American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of hi...

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the author...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reali...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending muc...

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek...

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.

FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witnes...

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and w...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The...

A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its c...

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related ...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern ...