Nancy Paul

Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case. (imdb)

Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape. (imdb)

After her brother's death by overdose, Delaware delves into the world of drugs. Two years later she agrees with her father to submit herself to a drugs rehabilitation program in a special clinic in England. When she arrives for the treatment, with a small group of other drug addicts, she gets in touch with the doctors' unorthodox methods and soon realizes she's stuck in a place where morbid and strange experiences with drugs take place.