Jonathan Strange and Gilbert Norrell defeat the Gentleman with the Thistle-Down Hair with the help of Stephen Black, who becomes King of the Lost-hope fairy kingdom.

Kenji, a young guide to Tokyo’s sex industry, survives three nights with Frank, an American tourist who turns out to be a serial killer.

The grand jury decides not to indict the police officer who shot Khalil, and Garden Heights erupts in protest.

Carl Lee Hailey, a Black father who shot the two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter Tonya, is found not guilty by an all-white jury.

Mitch McDeere escapes the Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and the Mafia family that owns it, after handing the FBI evidence of their crimes.

Hercule Poirot reveals that Patrick Redfern and his wife Christine murdered the glamorous Arlena Marshall for her money.

Setsuko dies of malnutrition, and Seita cremates her.

Ruth Jefferson, a Black nurse accused of causing the death of a white supremacist couple’s baby, is cleared when the judge dismisses the case after her lawyer Kennedy McQuarrie raises race in court.

The missing girls, Miranda, Marion and Irma, are never explained.

Ted, the narrator, kills the other four humans so that the supercomputer AM can no longer torture them.