Kidnapping Thriller

When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird's cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she's found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York. But then the unthinkable happens: Her boy vanishes. Local law enforcement dismisses the 13-year-old as a runaway, but Laney knows better.

Ex-FBI agent Cody O'Brien lives a quiet life in Northern California. Self-sufficient and content, she provides a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan. But all of that is shattered when Ryan is kidnapped is broad daylight. Cody's greatest fear is knowing the true motive behind the abduction. For her entire life is a lie - one so easily exposed, and so very dangerous. A woman of hard-earned courage, she escaped the killers responsible for her husband's murder and learned to start over. Failed by the Witness Protection Program, she trusts only herself to save her son.

Le nouveau thriller du lauréat 2021 du Prix Bête noire des libraires. Elle pensait lui avoir échappé, il ne l'a jamais oubliée.

When two teenage girls vanish without a trace from an educational retreat at Chidlow House in Lincolnshire, the students and teachers are put on high alert. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart questions everyone who came into contact with the two girls, Cressida and Natasha, in the days leading up to their disappearance. Stories of Chidlow House being haunted abound, but Hart - still coming to terms with the suspicious circumstances surrounding the tragic loss of her own family - knows that while the house might be otherworldly, the crime is grimly real.

For two years, Eddie Donagan was on track to become the greatest Red Sox pitcher of all time. Then one day, without warning, he went from unhittable to ineffective - forcing him to drop out of the Majors before he even hit his prime. Attorney Brady Coyne met Donagan before he turned pro, and stays friends with him even as the faded star drifts into depression, disappearing from his wife and child for days at a time. Finally, the Donagans are thrown into crisis - but it isn't Eddie's disappearance that causes it. It's his son's.

La caparbia Angelica Cynster è certa che riconoscerà a prima vista l'uomo destinato a diventare suo marito. Quando i suoi occhi incontrano quelli di un misterioso nobiluomo, capisce senza ombra di dubbio che lui è quello giusto. Ma presto il suo cuore batterà forte per il motivo sbagliato: la sua anima gemella in realtà ha deciso di rapirla. L'uomo misterioso in verità è l'ottavo conte di Glencrae e non ha scelta, ha dovuto rapire Angelica, l'unica delle sorelle Cynster con cui non ha mai voluto invischiarsi.

A heart-stopping, gripping thriller for fans of C. L. Taylor, Karin Slaughter and Linwood Barclay On the tenth anniversary of her daughter Autumn's abduction, Francine receives an anonymous note containing just five words: I KNOW WHERE SHE IS When a young woman approaches her the next day...

Haunted by her brother's brutal murder, FBI Agent Sidney Stone races against time to unravel a chilling wave of child abductions that mirror her own traumatic past, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she confronts both ruthless criminals and her own demons. FBI Agent Sidney Stone has dedicated her life to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, determined to prevent others from suffering the same fate as her kid brother, Ben. They were abducted when she was 16 and he seven. He was killed while she was let go.

"An original thriller filled with empathy." —Sarah Bailey, author of The Housemate The Kelly family has always been trouble When a fire in a remote trailer park community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly’s mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after...

Salem is a private investigator hired to find a young girl abducted from her school in the middle of the school day. Local authorities have had zero leads and no good suspects for months and have hit a dead-end. Salem has his own theory, but it leads down a much darker path than he anything the local police could imagine or are equipped to deal with. His investigation is nearly cut short before it could really get underway, when on his first night in town, he finds himself trapped at the beginning of a murder investigation; the killer working very hard to make sure he's the prime suspect.

After revealing a big secret, Calamity James is on the outs with the one person she can always rely on: her sister. As the Red River Founders Celebration approaches, descendants of the town’s original settlers are mysteriously targeted for murder, and Cal hunts down a ghost with a grudge.

En laddad och tät thriller om hämnd, som rör sig från New Yorks lyxiga finanskvarter till den svenska landsbygdsidyllen - som är långt ifrån så fridfull som den verkar. "Arvsynd" är fjärde, fristående delen i Veronica Sjöstrands serie om den egensinniga gärningsmannaprofileraren Althea Molin. Gillar du starka kvinnliga karaktärer och internationell spänning på hög nivå så är det här något för dig! I höst släpps ytterligare tre delar i serien: "Änglalik", "Kretsen" och "Ensamvarg". "Kretsen" nominerades till bästa svenska kriminalroman 2009.

What does it take to change the world? The “epic adventure” (Booklist) of a band of unlikely heroes on a quest to save one innocent life who may end up saving us all. For decades, Judge Margot Burr-Nadir has worked tirelessly, case by case, to administer justice from the federal bench of the...

Investigative consultant Sherry Moore is blind and stunningly beautiful, with the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse. A head injury at age five left her without sight and prevented her from remembering her past. When Sherry...

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.

This bundle includes two audiobooks: The Vanishing of the Georgia Rose and Kidnapped.

Prague. Playing by her own rules has forced Sharka Lewis to start over. Despite fleeing her old life, the law firm investigator's new home can't keep her past at bay. Threatened by her former boss, the only way she can protect her secrets is to locate the dangerous man's kidnapped daughter. Reluctantly partnering up with a dubious contact, Sharka discovers her employer's daughter may have information others would kill to conceal. When she realizes the trap has been set, the investigator has no choice but to walk in and fight her way out....

Wendi Wise is a troubled young woman who snorts her breakfast through a straw and spends more time in rehab than in the real world. Her life is seemingly out of control. But now she has a plan. That plan involves a sharp set of butcher knives. She's going back to where all of her troubles began...Flocksdale. Wendi was lured away from a local skating rink, at the age of 13, and held captive in a place she calls The House of Horrors. Dumped off blindfolded on the side of a dirt road, Wendi soon discovered that she was addicted to the drugs they fed her while she was captive.

The disappearances of multiple young girls within days of one another thrust a small town into a panic. After a child is abducted at a local supermarket, Macy, an uncompromising yet isolated detective, dives deep into the secrets of the small town where nothing is as it seems. It’s only a matter of time before the kidnapper strikes again, and the sands of the hourglass have already started sifting away. After Seattle PD's homicide unit fails to stop the killing of young runaway girls, undercover VICE officer Susan "Susie Q" Quinton is requested to assist on the case.

This audiobook features two stories: Buried Truth and Stolen. In Buried Truth, a four-year-old girl's abduction appears to be linked to a 30-year-old case. In Stolen, a political movement and a young girl's abduction splits and breaks trust in Barta, a small town in North Dakota.