All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Robert Markowitz, ranked

In 1985, computer expert David A. Brown enlists the help of two teenage girls to murder his wife. He manipulates the girls into committing the crime and plans the murder himself. As the investigation progresses, it reveals Brown’s web of deceit and manipulation, which is ultimately exposed in a series of shocking revelations.

Rita Fiore enlists Spenser’s services to investigate the alleged involvement of repeat offender Ellis Alves in the murder of a college student. As Spenser delves deeper into the case, he encounters opposition from various quarters, including the investigating officer and the parents of the victim’s boyfriend. To complicate matters further, a deadly contract killer named Rugar sets his sights on eliminating Spenser.

Taking place during the tumultuous Jazz Age of the 1920s, the story follows the journey of Jay Gatsby, a young man from humble beginnings whose love for the wealthy and glamorous Daisy Buchanan propels him to success and, eventually, his tragic downfall in the high society he so desperately seeks to impress.

The movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain with a commercial expedition.

After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private ‘specialist’ in cases which wouldn’t reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard ‘Ricky’ Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds.

Following the shocking discovery of a tragic mid-air explosion aboard Flight 274—piloted by her husband—Kathryn Lyons’ picture-perfect life abruptly comes crashing down. When the black box is found and alarming allegations about her spouse possibly being to blame for the crash are revealed, the tension increases. Could her husband have been a terrorist in disguise? Was everything she had done with him a lie?