All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Paul Shapiro, ranked

During the summer of 1985, three adolescent girls make a vow of enduring friendship at Hubbard’s Point, a coastal neighborhood. One of the women’s widower returns to the beach town with his teenage daughter years later after she has passed away in an effort to reconnect with her.

Eve Morgan, a workaholic, finds herself tethered to her guardian angel, Pearl, as she learns to become a Christmas angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, Eve is assigned the difficult task of helping a struggling singer, Max, use his musical gifts to heal old family wounds. As Max begins to overcome his issues, Eve begins to embrace the meaning of Christmas, heal wounds of her own, and perhaps find love along the way.

A lifeless baby is discovered in an idyllic, unspoiled Amish farming community, leaving the question of whether it was a terrible accident or murder up in the air. This is the challenging issue faced by renowned criminal defense attorney Ellie Harrison, who abandons her hedonistic city lifestyle to go to the rural region of Pennsylvania. Ellie is tasked with representing an 18-year-old Amish girl, Katie, who is accused of killing her infant.

Aspiring crime writer Ann Rule becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy while working at a women’s clinic in Seattle in the 1970s. Unknowingly, she spends time with Bundy and is unaware of his heinous crimes until he is arrested and she becomes the lead writer for the case.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world.

Heaven has finally found the new life she always dreamed of with her newly discovered grandparents. Upon closer inspection, beauty and riches hide sinister secrets Heaven has tried desperately to rid herself of.