Larissa Laskin

Sandra Brown’s “Smoke Screen” follows newswoman Britt Shelley (Jaime Pressly), who shockingly wakes up in bed next to the dead body of Detective Jay Burgess and is suspected of foul play. Five years prior, Jay’s lifelong friend Raley Gannon (Currie Graham) also woke up next to a dead body. After learning of Britt’s scandal and the similarities between their two cases, he realizes she might be his only chance for vindication. As the two unravel their mysterious cases together, they find themselves caught in a dangerous political cover-up involving arson and murder.

Venerable newscaster Norm Archer reports the latest news in politics, health, culture and entertainment - such as an automotive recall of decapitation-inducing "Neckbelts" and a study finding that "depression hits losers hardest". This compilation of bogus news stories, celebrity profiles, movie trailers and skits come courtesy of the ace satirists at The Onion.

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.

Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage daughter, Sara's, growing carnal desires with a photographer she meets while planning her high school graduation. It all comes to a head when Jess' former flame and father of Jake, Alex Lofton, returns never knowing he has a son out of his and Jess' lustful fling and wants to be a part of her life again, despite Jess not wanting anything to do with Alex.

A medical examiner investigates his friend's mysterious death in a car accident.

舞台はイリノイ州シカゴ郊外。ある朝ベッドでテレビの討論番組を見ていたジョンQ（デンゼル・ワシントン）は表でがちゃがちゃと何かの機械が動く音に気付き、血相を変えて飛び出すとローンの不払いで妻デニーズ（キンバリー・エリース）の車が差し押さえられ回収されようとしているところだった。ジョンは妻が仕事に行けなくなる、と訴えるが差し押さえ人はそれならローンを払え、と冷たく言い放ち、妻の車は無情にも回収された。ジョンはつい最近会社のリストラの対象となり、フルタイム（正社員）からパートタイム（バイト）に格下げされ、給料が目減りして生活が苦しかったのだ。朝食の席でも眉間にしわを寄せて新聞の求人広告欄をにらみ新しい収入源を見つけようと必死になった。パートタイムに格下げされたため仕事は半日で終わり、工場勤務のため不慣れなネクタイを締めて副業を手に入れようと面接を受けるが「資格過剰」を理由に落とされ続けた。

Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.

When the biological mother of adoptee Jenny Newhall is murdered, Jenny's adoptive father Greg immediately falls under suspicion. This tragic set of events rocks the small, tranquil town in which the Newhalls live to its foundations, ultimately laying bare a number of unpleasant and long-hidden secrets. Based on a novel by Patricia McDonald.

Jack Reed is investigating a mass murder that occurred in a cemetery in broad daylight. Most individuals at the cemetery and the victims are Russian immigrants and they either fear or don't trust the police, because they have complaining about other problems to the police but they don't care or think it warrants investigating. Reed still investigates and it leads to a devious Russian who has turned some young Russians into his private army. Reed's friend, Charles Silvera, also has a problem. The son of an old friend and mayoral candidate, Gordon Thomas, has been arrested for killing someone while driving under the influence. Some of the people on Thomas' staff are afraid that this might jeopardize Thomas' bid for mayor, so they are pressuring Silvera to make it go away but Silvera relents so they threaten him to.

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

A Canadian Army unit with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia is tasked with keeping the peace in a dangerous Croatian town called Krasna.

The true story of a love affair between mob boss Sam Giancana and singer Phyllis McGuire.

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

The town of Myrnam, Alberta forms a non-denominational hospital.

A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.