Kidnapping Mystery

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

One year after her mother’s death, a woman prepares to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Digging through a trunk in the attic, looking for keepsakes for the occasion, she discovers photographs that call into question everything she believed about her life. The truth is a different story—one of a little girl in danger, a lie, and a mother’s love so fierce it led her to do the unimaginable.

Auf dem Weg zur Uni wird die Studentin Enja von einem Unbekannten vom Fahrrad gerissen und verschleppt. Jonas Starck von der Lübecker Kriminalpolizei ermittelt im Umfeld der Vermissten und schnell trifft ihn eine grausame Erkenntnis: Er ist dem Täter vor vielen Jahren bereits begegnet. Der Mann ist extrem kaltblütig und brutal. Während eine Soko unter Hochdruck ermittelt, versucht Enja auf eigene Faust aus den Fängen ihres Entführers zu entfliehen.

Alain Delambre, ex direttore delle risorse umane, ha cinquantasette anni, gli ultimi quattro passati come disoccupato, accettando lavoretti malpagati e in condizioni umilianti. Quando il destino sembra offrirgli una nuova possibilità - un lavoro nel suo campo, ben pagato e gratificante - Alain è disposto a tutto. Anche a degradarsi agli occhi della moglie e delle figlie, e persino a partecipare all'ultima prova di reclutamento: un gioco di ruolo che simuli una presa di ostaggi. Ma è un gioco in cui i dadi sono truccati...

In front of a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, a pop star is kidnapped by a new vigilante group called the Nomen. They leave behind a chilling manifesto leveled against the cult of celebrity, and the names of forty-nine other rising stars about to disappear forever. Bestselling author Fiona Hart is on the list.

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.

Somewhere on the flat Kansas landscape, a school bus carrying 8 deaf schoolgirls and their teachers brakes suddenly. Waiting are 3 ruthless men, just escaped from prison. And now, the girls are their hostages. Convicted killer Lou Handy promises that he and his crew will kill a girl each hour unless the FBI, led by negotiator Arthur Potter, cuts a deal to avoid the bloodbath.

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.

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.

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.

전국을 뒤흔든 전대미문의 유괴사건, 그 시작과 끝을 쫓는 압도적 미스터리 주간문춘 미스터리 베스트 2위 | 아마존 일본, 기노쿠니야 서점 베스트셀러 2020 '이 미스터리가 대단하다!' 선정 | 2020 '미스터리가 읽고 싶다' 선정 10월의 어느 오후, 도쿄 아사쿠사에서 유괴사건이 발생한다. 여섯 살짜리 남자아이가 하루아침에 사라진 것이다. 다음 날 범인은 전화로 50만 엔의 몸값을 요구한다. 경찰은 범인의 목소리를 최초로 공개하고 역탐지를 하는 등 전례 없는 수사를 펼치지만, 빗발치는 시민들의 신고와 장난 전화에 오히려 발목을 잡힌다.

Die junge Pharmareferentin Jana Briggs erwacht gefesselt und geknebelt. Wer hat sie entführt und warum? Vielleicht, weil sie nicht nur teure Fracht sondern auch geheimes Wissen mit sich führte? Kann sie sich befreien? Ole van Leeuwen wartet dringend auf eine wertvolle Lieferung. Als diese bei ihm eintrifft, stellt sich heraus, dass die Ware durch einen Code gesichert ist, den nur eine junge Frau kennt. Ole lässt nichts unversucht sie zu finden und geht über Leichen. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich!