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🕮 Best book-to-TV adaptations
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A collection of popular TV series from 2000 onwards, all inspired by or adapted from books.


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TV Show: Too Close ( 2021 )
Dedicated forensic psychiatrist, Dr Emma Robinson is not easily shocked. She's worked with her fair share of high security patients. Then she's sent to assess Connie for trial. Connie has a searing insight into Emma's deepest insecurities and starts to brutally exploit them. Their sessions become a complex psychological game with confusing undercurrents. Can Emma find out what happened on the night of the crime? Or what happened to turn Connie into a monster? She tries to understand Connie, and her complicated relationship with her beautiful best friend, Ness, which seems to have made her snap. But as Emma tries to uncover the truth behind the madness and learn what triggered Connie's despicable behaviour, it seems that her attempts to see justice done may destroy her instead.
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TV Show: La última noche en Tremor ( 2024 )
A musician and composer in crisis retreats into a coastal village in the north to finish his latest work. His only neighbors for miles around are a married couple living in the next house. After a serious accident during a storm, the musician begins to experience some terrifying visions about his neighbors.
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TV Show: Achtsam Morden ( 2024 )
A defense lawyer uses mindfulness techniques to take over a criminal gang in this deadpan comedy series based on the bestselling novels by Karsten Dusse.
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TV Show: Como Agua para Chocolate ( 2024 )
Como Agua para Chocolate explores the idea that sometimes traditions can become a prison, an obstacle for love. Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz are two souls deeply in love, yet unable to be together due to entrenched family customs. The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism and rich flavors as Tita struggles between the destiny imposed on her by her family and her fight for love. Along the way, the audience will witness her greatest refuge: the kitchen. For Tita, her magical connection to cooking becomes an active resistance against oppression, allowing her to channel her deepest desires and passions into her recipes, transforming those who taste them.
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TV Show: Until I Kill You ( 2024 )
Until I Kill You is the extraordinary true story of Delia Balmer, who survived a near-fatal relationship with murderer John Sweeney. The series narrates the ordeal Delia suffered at the hands of John Sweeney, and her traumatic journey through the police and criminal justice system as they attempt to prosecute him for his crimes. 
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TV Show: Fortune de France ( 2024 )
France, 1557. At Mespech Castle, the harmony between masters and servants is about to be broken by religious wars. Having embraced the new Protestant movement, Jean de Siorac, a well-respected humanist knight and head of his family, has no choice but to resort to violence to defend his community. His wife Isabelle, a fervent Catholic, is struggling to exist in a world ruled by men. Their sons, Pierre and François, are thrown into adulthood, torn asunder, just like their religiously divided country. Forced to contend with their adversaries, the Sioracs must remain close as they strive to overcome their differences and defend their ideal of tolerance.
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TV Show: The Snow Spider ( 2020 )
The Snow Spider opens with Gwyn Griffiths gloomily awaiting the day of his ninth birthday, an occasion marred once again by the reminder of his missing sister Bethan, who disappeared four years earlier. Little does he know his life is about to be changed forever.
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TV Show: Adorazione ( 2024 )
When their friend vanishes, a group of teens must confront lies that threaten to tear them apart.
 
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TV Show: Cruel Intentions ( 2024 )
Cruel Intentions follows the elite students of Manchester College, where ruthless step-siblings, Caroline and Lucien, will do anything to stay on top of the cutthroat social hierarchy. After a brutal hazing incident threatens all of Greek Life, they'll do whatever is necessary to preserve their power and reputation, even if that means seducing the daughter of the Vice President.
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TV Show: Cien años de soledad ( 2024 )
The story of the Buendia family, who lived for a century in the town of Macondo.It will be the first time that Gabriel García Márquez's seminal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is adapted for the screen, more than 50 years after it was originally published, in 1967.
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TV Show: Harlan Coben's Missing You ( 2025 )
Eleven years ago Detective Kat Donovan's fiancé Josh – the love of her life – disappeared and she's never heard from him since. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh's reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father's murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.
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TV Show: Badjelly ( 2025 )
Based on the beloved kids' book, Badjelly the Witch: A Fairy Story, an irreverent modern fairy tale by renowned Irish comedian, poet, playwright and actor, Spike Milligan, Badjelly delivers a fresh new take for today's kids on this classic story, all the while preserving the crazy humour, bizarre situations and quirky characters from Milligan's original tale that has entertained kids for generations.  
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TV Show: Homestead: The Series ( 2024 )
A continuation of the movie Homestead... Amid chaos, ex-Green Beret joins prepper compound; love grows, truths arise, and a community unites.
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TV Show: Harlan Coben's The Five ( 2016 )
Five friends, one goes missing. Flash forward 20 years and his DNA turns up at a murder scene. The four friends are forced to revisit the past and uncover the truth about the question: Is he really alive?
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TV Show: Harlan Coben's The Stranger ( 2020 )
The Stranger follows Adam Price as a secret destroys his perfect life, sending him on a collision course with a deadly conspiracy. Price has a good life, two wonderful sons, and a watertight marriage, until one night a stranger sits next to him in a bar and tells him a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne's deception, and realizes that if he doesn't make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives—it will end them.
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TV Show: Une chance de trop ( 2016 )
A doctor is shot in the back in her home, her husband is murdered and her infant daughter kidnapped. Faced with inept police, who at times suspect her, she begins her own hunt for her baby and the culprits.
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TV Show: Zachowaj spokój ( 2022 )
Zachowaj spokój is another Netflix title based on the novel by Harlan Coben. The six-episode series is set in a wealthy housing estate, where the local community leads a quiet life with close relationships. Everything changes when 18-year-old Adam disappears without a trace. The danger escalates quickly, and the worried parents do everything they can to protect their children who, on the verge of adulthood, have decided to take matters into their own hands. Hold Tight is a dynamic, twist-filled thriller that, while not a sequel to The Woods, will feature the fate of several protagonists of Harlan Coben's first screen adaptation.
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TV Show: Juste un regard ( 2017 )
What if your whole life was just a lie? If the man you married fifteen years ago wasn't who you thought he was? For Eva Beaufils, it took just one look at an old photo to turn her whole world upside down. Suddenly, her husband Bastien disappears. Eva has only one thing left in mind: find him at all costs. Even if it reawakens old wounds and puts their children at risk, Eva knows that this is the only search that can give her the answer... Can love overcome distrust?
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TV Show: Harlan Coben's Safe ( 2018 )
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a widowed surgeon in an affluent neighborhood begins unearthing dark secrets about the people closest to him.
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TV Show: We Were Liars ( 2025 )
One year after a mysterious accident left her with amnesia, 17-year-old Cadence returns to Beechwood, an island off Martha's Vineyard, seeking answers. As three generations of the distinguished Sinclair family gather at their private summer utopia, no one will talk about the accident – neither her childhood friends "The Liars" nor her first love Gat, forcing her to uncover the truth herself.
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TV Show: The Count of Monte Cristo ( 2025 )
Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor was falsely accused of treason and is imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. After many years of captivity he finally escapes and, under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans to take revenge on those who have wrongly accused him. 
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TV Show: Invisible Boys ( 2025 )
Based on Holden Sheppard's award-winning novel of the same name, Invisible Boys follows three teenage boys in the coastal town of Geraldton, Western Australia, as they navigate their identities, friendships, and complex family dynamics. At the heart of Invisible Boys are Zeke, Charlie, and Hammer who are each grappling with their own challenges while seeking acceptance and belonging.Set against the backdrop of the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite, the series explores the challenges faced by a group of gay teens in the remote coastal town of Geraldton, WA, after one of them is outed on social media following an encounter with a married man. As the group form a tight-knit friendship, the boys find solace and support in one another, exploring their desires and identities in a world that often renders them invisible.
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TV Show: Il Gattopardo ( 2025 )
Amid the unification of 1860s Italy, a Sicilian prince grapples with the collision between his family's ancient privilege and revolutionary change.
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TV Show: Towards Zero ( 2025 )
England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, British tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the unthinkable decision to spend a summer together at Gull's Point, their childhood home and the coastal estate of Nevile's aunt, Lady Tressilian.With unfinished business between the former childhood sweethearts, plus the presence of Nevile's new wife Kay, tensions are running high. Add to this a long-suffering lady's companion, a mysterious gentleman's valet, an exiled cousin with a grudge, a venerable family lawyer, an inquisitive orphan and a French con man, and soon there will be murder. A troubled detective must rediscover his purpose to untangle a toxic web of jealousy, deceit and dysfunction. Can he solve the crime before another victim meets their death?An explosive love triangle, a formidable matriarch and a house party of enemies. All compelled… Towards Zero.
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TV Show: The Stolen Girl ( 2025 )
In The Stolen Girl, a seemingly ordinary decision turns the world of Elisa, mum to two young kids, upside down. When Elisa's nine-year-old daughter asks to go on an overnight playdate with her new best friend, Elisa agrees. But when she says goodnight to her daughter, she has no idea that she is about to be thrust into every parent's worst nightmare, and when Elisa goes to pick her up, she discovers that the beautiful house was a holiday rental, while her daughter has disappeared. What follows is a manhunt across Europe, while Elisa and husband Fred find themselves the object of police scrutiny.
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TV Show: Little Disasters ( 2025 )
Little Disasters centers on four friends who were thrown together while expectant mothers with little in common apart from their due dates. When Jess takes her baby daughter to hospital with a head injury she can't explain, close friend and on-duty A&E doctor Liz is forced to make the excruciating decision as to whether to call social services on her friend. The decision sets of a chain of events that show how a moment can fracture and nearly destroy families and friendships.
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TV Show: Cardinal ( 2017 )
Adapted from author Giles Blunt's award-winning "John Cardinal Mysteries" series, Cardinal is a six-episode dramatic thriller that follows Detective John Cardinal on a chilling hunt for a brutal killer in a small Northern Ontario town.Demoted for a hunch about a case that he wouldn't let go, Cardinal is brought back to the Homicide Unit when the body of missing 13-year-old Katie Pine is discovered, proving his instincts correct. Back on the case, his search for her murderer soon becomes an all-consuming race to stay ahead of a serial killer.Meanwhile, Cardinal must manage his own precarious family issues and secrets, and keep a watchful eye on his new partner, Detective Lise Delorme, who he believes may have her own secret agenda.
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TV Show: The Survivors ( 2025 )
Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.
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TV Show: Mix Tape ( 2025 )
Mix Tape is a four-part event miniseries adapted from the popular and critically acclaimed novel by Jane Sanderson. Beginning in Sheffield, England in 1989 with Daniel and Alison's all-encompassing teenage romance, forever etched in their memories through the music of their generation. To the modern day reality of their adult relationships, now living on opposite sides of the world.A new chapter begins for Daniel and Alison when they reconnect through a song from their shared past and explore their burning curiosity to understand if this is the love, and life, they were meant to have.
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TV Show: L'arte della gioia ( 2025 )
The series L'arte della gioia tells the story of Modesta, a young Sicilian girl from the early 1900s who, born into poverty, fights to conquer love, freedom and power. After a tragic accident that tears her away from her family, she is welcomed into a convent where, thanks to her intelligence and stubbornness, she becomes the protégé of the Mother Superior. She later arrives at the villa of Princess Brandiforti, where she makes herself indispensable. This incessant movement of emancipation is accompanied by a path of personal and sexual maturation, which leads her to discover and claim the right to pleasure and happiness.
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TV Show: Bosch ( 2015 )
Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, Harry Bosch, an LAPD homicide detective, stands trial for the fatal shooting of a serial murder suspect. A cold case involving the remains of a missing boy forces Bosch to confront his past.
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TV Show: Bosch: Legacy ( 2022 )
Harry Bosch, retired homicide detective turned Private Investigator, fights to work cases without the authority his former job provided. Attorney Honey "Money" Chandler, having survived an attempted murder, struggles to maintain her faith in the justice system. And Maddie Bosch discovers the possibilities and challenges of being a rookie patrol cop on the streets of Los Angeles.
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TV Show: Ballard ( 2025 )
Detective Renée Ballard is tasked with running the LAPD's new cold case division—a poorly funded, all-volunteer unit with the largest case load in the city. Ballard approaches these frozen-in-time cases with empathy and determination. When she uncovers a larger conspiracy during her investigations, she'll lean on the assistance of her retired ally, Harry Bosch, to navigate the dangers that threaten both her unit and her life.
 
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TV Show: The Family Next Door ( 2025 )
Propelled by a mystery that disrupts a seemingly harmonious beachside community, the series explores the universal challenges of motherhood, marriage, friendship, and the complexities of identity. It's peak holiday season in the popular seaside town of Osprey Point when an enigmatic stranger, Isabelle rents a family home in a quiet cul-de-sac. As Isabelle charms her way into her neighbours' homes and lives, she quickly discovers that everyone at Pleasant Court has something to hide. How far will her obsessive drive to solve a mystery push her to expose the truth?
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TV Show: Outlander: Blood of My Blood ( 2025 )
Outlander: Blood of My Blood explores the lives and relationship of Claire's parents, Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp, and Jamie's parents, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser. The series centers on these two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie's parents in the early 18th-century Scottish Highlands and Claire's parents in WWI England.
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TV Show: Atomic ( 2025 )
Atomic is a dynamic and entertaining action-fuelled adventure. When Max and Mohammed, two unlikely friends – and even less likely heroes – become swept up in a cartel's plot to transport uranium across North Africa, they face a monumental decision: save themselves or risk everything to prevent a nuclear bomb getting into the wrong hands.
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TV Show: The Forsytes ( 2025 )
The Forsytes chronicles the lives, loves, trials and triumphs of a wealthy late Victorian stockbroking family, whose generations are torn between the tradition and self-sacrifice versus personal happiness and the pursuit of love. Family stability is threatened by two chance encounters for rival cousins, Jolyon and Soames, throwing their previously steady lives into disarray.
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TV Show: The Forsyte Saga ( 2002 )
This sexy and powerful drama spans three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century and is based on the classic novels by Nobel Prize-winning author John Galsworthy.
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TV Show: The Forsyte Saga ( 1967 )
The story, roughly, is that of a large family in Victorian England. We see three generations of Forsytes struggle with love, money, and family secrets that will hang over them.
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TV Show: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order ( 2025 )
Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order focuses on a secretive society called the Talamasca, comprised of the men and women responsible for tracking and containing the witches, vampires, and other creatures scattered around the globe.
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TV Show: Leonard and Hungry Paul ( 2025 )
The story follows two unique board-gaming friends meandering through leafy suburban life, charting a story about Judo, ancient Rome, first loves, and the expansion of the Universe.
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TV Show: Down Cemetery Road ( 2025 )
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a girl disappears in the aftermath, neighbor Sarah Trafford becomes obsessed with finding her and enlists the help of private investigator Zoë Boehm. Zoë and Sarah suddenly find themselves in a complex conspiracy that reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
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TV Show: IT: Welcome to Derry ( 2025 )
Taking place in the ‘60s, the show explores the origins of the curse that would haunt the small Maine town for the next 27 years — as well as the origin story of Pennywise the Clown.
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TV Show: E.B. White's Charlotte's Web ( 2025 )
A farm pig named Wilbur befriends a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur learns he is being raised for slaughter, Charlotte writes messages praising him in her web in order to convince the farmer to let him live.
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TV Show: The Girlfriend ( 2025 )
Laura wants for nothing. She has a glittering career, a loving husband, Howard, and, above all, she has Daniel, her precious only son. But Laura's seemingly perfect life is blown apart when Daniel brings home Cherry, the girlfriend who changes everything. After an uncomfortable first meeting, Laura grows convinced that Cherry isn't who she says she is. While no one else can see what she sees, Laura refuses to stand by and watch Daniel be deceived. She'll do anything to protect him. As things go from bad to deadly, the question is, is Cherry a manipulative social climber? Or is Laura paranoid and possessive? The truth is a matter of perspective.
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TV Show: The Rumour ( 2025 )
Joanna moves with her young son, Alfie, to the quiet town of Flinstead, seeking a fresh start. However, she quickly becomes entangled in the lives of local mothers and the unsettling dynamics of the community. When Joanna stumbles upon an online rumour about a child killer living in the town, she uses it to win over the mums at the school gate. As gossip spreads, suspicions build, and Joanna finds herself drawn into a web of secrets and paranoia. Balancing her efforts to protect her son with the growing unease in town, Joanna struggles to distinguish between truth and hearsay. With relationships strained and emotions running high, the boundaries between trust and fear blur.
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TV Show: Dos tumbas ( 2025 )
Two years after the disappearance of Verónica and Marta, two 16-year-old friends, the investigation is declared closed due to lack of evidence and suspects. The grandmother of one of the two girls, Isabel, who has nothing to lose, decides to carry out an investigation beyond the law. Isabel will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth about what happened that night and what begins as the search for a culprit, soon becomes a story of revenge.
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TV Show: Trespasses ( 2025 )
1975, in a town outside Belfast. Whilst working one night behind the bar of her family pub, serving a mixed crowd including the locally stationed soldiers, Catholic schoolteacher Cushla meets Michael, an older Protestant married man, who often defends IRA suspects and is friends with cultured Bohemians who enrage and intrigue Cushla. Worlds apart, Cushla knows a relationship like this spells all kinds of trouble, but they are irresistibly drawn to one another.  In a place where loose lips cost lives and danger lurks in the shadows, amidst the fear and paranoia, this illicit affair between Cushla and Michael ignites and burns bright...
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TV Show: Summerwater ( 2025 )
Set against the backdrop of a remote loch-side Scottish holiday cabin park and set over the course of one single rainy summer's day, Summerwater looks at the simmering tensions between holidaymakers that eventually erupt into a devastating climax. Weaving together the lives of several families as they navigate unspoken conflicts, private dilemmas, and fleeting moments of beauty from their disparate cabins, the series will take an unflinching but empathetic look at human nature across generations.
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TV Show: El cuco de cristal ( 2025 )
Clara Merlo, a first-year resident doctor, suffers a fatal heart attack that forces her to undergo a heart transplant. While recovering, the she feels the need to meet her donor, which leads her to a small inland town to learn about the life of the young man who gave her his heart. Clara thus delves into a place full of secrets, a mystery that extends over twenty years, and a closed-off town where, on the very day of her arrival, a baby disappears in a public park.
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TV Show: Merteuil ( 2025 )
After being brutally betrayed, Isabelle turns her hunger for vengeance into seduction – climbing her way amongst Paris' glittering elite.
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TV Show: Cooper & Fry ( 2025 )
Set in the mystery-shrouded Peak District, the series follows two mismatched young detectives: affable local Ben Cooper and guarded newcomer Diane Fry. Thrown together to investigate a string of mysterious deaths they must learn to work together to get results. As their personal lives begin to intertwine, a unique friendship begins to form... But it won't always be easy.