Emma Lawson is a good mother. She makes her son's sandwiches into triangles every morning. She puts a little drawing in her daughter's lunchbox. She loves her husband. She laughs at the right moments. She remembers everyone's name. She also has a small glass vial in her handbag. Between 2022 and 2024, five people died at ordinary gatherings in Valencia, Spain. A street festival. A school parents' evening. A birthday dinner. A children's fete. A New Year's party. Nobody connected the deaths...

Binti had one ordinary face and one extraordinary figure. She knew which one people noticed. At twenty-five she had a college degree, no job, no husband, and a father who called her a burden to her face. That same night she opened her mother's Almera cupboard in the dark, took the jewellery kept for her wedding, and walked out of her Kochi home at four in the morning. She had no plan. She had no contacts. She had never been to Bangalore. What she had was a six month promise to herself. Eit...