One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator whos as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....

Snow has been falling on the village all winter long and all there is to do is stay inside and trade tales. This year everybody is talking about Katri Kling, an outcast who lives with her simple minded brother and Anna, an elderly children's book illustrator, who lives alone in a large empty house. Anna has something Katri wants and by the time spring arrives, the two women are caught in a conflict of ideals that threatens to strip them of their most...

"A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace Turner disappeared. Now, tentatively sober and surprisingly numb, Grace is back in Los Angeles after her year of self-imposed exile. She knows the new private...