Love thrives in hiding. Crowded by encroaching dangers, Anneliese confronts a range of hurdles in The Crooked Little Pieces: Volume 5: a dive into unstopping problems. As Isabel disdains a figure from her past, the dastardly Charles Anthony keeps making his psychiatrist miserable – to nobody’s avail. Susanna stumbles amidst frayed attempts to get her youth back; toying with an unfazed Christopher. Dazed Isabel once more fears going off the tracks. With odds stacked stubbornly against her, Anneliese shuns sin in an unprecedented downward spiral of events. Undying pining pins her sister to inaction. Culminations menace characters unable to defy denial in this fifth season of the novelised tv series: a dose of episodes that keep us on the edge.