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Driving a cold northern highway in an effort to reach her daughter who is in labor, Cass comes across a young woman running from her abusive boyfriend.

Lady Winthrope is hosting the latest society dinner, and her beleaguered cook, Alice, has to feed surprise guests and still find time to sneak away to see her son--until the Home Secretary keels over dead before the marzipan tower is even served.

Peg and Joe Donavon--such a sweet couple--moved in next door to Sarah Fernandes and proceeded to wreck her life by performing unsolicited favors. And as all the world knows, no good deed goes unpunished.

A couple buy a house amid a crime scene

A cuckold concrete contractor dumps concrete onto his neighbor's model railroad -- a criminal act that uncovers two serial killers.

A somewhat-satirical story critiquing contemporary organizing/activism spaces, about a young woman seeking strange revenge and perhaps self worth after being harassed.

When two out-of-town Toronto cops stop for dinner in an Italian bistro, they don't count on being witness to murder! Hijinks ensue when it turns out reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo and her kooky cousin Nico are at the next table.

The proofreader at a headstone company investigates the death of a client.