A local detective investigates the murder of a businessman who returned to town after years of being away. The detective holds a conflict of interest in the case: his sister was swindled years ago by the victim.

After a 12-year-old girl goes missing in Boston, an unlikely alliance forms between a private investigator and a cop from out of town who is investigating a cold case murder.

A brilliant young man with an obsession with the Sherlock Holmes series joins an investigation into a series of gruesome murders in New York—but his mysterious motives test the lead detective on the case.

A struggling private-investigator is drawn into a lurid murder-suicide case even after he is officially off the case.

A couple moves into an old, country farmhouse and is touched by a sentimental grave. One day, a man arrives after being released from a mental hospital, tells the couple it's the grave of his beloved pet, and asks to dig it up; however, police detective intervenes and arrests the man. It turns out the man is a serial killer and the grave holds a suitcase full of trophies from his former victims.

A thirty-year-old deputy in rural Ohio finds the body of a drug dealer hidden off the side of the road. He finds a way to frame his criminal father and brother for the crime—unable as he is to arrest them for the plethora of other crimes they have committed—all without leaving any trace of his involvement.

A hired thug and private eye meets his match in a young woman pretending to be a victim in need of saving. He realizes too late she's far more dangerous than the man she asks him to find.

Seeking escape from his dysfunctional family, a businessman hires a retired police officer to kill his wife. It doesn't go as planned.

A grocery store worker is shot and killed in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and in the aftermath of the shooting, the entire neighborhood works to protect the killer.

A private detective in Havana resignedly accepts a case from a wealthy sugar planter whose slave has gone missing — but the detective soon discovers that the slave's disappearance is linked to a larger, unbelievably atrocious crime.