Kidnapping Mystery

From the bestselling author of Alone and The Killing Hour comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.… When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of...

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of...

Tout débute par la mystérieuse disparition d'une lycéenne, dans une sinistre bourgade située en bordure d'une forêt aussi impressionnante qu'inquiétante L'inspectrice Paula Beyer, est envoyée au cœur de la petite ville allemande de Freidorf pour élucider cette alarmante disparition.

A New York Times bestseller! Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession... Art history professor James Qatar’s hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he was all alone he’d...

Op een prachtig strand op Hawaï verdwijnt een supermodel tijdens een fotoshoot. Haar familie krijgt een angstaanjagend telefoontje van de dader, die bovendien niet van plan lijkt te stoppen. Er valt immers veel geld te verdienen met de gruweldaden. Wanneer journalist Ben Hawkins naar Hawaï reist namens de aangeslagen familie, kan hij niet weten dat zijn geweten zo op de proef gesteld zal worden door de moordlustige dader. Sluit hij een deal met de duivel voor zijn eigen gewin?

An ambitious reporter haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan follows an FBI tip to investigate the mysterious disappearance -- and likely murder -- of a former Marine. Dawson Scott is a haunted man. A well-respected journalist recently returned from an assignment in Afghanistan, he's...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a young mother and a murder suspect must solve a corruption case while on the run from a dangerous manhunt. Honor Gillette discovers Lee Coburn in her yard–the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he...

In the busy town center of Canterbury, a woman and a young boy are snatched from the street. A few miles away, a man stands on the edge of a viaduct ready to throw himself off. Sergeant Shaun Carter, a police negotiator, is trying to talk him down, but he dare not get too close. This man is the only person who has the answers needed to find the missing. These two events will have consequences for everyone they touch. And Shaun Carter is forced to make heartbreaking choices as he faces a vicious criminal network. As the situation spirals out of control, Shaun asks for help.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years. According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: If she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov, but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.

In the Maya Gray series (which begins with book one, Girl One: Murder) FBI Special Agent Maya Gray, 39, has seen it all. She’s one of BAU’s rising stars and the go-to agent for hard-to-crack serial cases. When she receives a handwritten postcard promising to release 12 kidnapped women if she will solve 12 cold cases, she assumes it’s a hoax. Until the note mentions that, among the captives, is her missing sister. Maya, shaken, is forced to take it seriously.

An almost 20-year-old unsolved murder from Florida’s pot-hauling days gets Hannah Smith’s attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state’s earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah’s friends and neighbors in...

DS Lucas Walker is off duty. He's supposed to be showing his little sister Grace the Australian outback, on her visit from Boston, but instead they're headed out bush- where Walker's cousin has been mining for boulder opal. Something seemed off when Walker heard that Blair wanted to get out of Kanpara, so he and Grace are en route to bring him home to Caloodie. But Kanpara is in Channel Country, and a major flood is on the way.

Christina Lattimore’s family is wealthy and powerful. She attends the best private high school. Yet Christina feels trapped by her family’s expectations. Frustrated and angry at her situation, she pays little attention when a strange car follows her home one night. Its headlights are the last thing she remembers until she wakes up in captivity. Christina is terrified when she realizes kidnappers are holding her for ransom. But after her rescue, she faces an even greater shock. Her family thinks she was an accomplice in her own kidnapping! Can she convince them of her innocence?

A kidnapped girl survived twelve nightmarish years. Now she's safely back home . . . or is she? Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after escaping her kidnappers—but as...

When silence falls, who will hear their cries? The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the outline of a doll carved into the victim’s skin. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are struggling to find leads in the case until a doll made of skin is found nestled beside an abandoned baby. After another young woman is found butchered, Luc and Ava realise the babydoll killer is playing a horrifying game. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes again.

Detective Rose has worked on difficult cases before, but this abduction is unique. No evidence. No witnesses. No leads. It’s a nightmare scenario for any law enforcement officer. Unsure of why the family was targeted, Rose races against the clock to recover the missing child before the kidnapper strikes again, a scenario Rose is desperate to stop.

When Emma Lawson, the youngest lead government-ethics investigator in California's capital, takes a day off to help her best friend, Kate, prepare for the opening of her new preschool, the morning takes a shocking turn. The school's most high-profile enrollee - Vivian Lange, the governor's granddaughter - is kidnapped at the same time Kate's teenage son, Luke, goes missing.

With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and the pulse rate—higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing...

Secrets unravel and danger mounts as Theresa's search for her missing twins leads her straight into the shadows of her own dark history. When twins Ashley and Sarah disappear, their mother Theresa's world shatters. Guided by Detective Hal, clues eerily point to her past lover—the twins' father. Plunged into a dark maze with enemies lurking at every turn, can Theresa's fierce love bring her daughters back from a perilous fate? Dive into a pulse-pounding tale of love, betrayal, and suspense.

It's been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother's caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help. Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened. And to complicate matters further, Zoe must also confront the ex-boyfriend she betrayed many years before.