Kidnapping Thriller

You were the golden girl. The apple of your parents’ eyes. My beautiful, clever wife. I would do anything for you. But some things about me must stay hidden. One summer afternoon, it all begins to unravel. Because I’m not the only one with terrible secrets to hide.... And when the truth comes out, it seems we both have blood on our hands....

Dive into two dark stories of crime and murder from bestselling author James Patterson, and can be seen on ID, inspired by true crime horrors where murder isn't always the worst thing that can happen to you. Murder of Innocence: It's impossible to resist Andrew Luster. He's rich, charming, and...

For eleven-year-old Esme, ballet is everything - until her four-year-old sister, Lily, vanishes without a trace and nothing is certain anymore. People Esme has known her whole life suddenly become suspects, each new one hitting closer to home than the last. Unable to cope, Esme escapes the nightmare that is her new reality when she receives an invitation to join an elite ballet academy in San Francisco. Desperate to leave behind her chaotic, broken family and the mystery surrounding Lily’s disappearance, Esme accepts.

When homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily-wooded city park, the setting is all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed: There's a serial killer operating in the city for the first time in years. As the violence accelerates in Minneapolis, Magozzi and Rolseth soon realize their killer is planning to complete the deck, and they enlist Grace MacBride and her unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Software to help stop the rampage.

He's dedicated his life to saving missing persons, but will it be enough to save himself? Alex Mercer traded in his troubled past to protect the powerless. His blog for tracking down missing persons got his foot in the door at the police academy. But on his first day of training, a heroic act drops him into the hands of the captors he once hunted. Zoey planned to tell Alex how she felt the night he disappeared. As she and Alex's family discover the bloody signs of his fate, past regrets and dark secrets begin to come to light. It's enough to tear Alex's loved ones apart.

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.

Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she’s running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae’s finally in control—literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City’s elite in her private dungeon, which is fronted by a spa. But when a client goes missing, Rae’s world spins out of control.

In this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Out of the Ashes, an Islamic extremist is on a quest for vengeance after his only son is killed and it’s up to Op-Center to stophis lethal plot. General Bob Underwood—a special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition...

After centuries of destruction, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever in this thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Templar. Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an...

A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist on the classic western from "an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is...

It's been years since Zoe Fairchild has been to the small Devon village of her birth, but the wounds she suffered there still ache. When she learns that her old friend and grandmother's caretaker has gone missing, Zoe and her fifteen-year-old daughter return to England to help. Zoe dreads seeing her estranged mother, who left when Zoe was seven to travel the world. As the four generations of women reunite, the emotional pain of the past is awakened. And to complicate matters further, Zoe must also confront the ex-boyfriend she betrayed many years before.

It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s thirty-eighth birthday, and she’s alone in her office catching up on paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. Michael Sutton is twenty-seven, an unemployed college dropout. More than two decades ago, a four-year-old girl...

Arkady Renko returns in a gripping mystery involving a kidnapped baby with a mysterious teenage mother, a murdered prostitute, police corruption, and as always, the complex, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow. Investigator Arkady Renko is back on the scene, with a whole new set of...

A string of kidnappings involving young girls taken from bookstores and libraries thrusts a small town into panic. Mia, a single mother and detective, struggles to balance her homelife and work. Dedicated to protecting her family and her community, she hunts a predator, leading to the discovery of a secret bunker filled with children. Hailed as a hero for recovering the missing youngsters, Mia believes the case is closed. But then she receives a call about another missing child, and another, and another…

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.

The page-turning follow-up to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murder investigation to it’s even more shocking conclusion. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young...

Unabridged, 10 hours Read by Fred Lehne. The new thriller that's "a winner on every level." -Will Lavender, New York Times-bestselling author of Obedience...

Doch als Marissa Irvine zur vereinbarten Adresse kommt, wo ihr kleiner Sohn zum Playdate eingeladen war, erwartet sie ein Schock: Ihr öffnet nicht Jenny, die Mutter von Jacob. Auch kein Kindermädchen. Und von Milo hat die Frau, die dort wohnt, noch nie gehört. Eine fieberhafte Suche beginnt, doch der vierjährige Junge bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Wer hat der verzweifelten Marissa und ihrem Mann diese Falle gestellt? Bald machen böse Gerüchte in der Idylle des Dubliner Vororts die Runde, und eine junge Frau gerät ins Visier der Polizei.

Die Vergangenheit war nur der Anfang. Jetzt beginnt der Kampf um die Zukunft. In einer Welt voller dunkler Geheimnisse und altem Zorn gilt es weitaus mehr zu riskieren als das eigene Leben. Avery und Alexander glauben, sie hätten das Ende ihrer schlimmsten Albträume erreicht. Doch das Schicksal hat noch eine weitere Prüfung für sie parat.

La peor tragedia del idílico vecindario de Hemlock Circle ocurrió en la residencia de Ethan Marsh. Una noche de julio, cuando tenían diez años, Ethan y su mejor amigo Billy pasaron la noche en una tienda de campaña en el jardín. A la mañana siguiente, Ethan despertó solo. Alguien había rasgado la tienda con un cuchillo y se había llevado a Billy durante la noche. Desde entonces no se volvió a saber de él. Treinta años después, Ethan regresa a la casa de su infancia. Atormentado por pesadillas e insomnio, empieza a notar cosas extrañas en mitad de la noche.