Kidnapping Thriller

When young girls start to disappear, newly arrived prison psychologist Saskia Monet is called in to assist Detective Inspector Winter Labey. But Saskia has secrets of her own—ones that give her a unique insight into the mind of a criminal… As a fourth child disappears, a chilling ransom note arrives, along with wooden flutes left at each crime scene—echoing the haunting tale of the Pied Piper. Saskia is convinced the kidnapper's motives run deeper than they are letting on, but can she persuade Winter to trust her instincts before it's too late?

Christina must try and survive the torture methods of man and demons if she wants to see her beautiful girls again. The FBI is hunting him to save her and a local detective must hide his connection while tracking her down. His fight is with her mother and a past wrapped around the unknown killer. Will he beat the FBI in saving her ensuring his dream of becoming Chief in the small town or does the killer get to him first?

London 1900: Matilda Gray ist Lehrerin an einer Mädchenschule und führt das Leben einer unabhängigen Frau. Als ihre Lieblingsschülerin Laura nicht mehr zum Unterricht erscheint, ahnt Matilda, dass diese in Gefahr ist. Zu plötzlich ist ihr Verschwinden, zu fadenscheinig sind die Begründungen des Vormunds. Eine verschlüsselte Botschaft, die ihr Laura auf einer Postkarte schickt, bringt Matilda auf die Spur des Mädchens. Ihre Suche führt sie zu dem Historiker Stephen Fleming und mit ihm zu einem jahrhundertealten Geheimnis, tief hinein in die verborgensten Winkel der Stadt.

The gripping new Cristy Ward thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! Book 4 in the Cristy Ward series A terrible crime. A shocking confession. Do you believe her? Twenty years ago, Nicole’s twins disappeared without a trace. No bodies. No witnesses. Despite her pleas of innocence...

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.

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.

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.

The disappearances of multiple teenagers thrust a small town into a panic. One detective must confront a dark past to solve the high-profile abduction. It’s only a matter of time before the kidnapper strikes again, and the sands of the hourglass have already started sifting away.

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?

Panic grips the small town of Minneola, GA, when a young child goes missing at the lake. Newly paired detectives Jo Wiles and Mark Allen are assigned to the case....

DCI Warren Jones is deep into the investigation into an apparent murder-suicide when another case is thrust onto his desk. Winnie Palmer, missing for two months, has been found dead, her body stripped and propped against a tree in the woods. Two cases are more than enough to handle—but things get even harder for the team when they realise the cases might be linked. And when a third suspicious death is added to the pile, it raises a horrible question. Is there a serial killer on the loose?

One phone call. Two lives. Their darkest secrets. Lana needs to sell a holiday, fast. Stuck in Tenerife, in a dead end job, she never expected a response quite like Liam’s. Thousands of miles away a phone rings. Liam never intended to pick up - he’s too busy choosing the quickest way to die. But at least someone should know the truth before he goes, even if that someone is a stranger. As time runs out both are drawn to the other, expressing thoughts they never imagined they would share. When you’re about to die, will your secrets even matter?

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

Special Agent Ana Grey (familiar to Smith's readers from North of Montana) becomes both criminal investigator and criminal when she shoots her own partner during a Santa Monica kidnappiDid ng investigation.

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.

Lucys Liebesleben gestaltet sich schwierig, daher freut sie sich umso mehr auf die Hochzeit ihrer besten Freundin Amelie. Ausgerechnet bei den letzten Vorbereitungen für die Feier werden die Freundinnen entführt. Während die Polizei im Dunkeln tappt, findet Ben heraus, dass Amelies Verlobter erpresst wird, zudem deutet alles darauf hin, dass sie es bei den Kidnappern mit Profis zu tun haben. Die Drohung, dass die Frauen es büßen werden, wenn die Polizei eingeschaltet wird, nimmt Ben daher sehr ernst.

The constant threat of terrorism has left London under round-the-clock surveillance and in the tightening grip of privatised security firms. Journalist Antonia Conti suspects one such organisation—GRM—not only of being behind several women’s disappearances, but of financing the widespread violence it claims to fight. When a gang of hitmen use rampant state surveillance to track Antonia down, she narrowly escapes with her life. But then one of them turns up dead—covered in her DNA—and Antonia finds herself the prime suspect in his murder.

It was 1993 when Andy last saw his sister, Willow. One minute he was holding her hand, and the next, she was gone. Thirty years later, Andy has a family of his own, but he’s never forgotten his little sister. How could he? Her disappearance destroyed his family and ended his childhood, and with all the leads dried up and no new clues, he’s had to accept that she’s gone forever. That’s until he’s contacted by a woman who claims to have a message for him from Willow. Sceptical, but unable to resist trying anything, Andy meets up with her.