Kidnapping Thriller

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.

Cross. Now streaming on Prime Video. Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate...

Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister's disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At least until he pauses to answer a text and Ariana disappears. Wracked with guilt and determined to find answers, Alex teams up with an unlikely ally at the police department.

Twenty years ago, Nicole's twins disappeared without a trace. Despite her pleas of innocence, Nicole was convicted. Now she's out. And she's finally confessed. But for true crime podcast host Cristy Ward, the story doesn't add up. Having worked on the case as a young reporter, Cristy can't help but wonder whether Nicole is the villain everyone believes her to be.

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.

Special Agent Maya Gray 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. Case three has just landed, and the clock is ticking. The suspect, a copycat of the Moonlight Killer, seems to be using sophisticated audio equipment to stay one step ahead of his victims - and Maya herself could be next.

Jason Bourne faces an impossible choice in this non-stop suspense thriller, written by a New York Times bestselling author. Jason Bourne has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts...

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.

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...

Mean Streak: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its...

Manchester, England 1965. Little Kathy Openshaw is waiting in the car, with only her toy doll for company, while her mother Connie visits close friends Myra and Ian. But when Connie returns to the car, Kathy has vanished. Instantly, she thinks of the news reports of the children who have gone missing from the area. Parents everywhere are worried sick. Connie is struck with terror: What kind of mother leaves their child alone, when a kidnapper is on the loose? Listen to this pulse-pounding, heart-wrenching, and unforgettable story.

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...

Senators Andy Thompson and Hunt Wagner lead the way in a spirited debate on a new health care bill and whether or not to stop President Robinson and Secretary Von Schumann from sending troops to Botswana. A real adventure begins when Senator Thompson is kidnapped and Brian Travors, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, is suspected of being involved. Senators Hunt Wagner and Darius Clemens head a committee hearing to get to the truth. President Robinson suffers a heart attack and Vice President Barry Newman takes over temporarily.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and bring her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore...

The International Peace Ascent is the brainchild of billionaire Sebastian Plank: Recruit a global team of young climbers and film an inspiring, world-uniting documentary. The adventure begins when fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello and his mountaineer mother are helicoptered to a remote base camp in the Hindu Kush Mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When the camp is attacked and his mother taken, Peak has no choice but to track down the perpetrators to try to save her.

Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Chance was revived—and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle. But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met.

When a middle-aged man returns to a small town claiming to be a teenager abducted by a cult 30 years prior, a former detective steps out of retirement to uncover the truth. But picking at old wounds tends to make them bleed. After a scholarly 14-year-old girl vanishes on Halloween night, uncompromising yet isolated private investigator Arden Briar dives deep into the Georgia underground to find the victim. Faced with overwhelming odds, Arden enlists the help of the victim’s damaged father, a veteran with a short fuse. Will Arden’s temporary alliance be the solution or her downfall?

El Paso, Texas, is a battleground. It's an open market for Mexican drug cartels to sell their wares. It's also a destination for teens looking for fun. Venice Alexander's 14-year-old son Roman was there on a school trip. Now, he and a fellow student have vanished without a trace. Assuming the kidnapping is retaliation for his past incursions against Mexico's underworld, Jonathan Grave leads his covert operatives to rescue their teammate's son. But the trail Jonathan follows leads him down unexpected paths, where he ends up in the crossfire of a deadly vendetta.

When a young woman goes missing from Jesus College, Oxford, DS Josie Masters is plunged into a world of panic as fear grips the city. Along with Thames Valley Police’s newest recruit, the handsome DS Pryce, Josie must act fast - and when two more students disappear from Oriel and Somerville colleges, she realises the killer is sending her a deadly message in a cruel game of cat and mouse. This time, the case is personal - but who is the perpetrator?

A young girl found stranded on a raft off the coast of Baja California is marked for death by a violent gang. Shunned by locals for fear of retribution, ex-pat Chase Grant is unable to leave the girl to her fate. But the girl isn’t the only one with secrets, and Grant’s past will be thrust into the present as it threatens to upend the second chance he was given with his family.