Super Short Summary

Isabelle Drake, an insomniac, teams up with true crime podcaster Waylon Spencer to investigate her son Mason's kidnapping a year prior, only to question everyone's culpability, including her own, as she navigates her fraught memories and the traumatic death of her sister in childhood. All the Dangerous Things depicts emotional abuse, miscarriage, postpartum psychosis, and child death, and references drug abuse and suicide.