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Untraceable is a wonderful piece of fiction rooted in the recent history of Russia's state assassinations, especially the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. Professor Kalitin is a ruthless, narcissistic chemist who has developed an untraceable, extremely lethal poison called Neophyte while working in a secret city on an island in the Russian far east. When the Soviet Union collapses, he defects and is given a new identity in Germany.

When Matt Armstrong learns that his sister has been murdered, he returns to London to find out what happened. Visiting the place where his sister’s corpse was found, Matt struggles to uncover any information. But when he learns that a camera might have been used to record the killing, he becomes a man on a mission. Together with his former girlfriend, Matt chases down every scant lead, finding one dead end after another. Then an anonymous tip changes everything he thought he knew about his sister’s life—and how it ended.

Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall’s biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school—until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Suddenly, she’s reeling from the news that her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, and her scientist dad has gone MIA. At the same time, she has to navigate an underfunded school in the city, suffering the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including the cute boy who’s an old family friend.

Nature girl, Grace, has lived in the Smoky Mountains all her life, patrolling the wilderness with her father who taught her about wildlife, tracking, and survival. When her forest ranger father goes missing on a routine patrol, Grace refuses to believe he's dead and fights the town authorities, tribal officials, and nature to find him. One day, while out tracking clues, Grace is rescued from danger by Mo, a hot guy with an intoxicating accent and a secret.

Profesorul Kalitin este un chimist sovietic fără scrupule, obsedat de crearea unei otrăvi mortale, care să fie imposibil de depistat și fără antidot. Când înțelege câți oameni mor din cauza lui, este copleșit de vinovăție, iar la destrămarea URSS fuge în Vest. Deși primește o nouă identitate, e deconspirat și implicat în ancheta asupra uciderii a doi agenți occidentali. Iar pe urmele sale pornesc doi ucigași din forțele speciale, care vor să-i administreze chiar otrava creată de el.