Juliet Ashton, a London writer who visits Guernsey to learn about the islanders’ book club formed during the German occupation, learns that their founder, Elizabeth McKenna, died in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Maya Andersson, fifteen, who was raped by the town’s star hockey player Kevin Erdahl, is shunned by much of Beartown when she reports it.

Miss Marple reveals that “Letitia Blacklock,” the kindly owner of Little Paddocks, is really her sister Charlotte, who took Letitia’s identity after Letitia died so she could inherit a fortune from Letitia’s old employer, Randall Goedler.

Hercule Poirot reveals that Nick Buckley, the young owner of End House who claimed someone was trying to kill her, is herself the murderer.

Sayuri, a geisha in Kyoto who was sold as a child, finally becomes the mistress of the Chairman, the man she has loved since he showed her kindness as a girl.

Jing-mei “June” Woo, whose mother Suyuan died before she could find the twin daughters she left behind in China during the war, travels to China with her father to meet her half-sisters.

Nick Allen, a fifth grader who invented the word “frindle” for a pen to challenge his strict language-arts teacher, Mrs.

Ralph, hunted across a burning island by Jack’s savage tribe of schoolboys after Piggy and Simon were killed, collapses on the beach at the feet of a British naval officer who has seen the smoke.

Thirteen-year-old Jenna Metcalf, searching for her mother Alice, an elephant researcher who vanished ten years ago after a death at an elephant sanctuary, discovers that she herself died that night, and that her helper, former detective Virgil Stanhope, is also a ghost.

On an island where things and their memories keep “disappearing,” enforced by the sinister Memory Police, the unnamed novelist narrator hides her editor R, who can still remember.