Kidnapping Mystery

Una mattina di aprile del 1978, a Milano, Sebastiano, un bambino di soli cinque mesi, scompare nel nulla. Sua madre Anna ha accettato l'aiuto di una donna che si è presentata col nome di Laura e si è offerta di comprare dei vestitini per il neonato. La famiglia di Anna fatica a tirare avanti, ha bisogno della generosità degli altri e ogni sostegno è ben accetto. Ma basta un attimo, e tutto cambia. Laura e Sebastiano, infatti, svaniscono. Le indagini sul rapimento del minore non portano a nulla. Il caso viene archiviato, l'esistenza di Anna e del marito Gianni diventa un inferno.

These tales aren’t the dramatic re-enactments of kidnappings, pieced together from sloppy clues that you’d hear about on the news or Unsolved Mysteries. Be it human, alien, ghost, or monster perpetrator, this collection of weird and frightening disappearances, assembled from true reports, proves unexplainable kidnappings happen more than we like to admit - and no one knows what really happened.

Connor Reeves ist erst 14 Jahre alt, als er für eine weltweit agierende Bodyguard-Agentur akquiriert wird. Und bereits sein allererster Auftrag hat es in sich: Er soll keine Geringere als Alicia Rosa Mendez beschützen – die Tochter des amerikanischen Präsidenten! Schon bald gerät Alicia in große Gefahr und Connor muss unter Beweis stellen, dass er zu Recht für diese heikle Mission ausgewählt wurde.

“Psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It’s that kind of book.” —Jeffery Deaver For years, Sarah Farber and her best friend, Jennifer, kept what they called the Never List: a list of actions to be avoided at all costs, for safety’s sake...

Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong--abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family. Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son--until now. Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?

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

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.

Silas faces the most challenging case of his career at Discreet Corporate Security Services. He has seven days to rescue five oil workers kidnapped in a remote area of Saudi Arabia. Using his expertise as a former intelligence operative, Silas quickly brings together a highly skilled rescue team of four men and one woman—each with a complicated past—who are forced to confront their past as they embark on a high-risk mission that threatens their future.

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.

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the...

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.

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?

DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorizing Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all-time high. Now a girl has gone missing – and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie closes in on the truth, she realizes that the three cases might be connected. But with every second she spends investigating, the clock ticks on for the missing girl, trapped in a living death...

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.

A teen's suicide leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Details about the case remind Sam Hopewell, a local investigative journalist, of what happened to his older cousin back in the ‘90s. Sam prepares to confront his darkest memories, but if he can’t overcome his past, more innocent lives might be taken. Renowned Miami detective Anna Dedrick returns to her rural birthplace with hopes of leaving behind the vices of the big city. That dream shatters when the town’s pride—an African-American child prodigy—goes missing.

Samantha Moore, eine College-Studentin aus Queens, ist mit ihrem Freund auf dem Weg nach Kanada, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen, als sie aus einem einsamen Motel in Vermont verschwindet. Bald wird klar, dass der Fall Moore nur einer von vielen seltsamen Vorfällen ist, die sich in den abgelegenen Wäldern von Vermont ereignen. Eine neue, unheilvolle Entdeckung in dem Fall ruft die FBI-Agentin Jill McDade auf den Plan, und wieder einmal kreuzen sich ihre und Ray Wyatts Wege.

Eine düstere Klinik. Zwei vermisste Frauen. Ein Albtraum, der nie endet. Krankenschwester Ida ist beliebt auf der Station 22. Ihre Patientinnen vertrauen ihr blind – bis eine von ihnen verschwindet. Während alle von Flucht sprechen, bohrt sich ein brutaler Verdacht in Idas Bewusstsein. Sie selbst wurde als Kind entführt und kehrte mit ausgelöschtem Gedächtnis zurück. Als eine zweite Frau verschwindet, wird es zur grausamen Gewissheit: Idas Peiniger hat sie aufgespürt.

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.

"En las laberínticas calles de Granada, donde el pasado nunca duerme, un joven desaparece sin dejar rastro… y las sombras comienzan a moverse." Cuando Sergio Muñoz, un profesor de instituto y el hijo de Catalina, empresaria y la mejor amiga de Isabel Arnáez, desaparece sin dejar rastro, las sospechas empiezan a envolver a todos los que le rodean. Isabel, propietaria de las bodegas Uriarte y ahora empleadora de Lobo y Delgado, les encomienda encontrarlo cuando la policía se muestra incapaz de avanzar.