Jill McKay

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

障害を抱えながらも驚異的な記憶力を持つ私立探偵のライオネル・エスログの人生の恩人であり、唯一の友人でもあるボスのフランク・ミナが殺害された。事件の真相を探るべく、エスログがハーレムのジャズクラブ、ブルックリンのスラム街と大都会の闇に迫っていく。わずかな手掛かり、天性の勘、そして行動力を頼りに事件を追うエスログがたどり着いたのは、腐敗した街でもっとも危険と称される黒幕の男だった。

学歴がないせいで、長年勤めてきた大型量販店での昇進を逃した女副店長。悔しさと成り行きでつい自分を"演出"してしまい、大企業の高給職を手に入れたものの…。