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In the TV Show |
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The book is set in New Jersey and New York, USA in 2016. |
The TV series is set in England in 2024. |
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The book is entirely from the point of view of Maya Stern in chapters 1 to 33. Chapter 34, which is set 25 years later, is from Shane’s point of view. |
The TV series is in the point of view of various characters.
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When Joe was killed, he was shot twice in the chest and once in the head with a 38 caliber handgun. |
When Joe is killed, he is shot three times in the chest with a 9mm pistol. |
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Maya sees her dead husband Joe, alive, in nanny cam footage when she reviews it. When confronting Izabella, she sprays Maya in the face with pepper spray and runs away with the SD card. Maya later has a discussion with Shane about how Joe could have faked his death. |
Izabella assaults Maya with pepper spray prior to stealing the SD card. Maya and Shane do not discuss how Joe might have faked his death.
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Maya is a gun enthusiast and has a collection of various firearms that are registered in the state of New Jersey and a few that are not registered but still legally owned. |
Maya has some rifles and a shotgun in her gun collection and a deactivated Glock 17 she brought home from her combat deployment overseas. She belongs to a gun club where she is able to practice shooting a pistol. She also has an illegal semi-automatic pistol in a hidden compartment in the safe. |
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Maya is nearly six feet tall and athletic |
Maya is much shorter at about 5’4”.
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Maya got pregnant by Joe while they were dating. He proposed to her right after. |
This is not in the TV series. |
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These subplots are not in the book. |
There is a subplot concerning DS Sami Kierce’s past as a recovering alcoholic (his fiancée was murdered) and serious health problems that he is trying to keep a secret from everyone including his upcoming marriage to his pregnant girlfriend. He periodically passes out at home, while working and driving which caused a minor accident. He is taking Burkett corporation medications that might be causing his medical problems.
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Claire Walker was making calls to and receiving calls on her secret cell phone from a strip club. |
Claire Walker was using her secret cell phone for making calls to and receiving calls from a gaming arcade. |
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Maya is working as a flight instructor since resigning from the US Army. She gives lessons in a Cessna 172. |
Maya is working as a flight instructor since resigning from the British Army. She instructs civilians in a helicopter.
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Maya is unable to put a tracker on a red car she has spotted following her in the past. She eventually follows the car and finds Corey Rudzinski is the driver. He brings her back to the strip club to talk to her about his activities. Corey says Claire was giving him information on Burkett industries medical fraud in exchange for not releasing the audio on Maya’s actions that caused the death of civilians during combat. |
Maya is able to put a tracker on the red car that was following her. While in the helicopter with a student, Maya tracks the car on her phone and lands near where its parked in the forest. She searches on foot, then is assaulted and detained by two men who bring her to talk to Corey Rudzinski. Corey says Claire was giving him information on Burkett industries medical fraud in exchange for not releasing the audio on Maya’s actions that caused the death of civilians during combat. |
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While Maya, Claire and a friend were traveling in Europe, they meet some men and had some flings, but did not have sex with the men. Nothing about Claire having a baby with Alexander Dosman. |
While Maya, Claire and Eva were traveling in Europe, they meet some men. Twenty years later, Claire’s children Dan and Abby find an old film camera. Developed photos show their mom pregnant with a child that could not be one of them. They also see a man in the photos, they learn his name is Alexander Dosman. Abby visits him at his home where he tells about meeting her mother, but he did not know she was pregnant.
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This is not in the book. |
The police question Phil Dawson about a bike he owns that was involved in the murder of Joe Burkett. |
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Maya confronts Ona Douglass, the wife of Tom Douglass about the $10,000 a month payments from the Burketts for many years. She gets no information from her other than that Tom is away and she does not know where he is. Tom was the Coast Guard officer in charge of the investigation into Andrew Burkett’s death. |
Tommy Dark’s wife Ona calls Maya and says she needs to talk to her. Tommy had been receiving 9000 pounds a month for the last 20 years from the Burkett family since the death of Andrew Burkett when he fell off of the yacht. Tommy was the captain of the family’s yacht and has been missing for six weeks. Maya argues with Judith about these events.
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This does not happen in the book. |
Dan finds a document related to a DNA test that he had as a child. They go to the website; it shows a connection to a half sibling. Maya tells Dan and Abby that they have a half brother that is about 19 now. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Eddie Walker goes to Alexander Dosman’s house and beats him up. Later he returns and they talk. Dosman says he didn’t know his child existed until a week ago.
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This does not happen in the book. |
The police find out that Eddie lied about his whereabouts when his wife was murdered. Kierce and McGreggor question him about it; he says he drove a woman named Sasha home that night and ended up in a pub. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
A young man (Louis) gets an e-mail alert that says Claire Walker check his DNA profile. He later meets Abby at the sports center and says he was hanging out with her mom to try to get to know her. Claire was killed soon after he saw her for the last time while touring a private school.
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Corey and Maya go to Tom Douglass’ storage unit and open it. It stinks from his rotting corpse. She sends Corey away and calls 911. She tells the police she was acting on a tip and saw an arm sticking out of the door. |
Corey and Maya go to Tommy’s rented storage unit. They find Tommy Dark’s corpse in a freezer in the storage unit. The police are called, they find Maya there, but not Corey. Maya asks Kierce about the 9000 pounds he gets each months, he denies that he is getting anything. |
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When Maya is questioned by the police about Tom Douglass’s death, she does not admit that Corey was with her. |
Kierce brings Maya into the police station to question her about blood in her car that could match Tommy Dark’s blood. When they ask about the man in her car on the way to Dark’s storage unit, she tells him Corey was with her. She tells them about her investigation into the Burketts and suggests that Corey planted Dark’s blood in her car.
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This is not in the book. |
Corey hacks into the police station computers and locks them up. Kierce and McGreggor search for him. Kierce breaks into Corey’s hideout in the forest. Corey ambushes him, runs away, then is arrested by Kierce. |
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Maya tracked down Christopher Swain’s e-mail and sends him a message. Later, he calls her and asks Maya to meet him at his rehab center. Swain tells Maya that Joe was a monster who attacked boys he felt threatened by. Swain says they tied Theo down to make him chug beer, but Joe switched to grain alcohol. Joe forced Andrew to help him put Theo’s body in the school basement after he died. Weeks later while they were out on the yacht, Andrew said he wanted them to confess to causing Theo’s death. Later on, Andrew went topside on the yacht, Joe followed him. Swain thinks Joe pushed Andrew overboard. |
Judith gives Maya the name of the most exclusive rehab center in the area, so she can track down Christopher Swain after he was arrested for multiple DUI’s but never prosecuted. Maya finds him in rehab where he tells her that Joe murdered Andrew. Swain goes on to explain that they forced vodka down Theo Maro’s throat which caused him to die. Swain claims Joe killed Andrew to stop him from confessing to killing Theo.
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After leaving the rehab center, several men in a van try to kidnap Maya after forcing her car off of the road. She shoots/kills one man, the others drive away. She takes the dead man’s wallet, hides the body in a ditch then drives away. She smashes her cell phone to prevent it from tracking her, then buys another phone at a store. |
This does not happen in the TV series. |
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Maya arranges for Eddie to take Lily to and from daycare. Maya and Eddie exchange license plates on their cars in case Maya plates are flagged by the police for an arrest. |
Maya arranges for Eddie to take care of Lily so she can go away for a while. This includes allowing him to pick and drop off Lily at the daycare.
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This is not in the book. |
Kierce and McGreggor chase PJ, the son of the soccer coach though a building and up onto a rooftop. PJ admits to being out stealing handbags with a friend named Rambottom (Rambo). His friend killed Joe when they robbed him. Kierce starts to pass out, PJ tries to save him, but falls off of the roof and is badly injured. Kierce is suspended. Kierce tells McGreggor about the Buckett company medical fraud. |
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Maya finds Izabella and her brother then ambushes them in their truck. She pistol whips them both. Izabella claims her mother told them that Maya killed Joe, so they faked the video of Joe on the nanny cam SD card. They did it so Maya would question her sanity. |
Maya plants a tracking device on Izabella’s brother’s vehicle. When she finds them later on, Maya holds Luka and Izzabella at gunpoint; she threatens Izabella and pistol whips her brother until they admit to faking the nanny cam footage of Joe. They superimposed Joe’s face over Luka’s body. Judith thought Maya was lying about Joe’s death.
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Shane shows up while Maya is threatening Izabella and her brother. He knows that the same gun was used to kill Claire and Joe because Maya had given him a spent bullet from her revolver and asked him to get it compared to the bullet found in her sister’s body. |
A flashback shows Maya giving Shane a fired bullet from her hidden Glock 17 to compare to the bullet found in Claire’s body. After she finds out her gun was used to kill Claire, she determines that Joe had killed Claire. |
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Maya lured Joe to the park. She had switched around her two 38 caliber revolvers stored in the gun safe so that she had the one Joe used on Claire and Joe had the other one with the firing pin removed. After Maya told Joe that she knew he killed Claire, Joe tried to shoot her, but his gun would not fire. Maya then murdered Joe. Maya dumped the murder weapon in the river and reassembled the other registered revolver and put it back in the safe. |
Maya switched her deactivated Glock 17 with her illegal and functioning Glock 17. Joe takes the deactivated pistol to meet Maya in the park. After Maya confronts/accuses Joe in the park, Joe tries to shoot her, but his gun doesn’t work. Maya murders him then.
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This is not in the book. |
Kierce questions Rambo who tells him that he saw Maya murder Joe. Kierce has her car tracked to Lily’s daycare, Kierce goes there to find that Eddie has picked up Lily and that Maya is at home. |
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This is not in the book. |
It is revealed that Joe disposed of Tommy Dark’s body and got blood in Maya’s car while doing so.
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Shane drives Maya and Izzabella to Judith Burkett’s house. Maya enters the house while Shane guards Izzabella and her brother. |
Shane drives Izabella and her brother out of the city and abandons them on the road so they will not be able to bother them for a while. |
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When Judith, Niel and Caroline return home, Maya admits to killing Joe. Judith admits that Joe murdered Claire because she “tried to destroy us” by exposing their medical fraud. Neil admits to sending men to kidnap Maya after she left Swain. Maya tells Judith that Joe killed Theo Mora, Tom Douglass and his brother Andrew. Judith is shocked at the revelation that Joe killed Andrew. Neil shoots Maya three times. |
Maya sneaks into Judith Burkett’s house to confront her along with Niel and Caroline. Judith admits that Claire had evidence of Burkett medical fraud and Joe’s murder of Andrew. Judith knows that Joe was evil. Judith suggests that everything (faulty drugs) is blamed on Joe. Niel shoots and kills Maya.
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Judith, Neil and Caroline follow Maya’s dying gaze towards the fireplace and see the nanny cam she placed there. The shooting was live streamed to the internet. Maya dies. |
Kierce and Coey watch in horror as the nanny cam streams Maya’s murder on the internet. It was watched by thousands of people. |
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25 years later Shane thinks back to Maya actions on the day of her death. She went to the Burkett house unarmed so they would not be able to claim self defense if they tried to kill her. Maya claimed she never felt guilty about the civilian deaths in Iraq and she would do it again to protect her fellow soldiers. |
Corey tells Kierce that Maya was atoning for her war crimes by setting herself up to be murdered by the Burketts.
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25 years later Shane meets Eileen at the hospital. He thinks about the Burkett murder going live over the internet and how later on Corey was able to help bring down corrupt governments and businesses later in his career as a whistle blower. Eddie has remarried, his kids Dan and Alexa are successfully employed. Lily has given birth to a baby she names Maya. |
18 years later Kierce is shown going into a hospital. He and Eddie meet an adult Lily who has just given birth to a daughter she will name Maya. |