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FBI agent Alex Cross is after a serial murderer who chooses as his victims women who've neglected their children for successful careers in the entertainment industry. He describes the murders in overheated e-mails he addresses to his victims but sends to hapless entertainment columnist Arnold Griner, signing them "Mary Smith."

"Tabloids and fans are stunned when Alexis Peterson leaves her popular show for another soap, but she's too busy preparing to be a presenter at the Daytime Emmy Awards to even notice. When her copresenter loses his life before presenting a winner, Alex realizes she has another murder mystery on her hands. Working behind the scenes to find out how her costar could have met such an end, Alex invites handsome Detective Frank Jakes--a man she can't stop...

"A diet-club leader with a taste for crime investigates a murder. Ellie Bernstein, who's babysitting a border collie for shy, insecure fellow member Rachel Lester, is hanging out with her boyfriend, Lt. Peter Miller of Colorado Springs Homicide, when he's called to a murder scene. Ignoring his obligatory warning, Ellie plans to find out who strangled Sara Lee, who looked and sounded just like Barbra Streisand, and tossed her body into the dumpster...