Kidnapping Thriller

“Deliciously vicious and unsettlingly hilarious, Cruelty Free is a nasty, thrilling Hollywood take-down for the ages.” —JENNIFER THORNE, author of Diavola A disgraced movie star returns to Hollywood 10 years after the kidnapping of her young daughter intent on seeking revenge, for fans of...

Dr. Fred Abel ist von seiner lebensgefährlichen Verletzung genesen, und die ersten Fälle halten ihn schon wieder in Atem. Vor allem aber freut er sich darauf, seine Zwillinge aus einer lang vergangenen "karibischen Affäre" in Berlin zu begrüßen. Doch kaum sind die Jugendlichen da, werden sie entführt. Gibt es einen rassistischen Hintergrund? Ein verbrecherisches Komplott in deren Heimat? Oder hat jemand mit Abel noch eine Rechnung offen?

What happened to Mallory Shubert? Two detectives, both coming off of recent tragedies, are forcibly paired together to recover a missing child. But as they pull back the layers of the case, they discover more secrets, more lies, and more trouble than either are prepared to face. It’s a race to find the missing girl before time expires, but the detectives must overcome their personal trauma in order to succeed. The Girl in the Tide Mysterious. Fraudulent. Deadly.

Both shocking and spellbinding, The Victim Donor tells the suspenseful story of a family man who struggles to discover why he has become the focus of a gruesome kidnapping plot. Stockbroker John Harris III is living the American dream with Cheryl, his physician wife and college sweetheart. They have four young children, a house in the mountains of Utah, health, love, and money. But their lives are suddenly turned upside-down when Harris is mysteriously kidnapped one morning on his way to work.

In den düsteren Schatten der Vergangenheit gehüllt, kämpft Sloane gegen die Ketten ihrer Erinnerungen. Im zarten Alter von achtzehn Jahren einst entführt, wurde sie Zeuge von schrecklichen Grausamkeiten. Als sie sich auf eine Brieffreundschaft mit einem Gefängnisinsassen einlässt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie damit die Pforte zu ihrer eigenen Hölle öffnet. In einem Tanz aus Dunkelheit und Verlangen werden die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse verwischt, während Sloane sich in einem Strudel aus Leidenschaft und Rache verliert.

The disappearance of two children leaves a small Florida town in disarray. A suspect remains at large, and investigators are baffled by conflicting evidence and anonymous calls to the police station by their alleged kidnapper. With Halloween approaching, two detectives find themselves racing against the clock to find the children before it’s too late. They soon realize they are dealing with a madman who has plotted his vengeance against the town for years, determined to carry out his plans to the fullest.

Luke's week in the mountains goes from pleasure to business in an instant when he is called upon to help find two teenage boys–one the son of a multi-millionaire Starbucks VIP–who have been abducted at gunpoint during a wilderness survival school expedition. Their captors and the foreigners calling the shots behind the scenes are desperate for their ransom money and willing to do almost anything to get it.

"Jessica R. Patch weaves a dark, twisty tapestry that’s both unsettling and unexpectedly hopeful. Masterful." –New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan She bought this house to save her marriage. Unearthing its secrets might just claim her life. Gwen McDaniel’s life is broken...

Wölfe mitten in Rom? Mich beschlich ein schrecklicher Verdacht, wer dahinterstecken könnte, als Bill Conollys Sohn Johnny im Urlaub von den Bestien entführt wurde. Suko und ich machten uns gemeinsam mit unserer Wolfsfreundin Nadine Berger für den Showdown mitten auf dem Petersplatz bereit. Doch niemand konnte erahnen, welches Drama sich dort abspielen würde.

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.

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.

Nothing bad ever happens in the quiet little town of Hope. However, when the circus rolls in one misty morning in late October, everyone decides to go see what they have. Even the Jorgenson family and their 8 year old son Noah head on down to the circus big top, but when it is time to leave he is nowhere to be found. With the help of Sheriff Langley, his parents search the premises, but they don't find him. Now that it is closing time, they are forced to leave in hopes that he will come home. Will they ever find him and all the other children that have gone missing from other towns?

Ein grandioser, wuchtiger und emotionaler Gesellschaftsroman – das intensivste Hörerlebnis des Jahres! Der neue Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autor Chris Whitaker ist ein Meisterwerk: zugleich aufwühlender Kriminalfall und dramatische Liebesgeschichte. Patch ist dreizehn, und weil er nur ein Auge hat, trägt er eine Augenklappe wie ein Pirat. Als er eines Tages aus seiner Heimatstadt Monta Clare entführt wird, bricht für seine beste Freundin Saint die Welt zusammen.

Samantha Moore, una universitaria de Queens, de camino a Canadá con su novio para empezar una nueva vida cuando desaparece sin dejar rastro en un pequeño motel de Vermont. Su desaparición no es más que el último de una serie de extraños sucesos que han ocurrido durante décadas en los solitarios bosques de Vermont. Tras un macabro hallazgo relacionado con el caso, la agente del FBI Jill McDade es enviada a Vermont, donde su camino vuelve a cruzarse con el del veterano periodista Ray Wyatt, encargado de investigar el misterio en torno a la joven desaparecida.

Working for the FBI, cryptanalyst and agoraphobe Salem Wiley vows never to return to the conspiratorial underworld her mother revealed to her. Until fieldwork draws Salem to an Ireland farm where a curious discovery has been unearthed: a near-perfect replica of Stonehenge in miniature—except for one extra stone engraved with the word mercy. When seven-year-old Mercy Mayfair, a child in Salem’s family’s care, is kidnapped, Salem knows it’s more than an unsettling coincidence.

Few marriages survive what Sadie and Allen Wilson’s did. They were lucky—they had each other, and their kidnapped daughter was found, unharmed. Now, just as their lives are getting back to normal, their neighbor turns up dead. Murdered. And Sadie feels the panic surge all over again. But this time, she won’t have her husband to lean on…because Allen’s disappeared. As Sadie and the police try to piece together what happened, she begins to wonder if she ever knew her husband at all. The lies keep piling up, along with the body count.

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

Инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Алан Грант всегда с осторожностью относился к писателям и журналистам, — однако не сумел отклонить приглашение Лавинии Фитч в приморскую деревушку, облюбованную лондонской богемой. Очень скоро мирный, хотя и скучноватый отдых прерывает таинственное преступление. Бесследно исчезает красавец фотограф Лесли Сирл — и местная полиция тут же обвиняет в убийстве молодого радиоведущего Уолтера Уитмора. На первый взгляд, с выводами провинциальных служителей закона трудно поспорить.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

September Day’s new Family complicates her world. Ashamed, but resolved to set right their wrongs, she’s determined to dismantle the sinister crime syndicate before her cop fiancé discovers the tainted relationship.

When a past trafficking victim confronts her and demands immediate justice, she’s mortified with guilt. Outraged her loved ones are also taken by the killer, September agrees to the ransom. She relies on her German Shepherd Shadow to locate the missing but must reluctantly accept help from her new untrustworthy “Family.”