged mentor collapses from a fatal stroke minutes after scribbling “Page Dr. Sanjay” on a blank prescription, Sanjay is pulled back to the hospital that nearly ended his medical career. He and his ex-mentor’s daughter, Emma—who also happens to be the woman who broke his heart nearly a decade prior—reunite to uncover the truth about what happened to her father.

Trina is the nanny for the wealthy Eaton family, and she’s convinced that Rosalind Eaton stole her sweet baby boy. He fusses in his supposed mother’s arms, and he has light auburn hair that hardly resembles the Eaton family’s renowned dark curls. Plus, Trina knows what they’re capable of. After years of watching their family, Trina has uncovered a secret about the Eatons’ past that could lead to their undoing.

August Caine is blindsided by the news of her Aunt Helen’s passing—an aunt her mother insisted died 15 years ago in a car accident. Now determined to uncover the truth, August returns to the one safe place she remembers from her grief-ridden childhood: her Aunt Helen’s home in the deep South. Once home, August finds that the trauma of her father’s unsolved murder still grips her. As she pieces together the long-buried secrets that have shaped her family’s tragic past, she must decide whether the truth is worth unraveling everything she holds close.

Charleigh Anderson remembers what it was like to claw her way from being a poor, loser outcast on the poor side of East Texas to where she is now, and she refuses to go back. But when a new, insufferably prairie-kissed family comes to town, Charleigh’s entire social empire in Longview, Texas, threatens to crumble, and she’ll do anything to preserve it.

Debbie Mullen has been running a neighborly advice column, Dear Debbie, for the wives of New England for years. She’s helped countless women through their struggles of being ignored, belittled, or abused by their husbands. Now, she’s just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband has been keeping secrets. She’s done being reasonable, practical, grounded. It’s time to take her own advice and get back at all the people in her life who have wronged her.

Eden Fox is on the brink of artistic success when she returns to discover her home, Spyglass, is no longer her own. A strange woman answers the door. And her husband is insistent that this stranger is his wife. Six months earlier, reclusive Londoner Birdy inherits Spyglass from a long-lost grandmother. But when a shadowy London clinic predicts the date of her death, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. Secrets start to unravel, and the line between truth and lies blurs.

After two teenage girls are found dead outside a wealthy Chicago suburb, Abby Rosso begins to suspect her son was involved. She doesn’t want to believe Benjamin could hurt anyone, but there have been signs. After all, violence runs in the family. Two decades earlier, her brother was imprisoned for a disturbing crime, and Abby has more troubling memories from her own adolescence that confirm what boys and men are capable of. As Abby searches for the truth about what happened to the girls, she’s forced to face her fear that she’s been covering for her son for years.

Hannah Hall and her stepdaughter, Bailey, have finally settled into their new life after the sudden disappearance of her husband, Owen. The past, it seems, is finally behind them. Until Owen shows up at Hannah’s new exhibition and reveals that she and Bailey are once again in danger. Forced on a relentless race to keep their past from catching up with them, Hannah risks everything to get Bailey to safety while discovering there might just be a way back to Owen and their long-awaited second chance.

The idyll of Courtney Gray’s lakeside vacation is shattered when she finds her brother and sister-in-law dead in their lakeside cottage. Her niece, Reese, is missing, and her nephew Wyatt is asleep upstairs, unharmed. As police swarm the quiet resort and upend dark truths about Courtney’s family, they begin to wonder whether Reese is the victim or the killer. The faster Courtney races to uncover the truth, the more she realizes everyone is hiding something, making it harder to know who—or what—to trust.