All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Peter Markle, ranked

In 1956 on a desert not far from Las Vegas, the military conducts nuclear tests. Dr. Alexander Brown begins his career as a neurologist there, overseeing a top-secret project: studying the soldiers’ stress resistance near a hazardous atomic testing base. Back in the present day, Dr. Brown has become a wealthy and renowned neurologist, married to the beautiful Paula. Everything seems to be perfect, yet Paula struggles to comprehend her husband’s uncontrollable anxieties.

Divorced crisis negotiator police lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara struggles with the pressures of her job, raising her young daughter Carly, facing mounting bills, and taking care of her agoraphobic mother Essie. While talking down a distraught armed suicidal man threatening to jump from a rooftop, Phoebe meets his ex-boss, who can’t resist her take-charge attitude, not to mention her physical attractiveness.

Laura Stone is a college instructor and wife to Daniel, a comic book creator. Their tranquil existence is disrupted when their daughter accuses her former boyfriend, Jason, of sexual assault. After Jason’s death, which appears to be a suicide, the family becomes embroiled in a highly publicized investigation that causes shockwaves throughout their Maine community.

With D-Day less than 72 hours off, top US intelligence officer Jefferson Pike, is captured by the enemy. Pike, one of handful of officers who know where the allies will strike, is a professional who the Nazis know will never succumb to torture. They hatch a diabolical plan to deceive him into thinking that the war is over and he’s recuperating from memory loss in a US hospital in Germany.

World famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town of Innocence to retreat from the world. But a serial slayer is stalking the streets of Innocence, and Caroline may be a prime target for murder.