Helen West is crusading senior prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service. Her life is complicated by her ongoing affair with a senior police officer.
Nearly a quarter of a century after she witnessed the murder of her mother, Jane Fielding is married and has a daughter of her own, but the traumatic events of that day still haunt her. She constantly aware that the murderer is still at large. While on a routine visit to hospital, she locks eyes with the man she believes killed her mother.
Every action causes a reaction. Newton's 3rd law does not only explain the relationship between bodies and "momentum" in classical mechanics, but also human relationships and the "momentum" that characterizes them, in general. Relationships with others and with ourselves. The relationship between the present and the past. The relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. Family dramas, love affairs of loyalty and infidelity, serial killers, crimes of honor, passion, revenge, punishment, necessity.
Emma Conti is an internationally renowned étoile. She was only a girl when she left Vicenza for New York, to forget the death of Alice, the child she had from her great love of her youth. After sixteen years an anonymous letter insinuates in her the doubt: her daughter would be alive in Vicenza and would be a dancer, just like her. It's time for Emma to go home and seek out the truth among the pupils of her old dance school. Emma will find the girl she once was, and she will open up to the possibility of a new love.
When bodies start to appear, with a crow bone stuck in their throat as their common signature, two tough investigators, Gabrielle and Clémence, must team up to solve these crimes that shock the province... and the whole world. Circumstances will force them to reveal themselves to each other, to forge an imperishable bond and to question what is real and what is not.
There is a loss in the Zhilin family. The brothers, Nikolai, deputy commander of the Simferopol Berkut, and Andrey, a Moscow surgeon, and their sister, Natalia, a teacher at the Simferopol gymnasium, come to their father's funeral. Many years ago, in the 90s, circumstances separated the brothers and sister in different cities and even countries. A conflict breaks out between them over a house by the sea.
Yudi, a young politician, is murdered in broad daylight, which opens a can of worms. His closest friends become prime suspects, and as the mystery unfolds, many dark secrets unravel.
As a child, Liza Zaretskaya saw her parents die. She couldn't speak for two years after that and learned to hear people's thoughts. Liza grew up and became a therapist. Her daughter Dasha inherited her gift. Dasha has just graduated from school and wants to study psychology. Albert Kling, a friend of Liza's, is doing complex psychological research and performs tests on Dasha, much to Liza's displeasure. Suddenly Dasha's classmate Ksenya, who was also Liza's patient, goes missing. Police Captain Mikhail Zhikharev asks Liza and Dasha to help his investigation. Dasha's boyfriend Mitya, Kling's assistant joins the search. But Dasha goes missing too.