Kidnapping Mystery

DCI Warren Jones is deep into the investigation into an apparent murder-suicide when another case is thrust onto his desk. Winnie Palmer, missing for two months, has been found dead, her body stripped and propped against a tree in the woods. Two cases are more than enough to handle—but things get even harder for the team when they realise the cases might be linked. And when a third suspicious death is added to the pile, it raises a horrible question. Is there a serial killer on the loose?

London 1900: Matilda Gray ist Lehrerin an einer Mädchenschule und führt das Leben einer unabhängigen Frau. Als ihre Lieblingsschülerin Laura nicht mehr zum Unterricht erscheint, ahnt Matilda, dass diese in Gefahr ist. Zu plötzlich ist ihr Verschwinden, zu fadenscheinig sind die Begründungen des Vormunds. Eine verschlüsselte Botschaft, die ihr Laura auf einer Postkarte schickt, bringt Matilda auf die Spur des Mädchens. Ihre Suche führt sie zu dem Historiker Stephen Fleming und mit ihm zu einem jahrhundertealten Geheimnis, tief hinein in die verborgensten Winkel der Stadt.

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.

Christina must try and survive the torture methods of man and demons if she wants to see her beautiful girls again. The FBI is hunting him to save her and a local detective must hide his connection while tracking her down. His fight is with her mother and a past wrapped around the unknown killer. Will he beat the FBI in saving her ensuring his dream of becoming Chief in the small town or does the killer get to him first?

Wölfe mitten in Rom? Mich beschlich ein schrecklicher Verdacht, wer dahinterstecken könnte, als Bill Conollys Sohn Johnny im Urlaub von den Bestien entführt wurde. Suko und ich machten uns gemeinsam mit unserer Wolfsfreundin Nadine Berger für den Showdown mitten auf dem Petersplatz bereit. Doch niemand konnte erahnen, welches Drama sich dort abspielen würde.

The disappearances of two girls within the span of a week thrusts a small town into panic.

As a new detective for the local police force, Carolina takes on a case for a young girl who mysteriously vanished. Though the kidnapping should be open and shut, Carolina struggles to find those responsible. Soon, she traces the culprit to a dangerous poker ring, run by men who don’t play by the rules. Carolina gambles with her own life to solve the case.

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.

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.

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.

She lives in a utopian town, where nothing bad ever happens. But when officers Zachary Leebow and Annalise Baker are invited to join a new special-task team, the Smoky Mountain Investigative Force, their lives become even more intertwined than before. With everything around them changing and an unnamed body on their hands, they must decipher the clues to their individual cases, before kidnapping turns into murder.

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.

In this first installment, on a typical day in Anna's somewhat-perfect life, a book-signing event turns her world upside down. Is it a case of mistaken identity or was she just being paranoid? After being stalked for weeks, Anna quickly finds herself literally "tied up", fighting for her life, and desperate to get back home to her cats; all while unwittingly falling in love with the detective who was trying to save her. How she finds her way out of this mess is anyone's guess!

The constant threat of terrorism has left London under round-the-clock surveillance and in the tightening grip of privatised security firms. Journalist Antonia Conti suspects one such organisation—GRM—not only of being behind several women’s disappearances, but of financing the widespread violence it claims to fight. When a gang of hitmen use rampant state surveillance to track Antonia down, she narrowly escapes with her life. But then one of them turns up dead—covered in her DNA—and Antonia finds herself the prime suspect in his murder.

One phone call. Two lives. Their darkest secrets. Lana needs to sell a holiday, fast. Stuck in Tenerife, in a dead end job, she never expected a response quite like Liam’s. Thousands of miles away a phone rings. Liam never intended to pick up - he’s too busy choosing the quickest way to die. But at least someone should know the truth before he goes, even if that someone is a stranger. As time runs out both are drawn to the other, expressing thoughts they never imagined they would share. When you’re about to die, will your secrets even matter?

Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished - bless her hell-raising heart - Oliver jumps parole. With a sketchy teen and an abandoned dog, he hits the blacktop to find her. On the road and on the run from a vengeful Russian drug dealer, Oliver finds himself on a trip across America and into his own past, fueled by fumes from a Ford F-250 and a reason to live.

Haunted by a past crime and a past lover, a psychoanalyst tries to protect his daughter from his mistakes—but at what cost? “This dazzling gothic-tinged thriller takes us deep into a labyrinth of secrets, lies, and deceptions.”—Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will ...

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When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

Moskau 1956: Den ehemaligen MGB-Offizier Leo Demidow holt die Vergangenheit ein. Eine seiner Adoptivtöchter wird gekidnappt...