Defense lawyer Mickey Haller proves his rich client Louis Roulet is a killer by arranging for evidence to surface after Roulet is cleared of assault.

Detective Patrick Kenzie discovers that four-year-old Amanda McCready was “kidnapped” by police captain Jack Doyle, who took her to give her a better life than with her neglectful mother.

The twin sisters Desiree and Stella Vignes never fully reunite: Stella, who has secretly lived as a white woman for decades, briefly visits her family but flees again.

Arthur Less, who spent a year travelling the world to avoid his ex-boyfriend Freddy’s wedding, returns home to San Francisco to find Freddy waiting for him.

Connie Chatterley is pregnant by Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper, and they plan a life together.

Sherlock Holmes reveals that the naturalist Jack Stapleton, secretly a Baskerville heir, used a huge dog painted with phosphorus to frighten Sir Charles Baskerville to death and to hunt Sir Henry.

Hercule Poirot reveals that Simon Doyle and his former fiancée Jacqueline de Bellefort plotted together to murder Simon’s rich new wife, Linnet Ridgeway, for her fortune.

Tom Ripley kills Dickie Greenleaf, takes his place, and gets away with it.

Mariam kills Rasheed to save Laila and is executed by the Taliban.

Jack Twist dies, reportedly in a tire accident, though Ennis Del Mar suspects he was beaten to death for being gay.