A woman contends with a man who brutally attacked her. The ordeals of an assistant district attorney as she prosecutes a college professor for kidnapping his neighbor's child. A murder trial recalls the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. A reporter's brother is murdered by a literate serial killer who has a fondness for Poe. A woman raised in grandeur discovers that her past is haunted by a dark secret.
Scientists visit a Costa Rican jungle that is the breeding ground of dinosaurs.
A black man's search for his family's history. The changing relationship between a Chinese-American woman and her older Chinese half sister. Political intrigue, sex and murder in Washington's high circles. A pop music star who killed her first husband is on trial for murdering her second.