Kidnapping Mystery

Vom Dienst suspendiert, will der Spezialist für Vermisstenfälle mit seinen Kindern Urlaub an der Küste von Norfolk machen. Vier Teenager sind aus einer Wohnwagensiedlung verschwunden, nachdem sie den Anweisungen auf einem alten Kassettenplayer gefolgt sind. Ihre Zeit läuft ab, ihnen droht ein grausames Schicksal, wenn man den Spuren nicht folgt, die der Kidnapper hinterlegt hat.

10 August, 2003, the hottest day ever in the UK, ten-year-old Molly Parker disappears without a trace in North Wales. Despite his relentless efforts, DI Bill Lennox has to release his prime suspect, Jim Roper, for lack of evidence. Still obsessed with the case, Bill is finally suspended, demoted and forced to leave. Twenty years on, another young girl is kidnapped but escapes, casting suspicion once again on Roper. But now the investigator is Bill’s niece, DI Barbara Forster. Roper is re-arrested but another girl vanishes ... the race is on to find her.

Eine Serie perfekt inszenierter Entführungen bekannter Personen hält England in Atem und die Ermittler Bush und Grandison kommen nicht voran. Jetzt sollen sie das jüngste Opfer des Kidnappers "Trader", den Erzbischof von Salisbury, befreien – ohne öffentliches Aufsehen. Diskret sollen auch die Nachforschungen von Madame Blanche verlaufen, denn Mrs. Rainbird ist sich nicht sicher, ob der uneheliche Sohn ihrer verstorbenen Schwester Harriet und einzige Erbe ihres beträchtlichen Vermögens, auch ausreichend Seriosität für die gediegene Familie mitbringt.

When Alison Osman takes her children on a trip to Cadbury World, she thinks their squabbling is her worst problem. But when she turns to find them gone, she's plunged into every mother's worst nightmare. And then the message arrives, telling Alison she has three days to choose one of her children. Detective Inspector Zoe Finch and her team need to find answers, and fast. Why is Alison's police officer husband behaving suspiciously? If the children's father died in a climbing accident, why was there no body?

When Ray Gordon was kicked off the force for taking the law into his own hands one too many times, he lost everything: the power and authority he craved... and worse, his family. Since then, Ray has spent his days drowning in whiskey, consumed by regret and self-pity. He’s a man who has given up... until a chilling message shatters his downward spiral: MEGAN IS MISSING. Everything changes in an instant. As Ray begins the desperate search for his daughter, he’s forced to confront the shadows of his past...

Wenn dein schlimmster Albtraum wahr wird. Die alleinerziehende Libby und ihr dreijähriger Sohn Ethan machen zum ersten Mal Urlaub in einem Luxus-Resort, um sich für die vergangenen schwierigen Jahre zu belohnen. Doch Libby kann sich nur schlecht entspannen: Sobald Ethan aus ihrem Blickfeld verschwindet, gerät sie in Panik. Ihre Sorge ist berechtigt – denn sie hat ein Geheimnis, das sie mit niemandem teilen kann. Als Ethan eines Abends in einem Fahrstuhl spielt und sich die Türen zu Libbys Entsetzen plötzlich schließen, beginnt der Kampf einer Mutter um das geliebte Kind.

Du bist gefangen. Doch dein Entführer liegt im Koma. Und deine Zeit läuft ab. In Heidelberg verschwinden Menschen. Die Hoffnung, sie lebend wiederzusehen, sinkt von Tag zu Tag. Als Kommissar Paul Maertens endlich eine Spur zum Entführer findet, kommt es bei der Festnahme zu einem fatalen Unfall. Der Täter fällt ins Wachkoma, und seine Opfer scheinen verloren. Um sie zu retten, bleibt Maertens nur eine Chance: Der berühmte Neurologe Dr. Theo Linde hat eine Methode entwickelt, mit der er die Gedanken von Komapatienten lesen kann.

In the rugged terrain of late 1800s Texas, where justice is as untamed as the land, one man stands against the chaos. Pharaoh Smith, a seasoned Texas Ranger with a no-nonsense approach, embarks on a relentless mission in this heart-pounding installment of the Pharaoh Smith, Texas Ranger series. The very air around them carries the weight of desperation as 16-year-old Anna Hinch is kidnapped by the ruthless Comanche warrior, Blood Eye. With a gang comprising Mexicans, Blacks, and Whites, Blood Eye is a force to be reckoned with.

An idyllic ski resort conceals a sinister secret… In the last two years, a dozen people have been taken. Only a few survived. The victims have only one commonality. Each of them had visited the resort before the abduction. Julian Mercer and his team are hired to investigate the town and identify the kidnapper. But while building their profile, a young girl is taken. The mother is distraught. But is this an act of the serial kidnapper or a copycat? Nothing is as it seems. But Mercer doesn’t have time to figure out the finer details. The kidnapped girl isn’t well.

An unputdownable Small Town Kidnapping Mystery Boxset with a brilliant twist! When a child disappears from a winter hiking trip in the woods, a retired detective is forced to confront the past he thought he'd left behind. When a child disappears from a winter hiking trip in the woods, local police believe the child wandered off and got lost. Extensive search parties return from the woods empty-handed. The child has vanished into thin air. No footprints in the snow. Nothing.

Nicole Stewart moved to Twin Lakes, Minnesota, to give her seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, an idyllic childhood. Surrounded by a good community, friends, and family, it was the perfect place to raise her daughter. But when Rachel is abducted at a park, the veil on the ideal community is pulled back. As mysterious packages and cryptic messages arrive at Nicole’s doorstep, she is resolved to solve the kidnapper’s mystery. And in this neighborhood, everyone is a suspect.

When Maddie met Nora, their friendship felt as easy as breathing. And when Nora disappeared, all the air went with her. Without her best friend, Maddie’s life became impossible. Ten years later, Nora is still missing and Maddie is still searching. People have been questioned. People have even been accused. But no one has managed to find Nora. Then, in the same spot where Nora went missing, the murdered body of Nora’s little sister is found. Convinced this is no coincidence, Maddie resolves to uncover the killer and find Nora – dead or alive.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

A masterful, inventive thriller from a remarkably assured and always surprising young writer. Perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist is at his wit's end. Recently kicked out of their shared apartment by his girlfriend, he's left with little more than a half bust of Nietzsche's head and the...

Following an argument with her British boyfriend, Chinese student Min Li is abducted whilst walking the dark streets of picturesque Stratford-upon-Avon alone. Trapped in a dark pit, Min is at the mercy of her captor. Detective Inspector Will Jackman is tasked with solving the case and in his search for answers discovers that the truth is buried deeper than he ever expected. But, as another student vanishes and Min grows ever weaker, time is running out.

Ein verlassenes Waisenhaus, ein grausames Geheimnis Vermont, 1968: An einem glühend heißen Sommertag verschwindet der neunjährige Tommy spurlos aus Coram House , einem Waisenhaus am Lake Champlain. Auch fünfzig Jahre später ist sein Verschwinden immer noch ungeklärt. Für Alex Kelley, eine angeschlagene True-Crime-Autorin, scheint der Auftrag, über das Waisenhaus zu schreiben, die perfekte Gelegenheit, sich aus ihrer beruflichen Krise zu befreien. Im winterlichen Vermont taucht sie tief ein in die Transkripte und Originaldokumente aus dieser Zeit.

FBI-agent Alex Cross weet dat het menens is wanneer hij ontdekt dat de Wolf zijn slachtoffers verhandelt als slaven, op bestelling van rijke en vooraanstaande mannen. Lukt het hem om de mannen en vrouwen uit de klauwen van de Wolf te redden? Het is het negende deel in de Alex Cross-reeks van James Patterson, waar Alex het moet opnemen tegen misschien wel de gevaarlijkste misdadiger uit zijn carrière.

Een jonge moeder staat te pinnen in de Westerstraat wanneer ze wordt gebeld. Als ze zich even later weer omdraait, is haar kinderwagen verdwenen. Commissaris Anne Kramer, chef Recherche Amsterdam, wordt ingeschakeld om de baby terug te vinden. Het zal een van de meest emotionele zaken uit haar carrière worden.

Она пропала одиннадцать лет назад. Каждый год ее мать в день рождения дочери получала письмо: «Вы никогда больше не увидитесь». Одиннадцать лет мало кто верил, что она жива. И вот она вернулась. Максим Монсо — по профессии жандарм, по образованию синерголог, специалист по невербальным коммуникациям, по происхождению воспитанник ненавистной ему секты, воспоминания о которой не отпускают его по сей день, — участвует в расследовании, и история преступления, которая постепенно складывается у жандармерии Анси, страшна и невнятна.

Emma and I did everything together—including getting kidnapped. As teenagers, we were both taken but only I survived. I promised myself that I would tell my story, and Emma's story, when the time was right. Life is good. I have a home, a dog, and a woman who loves me—but I'm a complete fraud. Worse still, someone knows it. One way or another, I'll find the person who is threatening me.