わたしがまだ時折、自殺願望に取り付かれていた頃、サラちゃんは殺された──新人脚本家の甲斐千尋は、新進気鋭の映画監督長谷部香から、新作の相談を受けた。

超高層マンション「スカイローズガーデン」の一室で、そこに住む野口夫妻の変死体が発見された。現場に居合わせたのは、20代の4人の男女。それぞれの証言は驚くべき真実を明らかにしていく。

デビュー作の絵本『あおぞらリボン』がベストセラーとなった陽子と、新聞記者の晴美は親友同士。共に幼いころ親に捨てられ児童養護施設で育った過去を持つ。

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!

深瀬和久は平凡なサラリーマン。唯一の趣味は、美味しいコーヒーを淹れる事だ。そんな深瀬が自宅以外でリラックスできる場所といえば、自宅近所にあるクローバーコーヒーだった。

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

After the killing of a prominent mob lawyer, NYPD homicide detectives Jacob Jackson and Caitlin Grimes start receive chilling, written “rules” for how to commit the perfect murder. "Rule number one for the perfect murder: Evidence is your enemy. Leave none behind." Jackson (Reid Scott) and Grimes (Cobie Smulders) race to find the killer, setting them on a collision course with the city’s crime underbelly, and a perpetrator who seems happy to toy with them. “Rule number two. No crimes of passion. The perfect murder is always business, never pleasure.”

Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.

「愛美は死にました。しかし事故ではありません。このクラスの生徒に殺されたのです」我が子を校内で亡くした中学校の女性教師によるホームルームでの告白から、この物語は始まる。語り手が「級友」「犯人」「犯人の家族」と次々と変わり、次第に事件の全体像が浮き彫りにされていく。衝撃的なラストを巡り物議を醸した、デビュー作にして、第6回本屋大賞受賞のベストセラー。

15年前、静かな田舎町でひとりの女児が殺害された。直前まで一緒に遊んでいた四人の女の子は、犯人と思われる男と言葉を交わしていたものの、なぜか顔が思い出せず、事件は迷宮入りとなる。

デビュー作の絵本『あおぞらリボン』がベストセラーとなった陽子と、新聞記者の晴美は親友同士。共に幼いころ親に捨てられ児童養護施設で育った過去を持つ。

わたしがまだ時折、自殺願望に取り付かれていた頃、サラちゃんは殺された──新人脚本家の甲斐千尋は、新進気鋭の映画監督長谷部香から、新作の相談を受けた。

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!